Stormwood: A Haunting Paranormal Tale by Luna Mayfield

Author:Luna Mayfield [Mayfield, Luna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-06-04T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Beckett sighed as he watched Luci dig her flashlight out of her pack and walk deeper into the house. She was worrying him. He needed time to gather his thoughts. Either the house or the ring had done something to her, changed her in the short time she’d been there. It scared him to death, and he hoped he’d be able to figure it out before he lost her.

Not realizing he’d moved, he found himself standing by the window overlooking the lighthouse. Lightning lit up the sky and he caught sight of the woman again. He knew his eyes weren’t playing tricks on him; this was the third time he’d seen her. He stared at the spot she’d been, hoping she would still be there when the sky lit up again.

“Who are you?” he softly asked the young woman at the railing. She seemed so sad, so lost, from what he could tell in those brief flashes of light. He wondered if there was something he’d missed in the box, something that would tell him who she was.

“The box—I gotta find that box.” Mumbling to himself, he left the window and went down to the entryway.

Sitting down on the floor, he opened the box and slowly went through the items. He took the blueprints and lay them aside before carefully opening everything else. One paper he hadn’t noticed the first time caught his attention. It appeared to be a family tree that went back hundreds of years, listing births, deaths, and marriages. The odd part, however, was that it seemed to only list the deaths of the husbands and male children. “Well, what the hell is this?” he asked himself.

One entry stood out. Esther Marie Cabot married Captain Delacroix. He couldn’t make out the captain’s first name - someone had tried to scratch it out. Married 22 June, 1765. Lost at sea 30 October, 1772. There was a daughter, Grace, who was born 13 March, 1770 and died the same day as her father. Someone had taken the time to draw, in excellent penmanship, delicate flowers around the girl’s name. Did she go down with the ship? There was no further mention of Esther anywhere. “Is she the woman in the lighthouse?” he wondered aloud, though he had no idea why he’d think she was. The ghostly figure could have been anyone. Beckett searched through every paper in the box but found nothing more of interest to aid him in his quest.

The storm raged on outside the well-built manor and, in one crash of thunder, he swore he heard a woman scream. It brought him to his feet. “Luci?”

Realizing he had no idea how long she’d been gone, he pulled out his phone to call her. The ring by his feet told him that she didn’t have her phone on her. This wasn’t like her. She and her phone had an umbilical relationship. Hell, she wouldn’t even go to the bathroom without it.

“Fuck! Isn’t this just great!” He huffed, exasperated again.

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