The Wiccan's Curse by Gemma Jace

Author:Gemma Jace [Jace, Gemma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Marble Fox Publishing
Published: 2021-01-10T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 8

LUNA’S EYES FLUTTERED open. All her blurred vision could see was sheer curtains of violet hanging above her. Her mouth felt like someone had poured sand into it. Coughing, she struggled to sit up from the plush white linen. She rubbed her eyes and shook the cobwebs from her head. She scooted to the edge of the four-post bed, swinging her legs over the side and sliding down until her feet touched the soft purple rug. She fingered the silky garment she was wearing. No longer did she have on the beautiful golden gown, but instead, a lilac silk nightgown. Her hair toppled into her face as she peered down the length of the gown. Painted walls reflected the color purple in the mirror of a large white dresser. A brightly burning black kerosene lantern sat atop the dresser, casting dancing shadows across the cement floor. The room had three walls with paintings of horses running through fields of green. But the space that should have been the fourth wall were black steel bars. She was in a pretty prison.

She rattled the cage and shouted, “Let me out of here!” Looking through the bars to the other side, all she could see were other empty dark cells. “Hey!” she screamed.

“It’s no use,” a woman’s voice from the next cell over said. “No one is going to come.”

“Who are you?”

“I’m Mary. And you are Cleo’s newest victim. What’s your name, kid?”

“I’m Luna. What do you mean by his latest victim?”

“Cleo collects women he desires, and if they don’t desire him back, he puts them in a cage.”

“Wait... Mary? Mary Hickman?”

“Well, it would have been Mary Hickman, if I would have married the psycho. But when I found out the things he was doing to those poor cursed servants, I ran. He found me, of course. I mean, he only runs the entire town. Someone was bound to tell him where I was. So here I am.”

“What do you mean? What did he do to the cursed servants?” Luna had to know what his plans were for her.

“He wooed them into believing that he loved them. Thinking that he was going to marry them and their family would live happily ever after, they would give themselves to him. Once the girl got pregnant and gave birth to the child, he would lose interest in her and find another girl to do the same thing to.”

“That’s awful. Did he do that to the two cursed girls I saw?”

“Yes.”

“Why don’t they just leave? They could run away... unlike us.”

“He holds their children over them. He tells them that if they leave, they will never see their children again.”

“What a monster.”

“Yeah, you’re telling me. He keeps those poor babies locked up in a room in the attic, only allowing their mothers supervised visits once a day. I’m sure that was his plan for me, but I figured him out before he had the chance. I suspect that’s his plan for you too. You should have never come here.

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