Mary: Unleashed: Unleashed (Bloody Mary) by Monahan Hillary

Author:Monahan, Hillary [Monahan, Hillary]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Disney Book Group
Published: 2015-08-31T16:00:00+00:00

Mary blended into the trees. A decrepit dead girl ought to call more attention to herself, but the shadows were thick and the dirt smearing her clothes acted as camouflage. My manifested nightmare, five yards away. Staring. Waiting.

Her skull was more pronounced than I remembered. A pointed head covered by bulging black veins, the gray skin so thin along her cheekbones I caught glimpses of skull. A noseless void at the center of her face, receding lips exposing moldy gums and broken yellow teeth that looked as if they’d been filed to points. Her hair had fallen out except for a few dark strands above her temples.

And her eyes…

Her eye.

The left one was as black and as recessed as our last encounter. But the right was different. Film covered the pupil, milky tendrils threading out toward the whites, but I could see the iris underneath. Honey golden brown with dark rings around the edges. I knew that eye. I’d seen it every day for three years in someone else’s head.

Anna’s eye.

I took a step back, but I was stuck, sagging beneath Cody’s weight, far too close to Mary. “We should go,” I whispered. “Now.”

Mary stepped toward us. Her foot sloshed as it struck the ground, the flesh full like a balloon and bulbous at the ankle. It was engorged to the knee, where it appeared to taper, her dress hiding her thigh. Beetles darted in and out of the gashes covering her body. Lumplike shapes pressed on her skin from the inside as they wriggled to and fro.

Dell held her cane aloft like a sword. “Mary, we’re here to help you. We found your moth—” Mary lunged for her, arms lashing out, fingers curled over as if she wanted to peel Dell’s face from her skull. Her digits were spindly and bluish, but there were two that looked fresh—the ring finger beside the pinky was pink and plump, seamlessly blending into the rest of her parts. There’d been only one yesterday.

Dell whipped the cane around, bashing Mary upside the head. The ghost screeched, bumbling back and hissing like the turtle. “Run! Go south!” Dell shouted, whipping the cane around a second time, clobbering Mary in the knee. Mary growled, but she didn’t fall, instead advancing on Dell with wet gurgles.

Kitty took off running, pulling me and Cody with her. We moved fast, but not fast enough with Cody dangling between us. Cody knew it, too.

“Leave me,” Cody snarled, “I’m slowing you down.”

Terror choked any reply I wanted to make.

GET OUT, GET OUT, GET OUT!

We ran blind, hoping with every step to avoid traps and quicksand. I held my phone with my free hand, the compass guiding us in the direction of the car. Behind us, Jess screamed. I whimpered, scared for her and Dell. Scared for me and Kitty and Cody, too. The fear was all-encompassing—it was the only thing that mattered anymore.

Kitty headed right to avoid passing through bramble bushes with thorns the size of my thumb. Around a

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