When it Rains it Pours by K. J. Emrick

Author:K. J. Emrick [Emrick, K. J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: South Coast Publishing
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

The hospital in Meadowood was a place that Darcy knew all too well. She’d spent time here as a patient. She’d been attacked here by some very bad people, more than once. It was not one of her favorite places in the world.

It was also where Colby and Zane had been born. So, there were good memories here too, few and far between though they might be.

Now she was here for a totally different reason. Her heart was in her throat as she pushed quickly through the front doors and straight over to the information desk. Even at this hour it was staffed by a woman wearing a headset and tapping away at a computer keyboard. Colby was on the second floor, the clerk told her. The expression she gave Darcy made her wonder what other information was there on the computer’s screen. Nothing good, was her guess.

The image of the mists crawling around her house came back to mind, just like they had several times on the drive here. Her town had gotten its name from the ever-present fog that would cling to the ground like a smothering blanket. There were plenty of explanations for the recurrence of this meteorological phenomenon. Low pressure areas. High moisture content. Elevation, or lack thereof. Darcy had heard it all over the years while living in Misty Hollow.

She knew better. The mists came out when bad things were coming. The town could sense trouble. The very soul of the town had been rotten for over a century, and that was why bad things were attracted to the picturesque little community. Murder. Husbands being unfaithful. Wives in fear of their own sons. Ghosts, thirsting for revenge. Odd as it sounded Darcy had seen each of those things and more. Moving to Misty Hollow had pretty much saved her life, but at the same time it had put her in the way of danger time and time again.

Darcy had exorcized the worst of the taint—a malevolent spirit known as the Pilgrim Ghost—and after that it had seemed the mists were gone. For a short time, anyway. A few of her friends had even joked that the town would need a new name.

Then they came back one day when something evil had wormed its way into town. Now when they appeared, Darcy knew that bad things were happening again.

She whispered a prayer that the bad thing the mists were here for, whatever that was, didn’t involve Colby.

The hallway went past several doors, to offices or closets or whatever. Around a corner she found the stairs on one side and the elevator on the other. She took the stairs because in her current state of mind no manmade lift would ever move her as fast as her own two feet. The door to the second floor opened out into the middle of another hallway with a nurse’s station to her right. The corridor continued past that, and then branched in both directions to the patient rooms.

There

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