Haunting Helen (Book One in the Love Life Series) by Anne Seaworthy

Author:Anne Seaworthy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, ghosts, humor, fantasy, short story, pirates

Chapter Five

It’s nightfall, and I should be harvesting Dream with the crew. So I seep out of Robert’s brain. Before I take off, though, Robert calls from his bedroom, “Helen, dear?”

I have to see this. Maybe he’s about to reveal his inner abusive nature. Maybe he’s beckoning her to him so he can do unutterable things to her.

She pads into the room. “Yes, honey?”

“I feel rather strange, almost like I missed the whole day. I mean, I was there, of course, but it was almost like I couldn’t control what I was doing. I don’t know what got into me when I brought that woman here. I wasn’t even attracted to her. I just want you to know I’ll always love you with all my heart.”

Helen kisses him briefly on the lips. “I’m worried about you, Robert. Maybe you should take off work tomorrow and go see a psychiatrist or something.”

“No, I can’t do that. I already took off work today, and there’ll be hell to pay for that.”

“Okay, honey. It’s your life.” She kisses him again, and then turns to leave.

“And one more thing.”

She stops and turns around. “Yes?”

He scratches his close-cropped hair. “Don’t expect any muffins coming from these hands tomorrow.”

She giggles. “I won’t, honey. But I sure will miss them.”

I’m already in Apartment 338, so I might as well harvest Helen’s Dream. I enter her head at ten pm, when she’s been lying in bed for a while. Inside is a real nightmare.

In the Dream, Helen’s standing on the wedding pedestal in the palace from before. Robert is standing with her. But he’s making out with Raygin, paying no attention to his bride.

The crowd looks on with blank faces.

One of the dark trees leans in the window and taps Helen’s shoulder with a branch. “Didn’t I tell you this man was no good? Huh?” the tree sneers.

I’m just about to sweep Helen off her feet and figure out some way to take her to New Hawaii again, when she begins growing giant. Her tiny white shoes pop off her enormous feet, which are transforming into talons. She spreads her arms, and they become amber wings. Her pretty face morphs into that of a pterodactyl. She screeches at Robert.

He holds up his hands in a pathetic defense against her. But it is to no avail.

In a single swift motion, her monstrous head swoops down and grabs the man in its beak. She chokes him down.

The wedding guests gasp.

“Who’s next?” she demands, in a reptilian voice that chills me to the core. “Will it be you?” The massive head turns so the yellow eye is peering right at me.

It’s the first time I’ve ever woken up sweating from a nightmare that wasn’t even my own. Helen tosses and turns in bed, muttering to herself. I float down to her forehead and smooth away some wayward hairs. She brushes my hand away in her sleep.

I need to collect some Dream before I can reunite with my crew. And I’m not entering Helen’s brain again tonight.

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