Midnight Angel by Lisa Marie Rice

Author:Lisa Marie Rice [Rice, Lisa Marie]
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Erotic
ISBN: 1-4199-0313-6
Publisher: Ellora's Cave Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2005-08-18T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

I’m developing that sixth sense they all talk about, Allegra thought, as she practiced scales. She could practically feel Douglas’ will beating down on her. He was a very forceful man, but then she was a stubborn woman. She’d even exasperated her father, at times.

“Allie, me love,” her father had said once, throwing up his hands, “you could give stubborn lessons to a mountain goat.”

She blinked back tears at the memory, taking a hand off Dagda to swipe at her face.

Douglas wanted her to blind-proof her house, walk with a cane, learn Braille. She’d heard it all a hundred times before, from the doctors, from the nurses, in gentle tones from Suzanne and Claire and Claire’s father, not to mention from the assorted Mancinos who were taking turns looking after her.

It was a total waste of time because she wasn’t going there. No way.

Allegra wouldn’t be blind forever. She believed that with every cell of her body. She had a deeply superstitious fear that giving in and adapting would lock her into blindness forever. She couldn’t bear the thought.

The doctors in Boston had been clear about the dangers of the operation, but Allegra didn’t care. Medicine was advancing rapidly and soon the surgical procedure would be perfected and life would return to what it had been before…before.

Something dark and jagged winged by in her mind, unsettling her.

She shook her head, as if to loosen the sensation, and bent to Dagda. She limbered up with a scale or two, then cleared her mind to focus on her playing. She’d start with “The Cliffs of Moher,” she decided.

The spell came, as always, without any notice, slamming into her, dropping her instantly into the blackest of black holes.

…you stupid little bitch! I’ll teach you to talk about breaking contracts!

…you can’t talk to my daughter that way!

No Pops!

Blood. Oh God, the blood! So much of it, streaming out of his head in a dark black lake… Pop’s legs kicking, then suddenly going still…

She turned around, backing up, but there was no stopping him. He was coming for her…

She tried to run, but he caught her by a hank of hair, pulling so hard tears streamed down her face. A vicious yank and she slammed against the wall, blood drops spattering, oh God, she was going to die, too, just like Pops…

Allegra sat, stunned, overwhelmed by the sudden burst of images in her mind, coming up from some dark, dank hell. It was as if her head had been taken over by a monster.

There was a dark, satanic new edge to the waking nightmare—smell. She could smell the coppery metallic scent of blood and the fetid smell of death. It was in her nostrils still, even as the images faded, receding back into the hellhole they came from, like some dark hellish tidal wave leaving broken bits of horror on the shore in its wake.

Allegra stood up suddenly and then froze, paralyzed, heart pounding with panic but no way to work it off. She’d completely lost her bearings, with no sense of anything but up or down.

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