Kiss of Darkness (as Shannon Drake) (v5) by Heather Graham

Author:Heather Graham [Graham, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MIRA
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

There was darkness. A very strange darkness. Not like ebony, not like a blackout. Officer Mendez couldn’t have said exactly when he began to notice it, because it was subtle. It was as if a shadow had descended. Not a real shadow, nothing with a shape or definable edges, just a strange, new sense and feel of darkness.

And then cold.

Officer Mendez knew his duty. Pure terror began to rip through him, but he had vowed he wouldn’t leave, and he wouldn’t. He fought his fear and approached the young man on the bed. He touched the boy’s crucifix, then noticed that the pillow was oddly damp.

Holy water? Had the lieutenant actually sprinkled the young man’s pillow with holy water?

Please, yes.

Mendez curled his fingers around the silver cross that protected his own throat. He began to pray aloud. “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death…”

It felt as if he were being strangled. As if the shadow had taken on a physical form and was attacking him, reaching for him….

“I will fear no evil,” he continued.

He closed his eyes for a minute, afraid he was about to lose it completely and go tearing out of the room.

He thought he heard laughter, it was gone as quickly as it had come. With it went the shadow, the sensation of cold. Gone as if it had never been.

He had broken out into a cold sweat, and he was shaking, but now he began to breathe more easily.

Then it came again. The laughter. He placed his hands over his ears, never thinking for a second to reach for his firearm. He knew it would be useless.

“I will fear no evil.”

Again the laughter drifted away.

This time it stayed gone.

Mendez sank into the visitor’s chair at the foot of the bed and looked around nervously. Nothing appeared to have changed. He thanked God he hadn’t given in to his fear, thanked God he hadn’t run screaming down the hall.

He sank to his knees and humbly begged God never to be given this assignment again. He was newly married, with a baby on the way. He had to live.

He stayed on his knees as the night progressed, wondering if he dared try to explain to Detective Canady that there had been a shadow in the room.

And that he was afraid it would come back.

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