Haunt_A Grim Reaper Romance by Tricia Barr

Author:Tricia Barr [Barr, Tricia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-04-20T16:00:00+00:00

Nothing and nowhere was safe when I was by myself.

That night after Carmella went to bed, I took a shower, hoping the warm water would help me relax enough to sleep. I turned the water on as hot as I could stand it and stood under it for a long time, enjoying the feeling of disappearing into heat, of melting under the scalding water that ran down my body. Ah, there’s nothing quite as delicious as giving in to such heat. To feel your muscles contract as they struggle to escape, and then ultimately expand as they reluctantly submit was a wonderful feeling.

I closed my eyes, finally feeling like sleep was calling my name. Just a few more minutes of this and then I can go to bed.

Out of nowhere, something hard slammed into my hip. I buckled to the side, my balance abandoning me. My feet slipped on the wet porcelain tub beneath them, and I fell, my head smacking the tiled wall on its way down. Luckily my flailing hands caught hold of the shower curtain and stopped me from completing what could have been a fatal fall.

I pulled myself upright, praying that the curtains would hold my weight. I clambered out of the tub, looking around for whoever had hit me. Had Smooth’s men found me after all? Had they come to avenge their boss?

The bathroom was clouded with steam, but I saw no figure in the room with me. My head had been rocked by the wall, so my vision was a little blurry. Was that black smoke swirling with the steam on the floor?

I blinked forcefully, rubbing the mist from my lashes. When I opened my eyes again, the blackness was gone, the room a den of brightly lit steam once again.

The spot where my head kissed the wall smarted. I rubbed it, my fingers finding a bump there. I went to the mirror to take a look at it.

My heart stopped and paralyzed the rest of my body with it, my foot halting mid-step.

There was a message written in the fog on the mirror: “There’s no escape.”

As I gaped at the letters fingered across the mirror’s fogged surface, cracks branched through it like a bolt of lightning, making me gasp and jump backward. My horrified reflection was distorted as it looked back at me.

Before I could react any further, the light above my head glowed brighter, its electric hum growing louder. In an instant, it flooded itself with power and exploded, raining down tiny shards of glass over my wet scalp in the sudden darkness.

I screamed, blindly grabbed my towel off the wall and ran out. In a panic, I sloppily dried myself and slapped on some PJs. Then I rushed into Carmella’s room and climbed into bed with her.

“What’s the matter?” she asked groggily, half asleep.

“Bad dream,” I whispered. “Can I sleep with you tonight?”

“Um-hmm,” she hummed before rolling over and slipping back into slumber.

I pulled the covers up over my head and prayed for peace.

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