Poisoned Legacy by Jenny Wheeler

Author:Jenny Wheeler [Wheeler, Jenny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780473430061
Publisher: Happy Families Ltd
Published: 2018-08-29T22:00:00+00:00

Graysie awoke in a cold sweat, struggling to breathe. Moonlight flooded the room, but all around her the house lay silent and peaceful. She lay on her back, staring at the carved ceiling rose overhead, momentarily stunned by her rushed wakefulness. She was panting, as if she’d been in a high odds race she had to win. And then the horror of the image she’d seen in her sleep washed over her.

A blackened corpse, curved like a pretzel, buried in the ashes. When the firemen had pulled him clear, his arms were charred sticks, covering his head in futile denial. Two glaring rows of bared teeth were the only clue that she was staring at a human being. She huddled in a circle and covered her face with her hands, racked by dry sobbing as she remembered what came next. The gruesome spectre had straightened, looked directly at her, and begun beckoning to her. The lips moved around the macabre teeth in a terrible smile.

She lay in the middle of her bed and rocked back and forth gently, crooning to herself. No, no, no. No more death. No more. No more.

She was gripped by an overwhelming certainty that the charred man was Nathan, and that if he continued to search for the men who had killed three times already, he would be the next one to die. They’d already tried and missed twice. She couldn’t afford to risk it being third time unlucky.

Death seems to follow you around.

Sebastian Russell’s words echoed in her mind.

Her teeth chattered in the balmy night, and she curled even tighter, pressed her hands closer, sobbing until her rib cage ached, willing the fear to dissipate. When the sobs finally died away, she lay rigid, eyes wide open, until the first bird calls signaled a new dawn. She knew what she had to do, and she planned to waste no time in doing it.

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