Haunted House Fear by Riley Amitrani

Author:Riley Amitrani [Amitrani, Riley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-05-22T04:00:00+00:00

Blackpool, UK, December 24, 2016

Chloe Riddell had driven most of the day, and if not for the urgency of her trip, she was not sure she could have kept going. She had finished her university program only with the financial support of beloved grandmother, Emily. Chloe’s parents had been tragically killed in a freak airline accident while she has in her third year of school while her father had been attending a conference in Spain. Her mother did not normally accompany him in these regular jaunts, but for some reason she had gone along this time. Despite being shattered emotionally over the loss, Chloe was sure that was it for her education.

There had been some money that had come to her from the life insurance policy, but it had not covered her mother at all. That situation, coupled with the funeral expenses, had drained the vast majority of the settlement. It would allow her some meager living expenses, but there was no way it would even come close to paying the remainder of her school bills. She was about to call it quits when her Grandmother Emily stepped in. Emily was what today might have been termed a free spirit, but in her day, she was seen as rebellious…labelled the “black sheep” of the family and shunned. Her father had given up looking for her once he gone away to university himself, based on the lies his relatives fed him.

The family had written her off and he was told, erroneously, that she had died during one of her “wild trips”. In fact, Chloe had not seen her grandmother since she was about ten or so, and was crushed when she got the same line that was fed to her father. When this older woman appeared at her parents’ funeral she was rocked to her core to be reunited with her once again.

“Is it really, you?” Chloe asked as the woman first took her hands and then hugged her tight at the memorial service.

“It is dear…so sorry I let those bastards of a family we fell in with coerce me away from you.”

“Where have you been? What have you been doing?”

“Later, Chloe…this is not the time or place. Let’s honor your parents. Then we will talk.”

After all the furor of the services were over and all the dust had settled, Chloe and Emily sat and talked all night. Emily explained that she could no longer stay where she had been due to a lot of choices she had made early in life and how judgmental and disapproving all their relatives had been. She had made sure her son had enough money to go to school or pursue whatever it was he might choose in life and then just faded out of the picture.

“I know it may sound cold and heartless now, but they were taking it all out on your father as well. It was best for everyone.”

“Even me?”

Emily fell silent and winced.

“I know it was horribly unfair to you as a child, Chloe, but trust me, it would have been much worse otherwise.

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