The Ashes (The Rebecca Underhill Trilogy Book 2) by Vincent Zandri

Author:Vincent Zandri
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Bear Thrills
Published: 2016-11-25T00:00:00+00:00

She never knew what lie beneath her bed as she slept.

Truth is, her worst nightmare had become real. A man . . . a devil-like creature that bore the mark of the beast . . . lying in wait for her underneath the mattress. But not just any man. A man who hungered for skin, for the raw flesh underneath it. For the taste of human meat.

He recalls all those days and nights lying on his back on a hard bunk inside a prison cell, staring at the faces of two little girls. Molly and Rebecca Underhill. They were his lover’s adopted daughters and how he so wanted to become a part of them. He wanted to dance with them, sing with them.

Ring around the Rosie, a pocket full of posies, ashes, ashes, we all fall downnnnnnnnnnnnnn . . .

He wanted to touch them, feel them, get inside their skin, press his little body beside their beating hearts, swim inside their veins in the warm blood. As time went by, he wanted to taste them, wear their skin over his own. He wanted to become them.

Only Rebecca has survived.

But she now has a new sister in the form of Robyn. And new children to care for — Molly and Mike Jr.

Lying prone on his back all night, under the bed of the sleeping woman, Skinner felt happiness and excitement. An excitement he experienced inside his hardness as he did inside his brain, which buzzed with electricity and adrenaline.

He smelled Robyn. Smelled her sex. He possessed that gift. He felt her flesh without touching it. Tasted her body without putting his lips and tongue on her.

Here’s how he stole her from right out of her bed: As the nighttime darkness became deep and impenetrable, he shifted his body out from under the wood bedframe-supported mattress. Then, silently situatedhimself onto his left side, he reached out with his right hand, his claw-like fingers slowly coming around the bed until positioned directly over her mouth. And then, just like that, he brought the hand down hard on her mouth.

He didn’t have to see her face to know that her eyes had opened wide in panic and fear. To know she was caught in a state of paralysis that existed the moment you are awoken abruptly, or when you wake from a vivid nightmare and the line between reality and dream is entirely blurred.

He slipped his thin, lithe body from out of under the bed, and used his extraordinary strength and ability to throw himself upon her, straddling her, pressing his hand over her mouth the entire time. He ran his free hand up and down the side of her body, tearing off her panties.

She tried to bite him, but she wasn’t strong enough. The pain would not have any effect on Skinner even if she managed it. In a very real way, he is already dead, and there is no killing the dead.

Pressing his hand harder over her mouth, he then clasped the index finger and thumb onto her nasal passages, cutting off the oxygen supply entirely.

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