Midnight Magic by Sara Bourgeois

Author:Sara Bourgeois
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2020-04-21T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

By the time the movie was over, it was getting close to seven. "I need to head out,” I said. "Thorn is supposed to come over after work, and I think we have a lot of talking to do."

"I understand,” he said and kissed the top of my head. "I'm here for you if you need me. No matter how late."

"Thank you,” I said and left before I could get emotional all over again.

I drove home, trying to figure out what I was going to say. That wasn't exactly easy because I still didn't know what I wanted. What I wanted was time to sort things out, but Thorn wanted reassurances. I wasn't sure if that was something I had to offer him, but I didn't want to drive him away either. We'd talked every day for almost six months. If he completely turned his back on me, it felt like I'd have a huge hole in my life.

When I turned onto my street, I noticed someone sitting on my front porch. At first, I thought Thorn had shown up earlier than I expected and he was waiting for me. But neither his cruiser nor his truck was in my driveway.

As I got closer, I recognized it was Astra. Had she come to pick a fight? Was she there to confess and make things right by giving my bags and decorations back?

There wasn't a car in my driveway from what I could see, so either she'd pulled up really far, walked, or someone had dropped her off. When I pulled into the driveway, I saw that there was no car at all.

She was just sitting there on the porch with some sort of tropical-looking drink in her hand, staring at me with this creepy smile. It was unnerving, to say the least.

What was even worse was how fixated on me her glare was. She wasn't moving at all.

"What are you doing here?" I asked as I got out of the car.

Just then, Meri jumped into the window behind her. He was pawing at the glass frantically. "Let me out," I heard him call.

"What is wrong with you?" I asked as I walked up the steps.

What was wrong with him was that Astra wasn't glaring at me without moving. She wasn't moving because she was dead.

Not sure exactly what to do, I unlocked the door quickly and let Meri out. "Are you okay?" I asked. "Was someone in there with you?"

"No, no one's in the house,” he said and ran over to me.

I scooped him up and held him against my chest. "Who did this?" I asked. "Did you see who did this?"

"No. I looked out the window a while back and she was there. I didn't see anybody. I might have heard a car at some point, but I was up in the attic. When it wasn't you, I just sort of went back to what I was doing."

"I need to call Thorn,” I said and carried Meri down the steps.

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