Black Acres 04-In Darkness by Ibsen Ambrose

Author:Ibsen, Ambrose [Ibsen, Ambrose]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horror, Psychological Suspense, Paranormal Thriller, USA, Supernatural
Published: 2015-11-22T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

No one knows you're out here. You're a sitting duck.

Julian sipped at his whiskey, but couldn't keep his hand from shaking long enough to get a decent taste. He'd paced about the house a while, first calling out to Kim, then palming the phone and debating on whether or not to call 911. The thing in the window had gone when finally he'd rummaged up the courage to check, but that it hadn't wandered far he felt somewhat sure.

Evening was descending now.

He'd chosen not to call the police; short of dragging him to an asylum, there was nothing any officer of the law could do for him. The things that followed and haunted him throughout the property, if they were real at all and not mere hallucinations brought on by worry, were not things that could be harmed by bullets nor restrained by laws. Julian knew it, and saw at once the futility in involving outsiders. Under the circumstances, with his wife missing and his sanity slipping away by the moment, he knew exactly how it would look to them upon their arrival. He'd be suspected of foul play, would end up in a prison cell without any hope of setting things straight.

Sitting on the sofa, huddled beneath a mass of blankets with his whiskey in hand, he realized his current predicament didn't exactly foster progress, either. He was frightened, almost to the point of paralysis. The wind outside had picked up, could be heard to howl across the land, and it rocked the old house violently. In the drafts, which sometimes carried about them traces of dust from his kitchen renovations, he half-fancied he caught glimpses of specters, and would instinctively brace himself against the sofa as though it were an impenetrable wall; grip his glass as though it were a whiskey-soaked talisman.

Within twenty-four hours, Julian had become a broken man. He'd been happy as a clam in the house up until the previous day; it'd only been his paranoid, anxious wife who'd had a problem with anything. He shook his head, stifling a sob as he ruminated. Kim hadn't been wrong at all; she'd only been too right about the house. Something was the matter with it, and he was getting perilously closer to learning just what. The visions in the house of hideous things, the chase through the woods, the cavernous opening in the ground... all of it pointed to a dread plot the likes of which the two of them could never have conceived of even in dreams. And they'd walked straight into the center of it, unknowingly. He raked himself over the coals for not believing her sooner. For not taking Kim's warnings and fears more seriously.

But now was not the time for sorrow.

Julian set down his glass and then furtively pulled his phone from his pocket. Though it hadn't served him in the woods, it was working perfectly now, strangely. The battery was more than half-charged and the screen functioned without delay. The internet, though, was still spotty.

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