The Haunting of Bonner Springs by Riley Amitrani

Author:Riley Amitrani [Amitrani, Riley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Beyond Original LLC
Published: 2019-06-29T22:00:00+00:00

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Darby got Melody back to her room and in bed, though she knew the impact of this event had just begun. She sat with her for a bit after telling her they would have a service for Bertie in the morning. She knew it would be painful for Melody, recalling how bad it had been for her as a child when she had lost a pet. She stroked Melody’s brow and finally doused the light when her breathing came back to normal, and it appeared as if she was falling asleep. She tiptoed down the hall and let Jasper know what would happen the next day as well.

“How, Mom? How could this happen? Bertie wouldn’t hurt a fly…”

“I don’t know, Jasper. We just have to make the best of it and go on, OK?”

He nodded, but the pain in his chest sure did not feel like “making the best of it.”

Melody listened as her mother spoke in Jasper’s room and as argumentative as she and Jasper were at times, even in the midst of her own grief and suffering, Melody was truly touched by how hard Jasper was taking this as well. She closed her eyes as a stray tear dribbled down her cheek before nodding off from fatigue and exhaustion. Melody slept for a while—how long she was not sure—before bolting awake again as the harsh memory of the night hit her once more. But she was all cried out. However, she listened again and just as before she was sure she was hearing some odd creaks and squeaks all through the house. She tried as hard as she could to tell herself that it was just an old house settling. And that worked until the footsteps began again. She knew everyone else was asleep. And she also knew that her Dad had searched everywhere. Was she going crazy? With that in her head, Melody finally nodded off sleeping until daybreak.

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