MAGDALENA'S GHOST: THE HAUNTING OF THE HOUSE IN GALLOWS LANE by PEPPI HILTON

Author:PEPPI HILTON [HILTON, PEPPI]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Patricia Thomas Agencies
Published: 2015-05-21T23:00:00+00:00

10

A couple of days passed without incident, by which time Lucy had finally come to the conclusion that she must have been allowing her mind to get over-imaginative. It all seemed too distant from reality as time moved on and it was easy to imagine none of it had ever happened. After all, she hadn’t actually seen anything.

She’d never taken to Juniper House from that first time they’d accidentally come across it, accentuated more by the old woman in ragged clothes who had stared back at her suspiciously from the foot of the stairs. As she’d peered through the pane of glass that day, she was horrified to think that someone lived in such squalor and even worse that they had been trespassing on her land. Anton was convinced that she’d seen her own reflection through the grimy window, which had probably become distorted due to lack of clarity. But Lucy, whilst she accepted that possibility, had always had doubts. Anton didn’t seem to understand that she hadn’t just seen a face – proving his reflection theory – she had seen a figure wearing ragged clothes, so how could he explain that? He couldn’t and nor did he want to. He had grown impatient with her insistence that it had really happened and she had enough sense to drop it when she did. His only thoughts were about buying the place and nothing would deter him.

However, it was also feasible that she’d allowed paranoia to take over from that first experience and she’d let it feed her imagination, so there was a strong likelihood of Anton being right – after all, he nearly always did end up being right about most things. He was so laid back about everything and never got wound up, and he certainly didn’t have an over-imaginative mind like she did. She’d never seen him angry – frustrated at her sometimes maybe, but never angry. He was, in her terms, cool, calm and collected and always in control. As she dwelt on his good points, of which there were many, it reiterated why she’d fallen in love with him from the very beginning. He was very meticulous about everything he did, and he never started a job without finishing it and it had to be perfect before he would call it complete. It was no wonder that she had built up the utmost confidence and trust in everything he said and did, convincing herself that he knew everything. She knew she leaned heavily on him to make all the important decisions in life, and by doing that she risked becoming a weak and fragile personality in herself, but it worked between them and she wasn’t looking for change. She felt comfortable with him around and he was her tower of strength. No wonder she missed him when he wasn’t there.

But what if this time he was wrong and the face had been real? The same old doubts still nagged and nagged – and yet, there was no other sensible conclusion without reverting back to the notion that she was hiding in the attics.

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