LordoftheNight by Robin T. Popp

Author:Robin T. Popp
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter

9

We’re almost there.”

Erik heard Kacie’s voice call to him where he lay in the back of the hearse. He was in the casket with his face covered by the drape they’d “borrowed” from the church. He gave her credit for creativity. Though he wasn’t crazy about riding in a casket—it was a little too Lon Chaney for him—it had kept the light off him.

She’d rolled the casket right next to the fort and then made a tunnel to it using a couple of additional pews that she’d dragged over and the sheets she’d taken from the funeral home. She’d called it a modification of the “fort” game, which she called “tent.”

He knew she’d never played either game growing up at the castle and when he’d asked her about them, she mumbled something about watching Ben’s nieces and nephews play. The mention of the man’s name had not helped Erik’s disposition any, but when he’d opened his mouth to ask her about him, she’d closed the lid of the casket, effectively silencing him.

Now he felt the hearse slow down and come to a stop. Kacie’s voice shouted to him from the front. “We’re home. Can you lower the viewing lid yourself?”

“Yes.” He steeled himself against the feeling of claustrophobia and told himself that he wasn’t suffocating. Besides, it wouldn’t be much longer.

A minute or two later, he felt the casket moving. They’d already discussed how to get it into his apartment and when he felt it stop, he knew she was running around to the stable for the planks of wood she’d use to make a ramp down the steps leading to the door of his apartment.

He still worried about how she was going to get him inside because the casket with him in it was much too heavy for her to control should it start to fall, but she’d told him not to worry about it, so, again, he’d decided to trust her.

It seemed to be taking her a very long time and with the sun being up the way it was, he was tired. He must have fallen asleep because suddenly, he was jolted awake by the sound of a loud motor. There was a grating sound at one end of his casket, followed by a muttered curse that could only be Kacie’s. A moment later, he felt the casket tilt and slowly move downhill. He hit the bottom with a decided jolt and then he was moving again.

The next time he stopped, there was a knock on the outside of the casket. “You alive in there?”

He rolled his eyes at her choice of words and was about to answer when the lid was lifted and she plucked the sheet from his face. He blinked a couple of times to get used to the light and then opened his eyes to see Kacie’s smiling face looking down at him. “Hey there.”

“Hey, yourself,” he said with a smile. “I take it we’re inside?”

She stepped back and waved her hand around the room.

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