Twisted Echoes by Sheri Lewis Wohl

Author:Sheri Lewis Wohl [Wohl, Sheri Lewis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781626392724
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2014-09-21T04:00:00+00:00

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Darkness flowed over bluffs, and the Watcher stepped into it with the ease gained by centuries of practice. Wind whipped around his body, but he didn’t feel the cold or the damp ocean air. None of it touched him. It had been millenniums since the world of humans had been his to experience. Like so much else, the right had been stripped from him on the day of his fall. He’d like to believe that had he known the ultimate consequences of his actions he would have done things differently. In his heart he felt the lie. The temptations before him had been too great. He would not have changed a thing.

Now, he stared at the house and felt its emptiness in his heart. Though three still remained inside the sturdy walls, the old woman, the man, and the new woman who carried the child, they meant little to him. Lost souls did not, could not, touch them.

It was the one they called Lorna he searched for. She was the key and the savior. Not just for them but for him as well. Her absence at this critical time was alarming. Keeping the evil one at bay was taking every ounce of power he still possessed. When she was there, his job was easier.

The evil forces that worked against him took back strength once she left the house. Without her heartbeat to keep them subdued, the darkness stretched and reached out invisible fingers looking to take purchase. It was not good. He carried darkness in his soul during life, and in death became one with it. The Watcher could not allow him to win again.

He crossed the grass and stopped when he was next to the house. He peered into the windows searching for any sign of the spirit that troubled his soul. The reflections that gleamed back at him were of trees and a wide expanse of lawn. Of night sky, endless stars, and a round, buttery moon. His own visage was part of the reflection and nothing else. No ghostly apparition to give substance to his sense of unease.

Icy wind whipped around him, the tendrils of cold snaking down his back. It was not the air coming off the turbulent ocean, rather something far more frightening. It pulled at him as if knowing he could nothing without her, taunting his impotence.

With concentration, he blotted out everything around him and brought his own power to center. The best he could do alone was to gather as much strength as he could and push back. Around the edges of his being, he felt the pressure as the other returned the push, upping the ante by prodding and pinching. The evil one wanted in so that he could destroy everything once more. Death hadn’t lessened his need to control and to wipe out anything and everyone he couldn’t.

It would not happen. He would not allow it. No. Not again. Not ever again. This time it would all end and the evil would be forever banished from this beautiful place.

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