Phantom Bride by Cach Lisa

Author:Cach, Lisa
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, paranormal, england, gothic, historical, ghost, spirit, haunted, castle, ghost lover
Publisher: Lisa Cach

He was dreaming.

He stood at the entrance to the castle garden, the walls only partially ruined, the grounds covered in a meadow of sweet wildflowers and grasses. At the end of the garden, the cherry tree stood in full bloom, its trunk slender with youth, its branches long and limber. Beneath the tree, in dappled sunlight, sat Serena.

He walked through the grasses toward her, blue butterflies flitting around him, bees humming in the yellow and pink flowers. As he approached, he saw that she wept.

He went down on one knee beside her and reached out, brushing back one of her tangled locks and tucking it behind her ear. She turned her face away, but he placed his fingertips on her chin and turned it back. Her skin was warm to his touch, supple, alive. Her lovely face was blotched from crying, her eyelids red and swollen.

“Serena, what is it? What has happened?” he asked.

“Dead, all dead,” she said.

“Who is dead?”

She wept, shaking her head.

“Who is dead?” he repeated.

“We all are,” she said at last, her eyes meeting his. They were black again from lid to lid, leaking diamond tears. She held up her hands, and when he looked at them they were coated in crimson blood. “I killed us all.”

He woke with a start, his eyes coming open to the darkness of his curtained bed. It took him a moment to realize what was amiss: Serena. The familiar sense of her and the softly illuminated glow of her presence were gone.

Her worries about the shadow conjured by Madame Zousa leaped immediately to mind, and fear for her ran like lightning through his body. He yanked back the bed curtains and leaped out of bed, throwing on his dressing gown as he ran across the room to the hall door. He had to find her.

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