The Girl in the Painting by Kirsty Ferry

Author:Kirsty Ferry [Ferry, Kirsty]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Fantasy, ghosts, Historical
Publisher: Choc Lit
Published: 2016-02-17T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Seven

KENSINGTON

‘Don’t cry,’ the voice said.

‘Go away!’ Cori shouted, still sitting on the floor. She jerked her head up and stared around her. There was a faint glow from upstairs and her heart began thumping, thinking that Daisy was actually going to manifest herself there and then in her lounge. It took her a good few minutes to realise it was the timer light on the standard lamp.

Cori closed her eyes and let her head fall backwards. After a moment, she forced herself to stand up and managed to drag herself up the small staircase into the lounge. Her head spinning, she staggered over to the sofa and lay full-length on it. Too late, she realised she had left her gorgeous new squashy cushions downstairs but she couldn’t bring herself to raise her body from the sofa and retrieve them. She wanted to ring someone. She wanted to call Simon or her granny or anybody – but they’d all think that she was mad. And she had the worst room-spin ever.

‘You’re not mad,’ the voice said again.

‘Just leave me alone!’ Cori shouted into the empty room. She heard a faint sigh and pushed her face into the not-so-squashy cushions. There was a yielding noise and a creak as if someone was sitting down on one of her well-upholstered chairs and Cori caught her breath. Against her better judgement she lifted her head, terrified at what she might see. But there was nothing there; except the diary. And she couldn’t remember even putting it there, right in the centre of the seat. So she buried her head further into the cushions and screamed and screamed in the hope that she could simply drown it all out.

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