Descended by Ingrid J. Adams

Author:Ingrid J. Adams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shawline Publishing Group Pty Ltd
Published: 2023-03-17T02:46:08+00:00

chapter eighteen:

the unforgiven

indigo

Indigo stared silently out the window, his stomach fluttering as they drove into Phoenix. He reached to adjust the air-conditioning vent. A searing heatwave had hit Arizona and he’d never felt anything like it, being so far from the coast where the heat was so dry it seemed to suck every last drop of moisture from the atmosphere.

“You don’t have to do this, you know?” Raf said, shifting his eyes from the road to glance at him. “No sweat, you can just wait in the car.”

“Yeah nah,” Indigo said, setting his jaw. “I wanna do it.” He was apprehensive and maybe even a little scared, but his curiosity overrode it all.

They pulled up outside a grand old house with overgrown gardens and a high black wrought-iron fence. He blinked and looked closer. He could see a sort of writhing inkiness streaming from the house.

“That’s it?” Indigo breathed, his stomach flip flopping as he gazed at the three-storey manor, its gabled windows dark.

Raf didn’t reply. He didn’t have to. Indigo could feel with every fibre of his being that this was it.

“My client’s not here yet,” Raf said, his eyes on the empty driveway.

Indigo laughed, short and sharp. “I deadset don’t blame the bloke.”

“His wife’s taken their two kids and moved to her mother’s,” Raf said. “She’s refused to set foot back in the house until he’s sorted it out. She wanted him to sell it, but he wants to exhaust all other avenues first,” Raf said, rubbing his chin.

“And that’s where you come in?” Indigo said, his eyes drawn to the silent house again.

“So this house,” Raf said, “was built in the late 1890s, but it’s been renovated since then.”

“And it started right away?”

“Yep,” he nodded, “the night they moved in. My client said they woke up to footsteps in the attic above their heads. At first they thought it was one of their kids, so he went up there to yell at them to go back to bed, but when he got there, it was empty and the dust on the floor hadn’t been disturbed. Anyway, this continued to happen night after night, unexplained footfall coming from above them. Then, a few days later, he was at work, the kids at school, his wife at home alone. And she suddenly hears this baby crying. She wonders if it’s one of the neighbours, but it sounds really close by, like it’s coming from the laundry. So she goes in there and the minute she walks in, the crying stops. And there’s no one there.”

Indigo stared at Raf, freaked out yet fascinated.

“So this continues to happen,” Raf continued. “She hears the baby crying, day after day, but it always stops when she goes into the laundry. By now she’s more than a little creeped out. And then, one day, she comes home after doing a big grocery shop and she puts everything away neatly in the kitchen and then she hears the crying again. So she goes to investigate. And of course it stops.

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