The Black Cat (Love Beyond Death - The Inns Book 2) by Elizabeth N. Harris

Author:Elizabeth N. Harris [Harris, Elizabeth N.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-04-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven.

Mariah

Mariah sat in her bedroom, stunned. Her mind sorted slowly through Benedict’s story. As fantastic as it seemed, she did believe it. There’d been too much detail for his tale to be anything but the truth. Somehow, Mariah knew she was meant to help Benedict despite his denials. She first needed to figure out whether any of Benedict’s siblings had survived.

She’d left Benedict in his room as they agreed to talk in the morning, as he thought he’d overloaded her and didn’t want her becoming hysterical. Mariah felt like they’d called a truce. Well, she hoped they had. There was a very evil creature asleep somewhere in the inn. Mariah suddenly realised that she had no idea where Benedict was keeping Vemis prisoner, and her skin tingled at the back of her neck.

With wide eyes, Mariah swept her bedroom, looking for any signs of disturbance. Where was the damn vampire buried? Hopefully, not in the four walls of her inn. Knowing she would be unable to sleep, Mariah drew on her robe and walked to Benedict’s door and knocked.

He opened it and looked puzzled.

“Mariah?” he asked, searching around for danger.

“Please tell me Vemis is not in the inn,” Mariah begged.

Benedict cracked a slight smile.

“No, he is not!”

“But where is he? You said he never left the Black Cat,” Mariah pressed.

“He is nearby and locked securely away. You’re safe from him, even should a single hair stir, Black Cat and I would notice,” Benedict replied.

Mariah searched his expression before nodding.

“Okay, goodnight!” she responded and walked off.

Mariah certainly didn’t wish to be close to a vampire, sleeping or not. But she didn’t believe Benedict was a threat to her. And if he said Vemis was secure, for some strange reason, she believed him. Benedict had guarded evil for hundreds of years. It wouldn’t make sense for him to release it upon her. Despite his feeling that he posed a danger to her, Mariah couldn’t quite see it. He’d had plenty of chances to hurt her but hadn’t.

She sensed Benedict’s loneliness when he spoke of his siblings and his worry about what had happened to them. Knowing he’d been unable to connect fully with the outside world, Mariah decided to try to find them. Searching google instead, she came across what the old ladies and Rose-Marie had told her. There was nothing about the Nortons anywhere. Shoving her laptop away and staring into the darkness of the night, Mariah wondered why.

Surely, even if their deaths had been mysteries, some remnant of their life should have remained. Something other than rumours around a village? The villagers knew their stories, so why wasn’t there any documented information? Something bigger seemed at play, and Mariah couldn’t understand what. She laid down in bed and allowed the day to sweep over her. So much had happened. She needed time to assimilate it all.

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Mariah put the phone down to Maggie and frowned. Maggie had requested a meeting with them at her hotel, and Mariah hadn’t wanted to refuse.

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