Ghouls Gone Wild by Victoria Laurie

Author:Victoria Laurie [Laurie, Victoria]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: PENGUIN group
Published: 2012-04-23T12:45:33+00:00

Chapter 9

“M. J.!” a familiar voice spoke next. “Jesus! Are you okay?”

I opened my eyes and saw Heath hovering over me, looking terrible. His face was a crisscross of angry scratches, his nose looked bruised, and one of his eyes was completely swollen shut. He also appeared to be gripping his left arm tightly. I sat up quickly and glanced around. Two halves of the remaining broom lay on either side of me, and a man holding a large ax hovered near my feet.

“I’m okay,” I said, trying to get my bearings. The man at my feet looked really familiar, but before I could place him, he turned and walked around the tree to the side to retrieve a ladder. I watched him for a moment as he placed it against the side of the tree and climbed quickly up to the lowest branch.

“I found him about five minutes ago,” Heath said. I looked at him and saw him staring up at the terrible sight of a middle-aged man with a blue face, a protruding swollen tongue, and bugged-out eyes. His body swayed grotesquely from side to side as the wind hit it.

I turned away from the awful scene as a wave of nausea threatened to make me lose my lunch, and focused on taking deep breaths. When I could talk again, I asked Heath, “What happened?”

“One of the spooks got me. I ran all the way to the edge of this lawn and I thought I’d lost her and started to double back to find you when one of the witches bashed me pretty good with her broom. She swung at my face first, which is how I got the shiner, and when I put an arm up to defend myself, she whacked me hard enough to break the bone.”

I gasped, looking up at him. “She broke your arm?”

Heath nodded. “I heard it crack,” he said with a painful grimace. “And that got me on my knees. That’s when she hit me on the back of the head hard enough to knock me out for a few minutes. When I came to, I managed to make it here and saw the lights on in the house, so I was on my way there when . . .” His voice trailed off and he didn’t finish his story.

“And that’s when you saw the dead guy?”

Heath nodded, his eyes darting up to the swaying figure, then quickly away. “I came around the tree and was leaning against it to catch my breath when I saw him. I felt his ankle and it was stone cold and stiff, so I knew there was nothing I could do for him. That’s when I went up to the house and got help.”

There was a loud thump, like someone dropping a sack of potatoes, and reflexively I glanced over to see the hanging victim crumpled into a ghastly heap. “I think I’m gonna be sick,” I groaned, closing my eyes tightly again and taking deep breaths.

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