Hallow & Hew: A Tenebra City Paranormal Monster Gargoyle Romance (Halloween Novella) (Tenebra City Series) by A. M. Kore

Author:A. M. Kore [Kore, A. M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-10-27T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER 5

Forget-Me-Not

Enclosed with this note is a sprig of angelica…

Your fingertips found their usual place around the pendant of your necklace, the sprig of angelica seeming to thrum underneath its resin casting in response to your touch. The branches appeared to bow and wave as you approached Erik’s studio, the line from your final letter from your mysterious pen pal suddenly popping into your head as the steeple came into view.

For the first time since becoming a regular phantom of the former church, you hesitated before pushing the door open, your palm hovering over the worn brass knob. Fingertips tingling, you turned towards the ivy, the vines cautious raising to creep towards your figure. A breeze wrapped around you, slithering through the fabric of the heavier jacket you’d chosen now that fall was in full bloom. When you shivered, it felt like the trees suddenly had eyes, and they were all now on you as the ivy crawled closer.

You’d been thinking of OperaGhost less and less these days. It didn’t escape you that the reason you were knocking on this door in the first place was because of him — because he had inspired you to chase your dreams and stay in Eventide Falls in pursuit of them — and for some reason, even though you’d passed through this door countless times before, this particular instant felt… different.

Maybe your reluctance now was because it had been a week since you’d seen him at the opera, both of your schedules having conflicted with another large order from Tenebra City on your end and a whole new slew of commissions from his. Modern technology seemed to completely escape Erik, so he wasn’t much for phone calls or texting. You hadn’t even heard his voice in nearly a week, and you weren’t sure what was waiting for you on the other side of the door.

You remembered thinking how the shift after your innocent pumpkin carving session was like right before the seasons changed, and just like the world was now fully cemented in autumn, what had happened in Box #5 that night seemed to have launched you and Erik into your own new season entirely.

But you didn’t know what season you were about to enter.

Fear is as detrimental to making that dream come true as failure is, you’d said to Erik, feeling a bit hypocritical now that you couldn’t seem to bring yourself to twist the damn doorknob. Your fingers twitched as the ivy slowly retreated, and you couldn’t help but think that your pen pal would be disappointed in you as you fought the urge to scratch at your scar; it was his wisdom, after all.

There was a strange flicker of guilt that seemed to accompany the edge of the next breeze. Though your correspondence had only been in letters, they were a significant part of your life, and they’d somehow brought you to this very doorstep. You couldn’t explain it, but it was as if some portion of you knew that

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.