The Haunting of Gull's Nest House by Cat Knight

Author:Cat Knight [Knight, Cat]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-01-20T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Amber whirled. Fake-Jeremy stood ten steps away.

“How did you get in?” she asked.

“You let me in.”

“I most certainly did not.”

“Of course, you did. How else could I be here?”

“I don’t know, but you’re going to tell me.”

“I was here. I helped search those rooms. I helped you tie up the doors. I’ve been here all along.”

Amber shook her head. “You can’t play that game with me. I know you weren’t there.”

“Oh, but I was, I was all the time. You made me up, remember? I’m what your addled, small mind decided would be a stand-in for the brother you hated.”

“I did not hate my brother.”

“Of course, you did. He was a successful writer, and what are you, some sort of low-level clerk.”

“I am not a clerk. I work in human resources, and I’m very good at my job.”

“You’re very good at making up people. You just slap some traits and eyes together, and viola, you have a new entity to belittle.”

“I don’t make up people, and I don’t belittle them, although I’ll make an exception in your case. Tell me who you are, before I call the police.”

“I’m Jeremy. You know that. You make me just like him.”

“I did nothing of the kind. Where were you hiding?”

“I come and go when you say so. I don’t have to hide…or am I always hiding? I really don’t know.”

“If I made you, can I make you go away?”

“I would think so.”

“In that case be gone.”

“Are you sure?”

Amber shook her head with a smile. “You can’t be gone, because you are not some emanation from my brain. You’ve been acting mad just to see what I would do. Well, I’m going to show you what I’ll do. I do hope you wait around long enough for the coppers to arrive.”

Amber pulled out her mobile.

“You know, you’ll conjure me back up again in five minutes.”

“When the coppers get you, you’ll tell them how you pushed Jeremy over the cliff.”

With a shrug, the man…disappeared.

Amber gaped, staring at where the man had just been. A voice asked her to state her business. She was totally at sea.

“I…wrong number,” she mumbled and killed the connection.

Slowly, she shuffled forward, wary. The man was gone, totally gone, as if he were the assistant in a magic act. She reached the spot where he had stood and looked in all directions, even up and down. No man, no sign of any contraption that might have whisked him out of the room in the blink and an eye. It couldn’t be, but it was. Like a puff smoke. He was gone.

Amber shook. Where had he gone? Had he ever been there? She tried to think, but her brain didn’t want to work. If he was an Amber-made figment, why didn’t she remember creating him? Why did she make him like Jeremy? If she couldn’t remember conjuring up the bloke, what else couldn’t she remember? What else might the bloke know that she didn’t know? Had she blocked out some of the things she had done?

No, no, no, no.

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