Heaven's Promise (Haunting Hearts Series, Book 2) by Rachel Wilson

Author:Rachel Wilson [Wilson, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ePublishing Works!

There was something wrong with this place. Julian, who no more believed in evil spirits than he did in the tooth fairy, felt something here was out of kilter with the rest of the universe. Something evil. He was uncomfortable even thinking the word, but there it was.

He eyed the sky again, wishing the sun would come back out. He looked at his watch.

Damn. It was getting on toward sunset. He didn’t want to be here after dark. More than that, he didn’t want Susanna to be here then. She was susceptible to whatever weirdness hung about this place, and he worried about her. So far she’d only had those blasted dreams in her own safe bed. He didn’t even want to think about what she might experience here, in a place that felt so evil.

The cabin looked like a two-room affair, and it leaned over farther than the McKenzies’ barn had. Julian didn’t detect signs that the cabin had ever been painted, but if it had been, it was so long ago that not even peels of paint remained. The roof had caved in in spots, the door sagged on its hinges, and the windows gaped at them like malignant black eyes. He didn’t see any glass in them; they’d been boarded over sometime in their history.

“There’s something wicked about that cabin,” Susanna whispered at his side.

She felt it, too. That didn’t surprise him. She was sensitive that way. He put his arm around her shoulder and was glad she didn’t resist.

Giving her a hug that he hoped was reassuring, he said, “Listen, Susanna, why don’t you wait here while I take a gander inside that place. It looks like it might fall down any minute, and I don’t want you to get hurt or anything.” It sounded feeble. He was sure she wouldn’t go for it.

She didn’t. “Not for all the money in the world, Julian Kittrick! I’ve come this far and I’ll not give up now. I have as much right to see what’s inside that cabin as you do.”

Exasperated, he said, “I’m not thinking about your rights, damn it, I’m thinking about your safety.”

He felt her shoulders shiver under his arm. She was so small, really, so delicate. He didn’t want her exposed to whatever was inside that building.

“I’d feel safer there than out here all by myself. And I don’t like the idea of you going in there alone, either. What about your safety?”

He didn’t much like the idea of going in there alone himself. He looked down to find her beautiful brown eyes staring up at him, and he fancied they were cloudy with troubling thoughts. He didn’t like that, either. He feared that if the outside of that blasted cabin reflected the inside, it just might scare the bejesus out of her. Shoot, she might even go into hysterics on him, and then what would he do? On the other hand, she could get hysterical if he left her alone out here, too. Damn.

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