The Paranormalist- Servants of the Endless Night by William Massa

Author:William Massa [Massa, William]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Critical Mass Publishing
Published: 2019-09-08T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Darkness held her, then spit her out like a rotten piece of meat.

Sara’s eyes fluttered open, her return to consciousness accompanied by an assortment of aches and pains. She squinted against the shadows that enveloped her. She tried to move and let out a groan. Her whole body was on fire, every muscle sore.

As sensation returned to her battered body, she realized that she lay sprawled on a hardwood floor. Another chilling realization followed this insight—she was naked. Whoever had kidnapped her had also undressed her while she was unconscious.

The thought of her demon-masked abductor taking off her clothes, of him looking down at her naked, vulnerable body while she remained dead to the world, shook her to the core. She tried to remember what had happened to her, but the images were fuzzy. Had her abductor violated her physically while she was out cold?

Her heart hammering against her chest, she recalled the masked figure materializing in front of her rental car and bringing the ax down on the driver side window. Her ears rang with the sound of the glass shattering, and her skin ached with the remembered pain of the sharp pieces spraying her face. A pair of powerful arms had reached through the broken window and effortlessly pulled her through the opening as if she was a little child.

And then, before she could even scream with horror, the demon-masked assailant’s fists had rained down on her, a furious barrage that pounded reality into a black smear.

Reliving the attack, Sara realized there was something familiar about that red demon mask with its twisted pair of ram horns. She’d seen it before, hadn’t she?

Sara tried to get her mind to work. Her face felt like twice its normal size. Gingerly she probed her teeth with her tongue, only to discover that two of them had been knocked loose by the vicious attack. Oh God, this couldn’t be happening.

A series of clicking sounds pulled her out of her thoughts. Abruptly, there was blinding light all around her.

Sara blinked and shielded her startled gaze from the harsh beams of light shooting down at her. Gradually her eyesight adjusted, and she saw that her attacker had placed her unconscious, naked body on the stage of an empty theater. Spotlights shone down on her from the catwalks above and revealed the rows of empty seats facing her.

As far as she could tell, the auditorium was deserted. But for a crazed moment, she felt like a phantom audience was watching her from those rows of empty seats.

Then she looked down at herself and screamed. Not only was she naked, but strange symbols and drawings covered her skin.

Identical to the ones on John’s shattered body.

Sara forced herself to focus on escaping this nightmare. She was inside the Croftmore Theater, that much was certain. A highlight on the North Bay Harbor Ghost Tour and another creepy location where they’d shot a segment for the show.

The place had made her feel deeply uncomfortable, and that had been during daytime hours surrounded by the hustle and bustle of a television crew.

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