Heart of Glass by Zoey Dean

Author:Zoey Dean [Dean, Zoey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: JUV014000, (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯)
ISBN: 9780316041614
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2008-07-31T14:00:00+00:00

Room 928

“Room 928?” Jack asked the clerk behind the carved wooden counter, who wore a black suit and a name tag identifying himself as Ji Min. “I specifically requested 928.” “Let me check, sir.” As Jack dealt with the clerk, Dee surveyed the hotel lobby. In all the time she’d been in Los Angeles, she’d never been inside the Hotel Roosevelt on Hollywood Boulevard, though she’d driven past it countless times. The lobby itself had an enormous four-story ceiling, marble fixtures, and sleek black furniture. When she looked up, she saw a marvelous crystal chandelier old enough to be the original. Maybe it was the original—on the ride over, Jack had told her that the hotel was eighty-five years old. He’d also told her that it was supposedly haunted.

Was she up for an adventure? Always.

Dee had chosen her clothes with a sex-with-ghosts kind of theme. Her Stella McCartney baby doll dress was constructed from translucent ivory silk. At certain angles, when the light hit her just so, she almost appeared to glow.

“Okay, here you go.” Dee saw the clerk hand over an envelope with a key card. “Room 928 it is. Enjoy. If there’s anything we can do to make your time more enjoyable here, let us know.” “I will,” Jack assured him.

“What’s so special about room 928?” Dee asked Jack smiled and wriggled his eyebrows mysteriously.

“You don’t know the story?”

On their way up in an elevator as modern as the hotel was classic, Jack told Dee about the legend of room 928. Supposedly, the actor Montgomery Clift had lived in that room back in the 1950s, back when he was filming From Here to Eternity with Natalie Wood. Soon after the hotel was renovated, people who stayed in 928 began reporting a peculiar presence. One woman swore she had been reading in bed, felt a tap on her shoulder, turned over to say good night to her husband, and realized that it couldn’t have been her husband, because he was snoring with his head under the quilt.

Another time, a psychic awoke at five in the morning to see a shadowy apparition that resembled the silhouette of Clift sitting in a chair near the door. But the chair hadn’t been anywhere near the door when he went to sleep. The psychic reported that the ghost stood and glided into the bathroom. There it disappeared.

These stories didn’t make Dee nervous. Actually, they thrilled her. There’d been a time in her life when she’d loved the paranormal and the occult. This visit to the Roosevelt was bringing all that back.

Room 928 was the last one on the right at the end of the hall. Jack opened it with his key card. Then, with no warning, Dee felt herself being swept up in his arms and carried over the threshold of the doorway. She giggled.

Five minutes later, they were “adventuring” all over room 928, kissing on the white-draped bed with the round French-style green bolster pillows, the matching white love seat, and even the window ledge that looked out over Hollywood Boulevard and the hills beyond.

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