Vicious (Haunted Stars Book 2) by Lindsey R. Loucks

Author:Lindsey R. Loucks [Loucks, Lindsey R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-08-29T16:00:00+00:00

11

Before lunch, Mase helped me clean up the dining room while Poh and Randolph went to the infirmary for another gurney table. We probably should’ve stuck with it in the first place, but our hope that the ship had been cleared of all threats had clouded reality. Lesson learned.

Despite the crew’s continued search for the doppelganger, it hadn’t been found again. I had a feeling it wouldn’t be found until it was good and ready, and then it would likely find us.

“This is why we can’t have nice things on this ship,” Mase muttered at the pile of table and broken dishes. “Except you, of course. You’re extra nice.”

“Only to you.” I handed him a garbage bag but not because of my niceness. “I’m going to make cupcakes for dessert tonight. If you’re lucky, I’ll leave a special one on your chair with hearts all over it.”

He took my wrapped wrist, and I stiffened, hoping he wouldn’t ask about it. Or why I had wrapped another rag next to the first. With everything going on lately, I refused to voice what was happening—the scales were slowly spreading. It was stupid, but I couldn’t handle any more more terror. Not right then. But I would deal with it, and soon.

Mase dropped a kiss on the top of my head, the ends of his blond hair tickling my nose. “I knew there was a reason I love you.”

“Well, you should.” I gently unfolded myself from his grip, my gaze pinned to his lit-up arm under his heavy coat. “Remember when you thought you saw Parker on this ship? In the hallway when it was still haunted?”

His jaw muscles twitched, and a swatch of hair tumbled over his cloud-laced eye. “I remember.”

“I told you that I passed him through me, but…that wasn’t true. It wasn’t him. It was the ghost of the old captain on this ship. You saw Parker, but it was that thing, that doppelganger, I think. Which means it was here with us long before we stopped on Orin.”

Mase nodded. “I didn’t see him—it—before we stopped on Mayvel to hire a new chef.”

Could the ship have picked it up around the same time I boarded? Had it been hiding in the air vents this whole time, and we’d been too distracted by ghosts to notice? Yet again, the question of why beat at the back of my head. What did it want? And why did it want us dead?

“I have another gun in my quarters I could give to you if you’d rather have that than two ice picks.” He’d already tucked the one attached to the table rubble into the back of his pants. “For more protection.” He gazed at me while absently trying to open the wrong end of the garbage bag, the hand of his lit arm trembling.

He was always trying to protect me, had been since he’d gifted me iron all those weeks ago, and I loved him even more for it. I pushed up onto my tiptoes and kissed his scarred cheek, distracting him so I could take the bag away from him.

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