Lost Soul by Adam J. Wright

Author:Adam J. Wright [Wright, Adam J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Action & Adventure, Fantasy, Men's Adventure, Mystery; Thriller & Suspense, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Romance, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Paranormal & Urban, Sword & Sorcery, Thriller
Amazon: B01BZLKQ88
Published: 2016-02-19T05:00:00+00:00

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Later, when night fell, we went wordlessly up to my bedroom and stood facing each other by the bed. Mallory’s breathing had already quickened and in the silvery moonlight that came in through the window, I could see her breasts rising and falling with each rapid breath. I couldn’t fool myself into thinking that her fast breathing was due to excitement. I knew she was afraid.

In every slasher flick, there’s a lesson that the poor victims of the killer learn too late: sex equals death. Every couple that makes out in those movies ends up dead, as if being punished for their carnal desires. For Mallory, the sex equals death equation wasn’t just something she’d seen in the movies; she had seen it happen in real life. All of the high school kids who had paired off and ventured into the bedrooms of Blackthorn House had met a grisly end at the hands of Mister Scary. The idea that having sex was deadly had been carved into the deepest recesses of Mallory’s mind.

After she and I had become friends, she’d confided in me that the thought of having sex filled her with dread and even though she knew on a rational level that her fear was ludicrous, an irrational part of her would not let her give in to desire.

The therapists she visited regularly couldn’t help her, no matter how much they tried to rationalize her fear and help her overcome it. After the therapists failed to help her, Mallory told me that the only way she could be cured was by practical means. She had to try having sex, and it had to be with someone she trusted and who would understand that the experiment was purely for therapeutic reasons and had no emotional baggage attached to it.

At first, I had jumped at the chance. Mallory was a beautiful young woman in her early twenties and her offer was the stuff of many a man’s wet dream. But when I saw how deep and powerful her fear was, I spent the “therapy” sessions worrying about Mallory’s mental state. I wasn’t sure this was the best way for her to be cured and I told her so on more than one occasion. Each time, she convinced me to continue with the sessions, saying there was no one else she trusted enough to take over my role.

So here I was, standing in front of her in a dark bedroom while she almost hyperventilated with fear.

I moved toward her slowly, reaching my hands up to touch her bare arms. Her scared hazel eyes shone in the moonlight as she looked up at me. Inwardly, I cursed Mister Scary for what he had done to my beautiful friend. She deserved better than this.

I bent my head down toward her and kissed her softly. She kissed me back, her eyes darting to the shadowy corners of the room as if she expected a killer to come bursting out of the darkness, brandishing the same knife he had used to carve up a group of high school kids five years ago.

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