Avarice by Hildred Billings

Author:Hildred Billings [Billings, Hildred]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Lesbian Romance
Publisher: Barachou Press
Published: 2020-07-07T22:00:00+00:00

4

The night enshrouded Mercy’s neighborhood when she arrived home. As she parked her car and let out a mighty sigh that did nothing to alleviate the butterflies in her stomach, Mercy said a silent prayer to whatever deity may be listening that she survived the night. A part of her may have been afraid to fall asleep to nothing but chaos in her mind – and her body.

She finally approached her front door, key in hand. The automatic light turned on above her. A figure was briefly illuminated in her house.

She should have been more frightened as she unlocked her door and stepped inside. Just because she had a feeling she knew who had come to call, did not mean she expected to see…

Whatever the hell this was!

Her house was ransacked. Or at least it sure as hell looked like it. Papers and flowers were left strewn across the floor of her front hallway, leading into the living room, where shelves were overturn and books fell out of their cases. Mercy rushed into the kitchen where every drawer and cupboard was opened, save for the fridge – and when she opened that, behold, half of her food was gone!

“What the flying fuck?” Burglars! Lots of them! Mercy whipped out her cell phone, prepared to call the police.

Something thumped upstairs. Mercy froze in place.

They were still here! Still robbing her shit!

Rage! For the first time in so long, Mercy experienced true rage. She picked up a knife from the kitchen counter and bounded upstairs, the irrational side of her intent on stabbing a burglar to pieces. If only she had her bat…

She didn’t get two steps toward her bedroom when an orange light blinded her.

“Shit!” Mercy dropped the knife and covered her eyes. A familiar voice cooed from the master bedroom.

“What lovely items you have, Mercy! Ooh! Jewels! Ah! This expensive perfume! I can have it, yes?”

The light faded. Mercy slowly opened her eyes, and followed a trail of orange fabric into her bedroom.

Avarice stood in her orange two-piece gown, surveying Mercy’s vanity and spraying perfume into the air. She admired diamond earrings in the mirror. That bun of hair perched atop her long face was encrusted with tiny crystals that hadn’t been there in the lounge. Mercy would have remembered. Probably because those were her tiny crystals she had last worn to Marissa’s birthday party!

Avarice’s long limbs, enshrouded in the hypnotic yards of orange silk and patches that had also eluded Mercy’s eye only an hour before. Avarice twisted, fabric twirling around her legs and expanding across the floor. From the way she looked at the items on Mercy’s vanity, she was far from thinking about her own appearance.

“Excuse me!” Mercy stepped into the room, but dared not advance on the crazed goddess with large, dilating pupils that threatened to absorb every item in the room. “What the hell are you doing? That’s my shit!” She didn’t have much since Marissa left with half of the house’s possessions, but Mercy was not in the mood to lose what little she had.

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