Half-Moon Lake by Leanna Sain

Author:Leanna Sain [Sain, Leanna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, suspense, mystery, NC mountains
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Published: 2017-05-05T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

My nightmare was totally different this time. There were no butterflies, no school bus, no vines…really, the only thing it had in common with my usual dream was the terror.

There was plenty of that.

The biggest and most obvious difference between this dream and my usual one was this time, Kenna was alive. That, in itself, was disconcerting. I hadn’t even known I’d had a twin sister until two days ago and now I was dreaming about her? Granted, Kenna had always been in the other nightmare too, but I had never realized that. I’d thought I was viewing myself as a child.

It was winter again. I could see bare-branched trees behind the house. Kenna and I were searching for something—something very important to the both of us—calling and calling, peering behind bushes, peeking over walls, parting dried out flower beds. The longer we searched, the more frantic we became.

That’s when we spotted the blood.

It was just a drop or two at first, but it quickly became a very visible trail. We followed it with growing horror on our identical faces. Where would it lead? Though afraid, we couldn’t stop ourselves from tracing that crimson line to its source.

When the trail ended, we found what we’d been looking for…our beloved kitty, Boots. He was hanging by his tail, his stomach split open. All his insides lay in a bloody pile under him. The sight caused us both to gag and vomit, tears streamed down our little faces. Our arms wrapped around each other in our misery as we tried, in vain, to help the other through the horror and grief, to hold each other up.

Looking over Kenna’s shoulder into the thick rhododendron bushes that didn’t shed their leaves, even in winter, I spied the outline of a figure. I couldn’t tell who it was, but I could hear the laughter.

When I woke up I was nearly hyperventilating. It took several minutes and all of my concentration to get my breathing under control; then several more minutes convincing myself that it was just a dream.

But was it?

Had I just re-lived something that had actually happened? Levi had mentioned the cat story not being appropriate dinner conversation. If what I’d just dreamed was what had really happened, then his comment was a huge understatement.

It also meant my mental life preserver was unreliable.

I sat up in bed, pushing my hair out of my face and stared toward the lace-covered windows. The sky was blushing pink, telling me it was time to get up. The sooner I got out of bed, the sooner I could put that dream behind me. I couldn’t allow myself to dwell on it; there was work to be done. I began a mental to-do list. Getting the mess cleaned off my father’s desk was number one.

But as my mind was cataloging numbers two, three and four, Cass’ face swam into view. After last night’s conversation with Levi, talking to Cass zoomed past all other chores to the very top of the list.

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