Mama's Charm by Luxie Ryder

Author:Luxie Ryder
Language: eng
Format: epub

Mama’s Charm

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I touched his shoulder in reassurance, deciding at that moment never to tell him what he had actually done and how much it had terrified me. ‘Can you remember anything else?’

He shook his head. ‘Nothing that makes much sense. There was a face. A guy I have never seen before. He said something— I think it was a name—over and over. He loomed above me as I lay in your bed, getting nearer.’ Wade shuddered, remembering more. ‘He was so close I could smell his foul breath as it wafted over me. His teeth were rotten, jagged stumps and I could see them as he opened his mouth wide, really wide, like he wanted to bite my face off.’ Wade stopped talking, staring up at the ceiling as if seeing it all again.

‘Was the name Clairvius Douyon?’ His shocked stare confirmed what I already knew.

‘How did you know?’

‘You said it over and over, and it’s the name of the bokor Mama told me Cindy had visited.’ The color drained from his face. ‘So, do you believe me now Wade?’ He didn’t answer but then I didn’t really expect him to. I knew it would take some time for either of us to accept what we had actually experienced. ‘What happened then?’

‘Just more dreams, weird ones, I guess. I don’t really remember them. The next thing I know, I am lying naked on Mama’s table,’ he said, looking through the doorway at it. ‘I asked for you and she brought me in here.’ He laughed. ‘The way she eyeballed me was scary, like she wanted to eat me alive. I sure didn’t want to go into the bedroom with her with only a blanket wrapped around me.’

‘Mama may be old but she has an eye for the men. You had a lucky escape,’ I teased.

‘You don’t know how relieved I was to see you sleeping here. I wanted to wake you but she said you needed rest.’

I nodded. ‘I don’t know what she did to me. When I arrived last night I was almost hysterical with worry. She made me lay on the bed and the next thing I knew was when you woke me just now.’

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