Playing Cards With Aliens by Erin Raegan

Author:Erin Raegan [Raegan, Erin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-27T16:00:00+00:00

“I should have probably told you something,” I said, so quiet Killian had to lean down to my mouth to hear me. Not that he had any other choice—I was plastered to him, gripping his arms and waist like a lifeline. “I get scared pretty easily.”

“I hadn’t guessed,” he drawled sarcastically, looking at the little moon prints my nails were leaving on his bare arm.

I winced, relaxing my grip, but then something in the dark field cracked and I nearly knocked him to the ground as I jumped closer to him.

“What—”

Someone screamed deeper in the dark maze and I leaped up onto him. Clinging.

Killian huffed a breathy laugh into my armpit, shifting my awkward monkey hold on his head so I was wrapped around his front. “They’re not real monsters.”

“I know that, but I can’t see anything and I know these assholes.” I had grown up with most of the boys who liked to scare at Peterson’s. “They’re really good at sneaking up on unsuspecting victims.”

Killian roared a laugh.

I slapped my hand over his mouth, searching the dark corn stalks. “They’re going to hear you!”

And no matter that it was makeup and tattered clothing, dozens of actors creeping through a pitch-black corn maze with the intent to jump out and scare the daylights out of me had me so on edge, I was trembling from more than the chilly air.

“We have to find the exit,” I told him as he carried me through the maze.

Killian laughed again. “As opposed to?”

“Asshole,” I hissed, wiggling down. “My fright is not for your entertainment.”

“Whatever you say, dear,” he mimicked Sal’s deep voice when he talked down one of Aunt Bets’s rants.

“You know, you’re the man. You’re supposed to be protecting me and stuff,” I grumbled, tripping over a rock.

“Oh? Protecting you from costumed monsters makes me a man?” he drawled, easily catching me.

“Yes. You’re bigger than me.” I waved him to the front. “You lead and scare them away so they don’t attack me.”

“Sweets, I will do no such thing. I’m enjoying your responses far too greatly.”

I grumbled under my breath as I held my hands out in front of me, feeling in the darkness for obstacles and hiding scary things.

Most people brought flashlights for a scary maze, but Friday nights at Peterson’s was for the older crowd. Black-out night. I had been so concerned about my night with Killian, I hadn’t given any real thought to where we were actually going. A rooky mistake.

Someone screamed again and then there was a high creepy cackle. I jumped and spun around, straining to see past the darkness. It did not help at all.

“I think we’re going deeper. This can’t be the way,” I mumbled.

“I thought the point of this endeavor was to go deeper,” Killian mused, a tad too far away from me.

I rushed to catch up to him. “No. The exit is often right next to the entrance. There should be a short cut.”

Killian was laughing far too much. And far too loudly.

“Maybe

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