Twisted Screams by Sheri Lewis Wohl

Author:Sheri Lewis Wohl [Wohl, Sheri Lewis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781626396487
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2016-07-17T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

The room was dark, the beds empty, the air cold and it reeked of a bitter disinfectant. The smell was so intense it made her eyes water. A flicker of light made Sadie’s head snap around, and she sucked in her breath. Could she be going crazy? She’d never been one to see things before so the most logical answer was yes.

In the corner shrouded in shifting shadows, Rose sat at a writing table with a small journal open in front of her. A small lamp with a flickering bulb threw a little light across her face. She held a pen midair in one hand and with the other held down the corner of the journal. Her hair was pulled up and pinned in a sloppy knot on top of her head, tendrils of dark hair curling damply around her face. Under other circumstances, she might have looked pretty. In the off-and-on glow of the lamp she looked sad. Her skin was pale as a ghost, which nearly made Sadie laugh because she knew the only thing Rose could be was a ghost.

“Rose,” Sadie whispered and was surprised how loud her voice sounded. It was as if she was in an alternate dimension where no echo or reverberation existed. As weird as everything was around her, she wasn’t expecting to hear herself speak.

Rose turned her head and her eyes met Sadie’s. She jumped as shock thundered through her body. No way, it couldn’t be. Yet she was certain it absolutely was true. Rose knew she was here. She could hear Sadie’s voice just as she could hear it herself. Somewhere in this bizarre nightmare, she had become a ghost whisperer. With an insane little laugh, she wondered if she could put that on her resume…provided she ever emerged from this rabbit hole. This experience could spawn her very own reality series.

“Yes,” Rose said quietly as she turned her entire body in the small chair so she was looking directly at Sadie. “I am so glad you have finally arrived. I have been waiting a very long time for you, my dear.”

“You see me?” Her question was barely above a whisper. Sadie still couldn’t quite wrap her head around the idea that she was having a conversation with a ghost. The notion that perhaps she really had hit her head and now her hallucinations were taking on sound was seizing on a pretty strong foothold.

Rose nodded slowly, and a smile fleetingly crossed her face. “I see you very clearly indeed, my child.”

My child? Why, the ghost in front of her couldn’t be much more than a year or two older than Sadie. Child wasn’t exactly an accurate characterization. “You hear me?”

She smiled again and this time it didn’t fade away, her teeth straight and very white. But the beautiful smile didn’t erase the deep lines of sadness in her face. “I hear you as well. You have a very lovely voice. I am so glad.”

“Why?” Sadie was so stunned it was all she could do to get the one word past her lips.

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