The Haunting of Silver Creek Lodge by Alexandria Clarke

Author:Alexandria Clarke [Clarke, Alexandria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-14T22:00:00+00:00

11

Lily picked up my coat from the ground and wrapped it around me. She made me step into my boots and led me to the house, guiding me with a firm arm. All the while, I gaped, unable to find appropriate words to join together in a sentence.

She ran me a hot bath in the single bathroom we’d finished renovating and waited politely outside the door while I warmed up from my adventures outside. When I finished, she brought me a set of clothes—a cozy sweater and sweatpants—to get dressed. After I pulled on a fresh pair of fuzzy socks, I ventured out of the bathroom and found her tending to a pot of soup on the new kitchen stove.

“Did you say…?” I began, but the absurdity of the thought in my head stopped me from completing the question.

“I said I was dead,” she replied, stirring the canned soup to keep it from sticking to the bottom of the pan.

“But you’re here,” I said stupidly. “You’re talking to me, walking around the Lodge, warming up soup. You can’t be dead.”

Lily’s familiar smirk appeared. “You’re taking it better than I thought you would, to be honest.”

I hoisted myself onto the counter. “That’s because I don’t believe you.” I reached out and touched her shoulder. She was solid. “How can I touch a dead person?”

“It’s hard to explain,” she said. “Even I don’t know all the details.”

“You never eat,” I remembered suddenly. “All the times I’ve brought you food or offered to buy you lunch. You always refused.”

“Dead people don’t eat,” she replied matter-of-factly.

“You don’t leave the Lodge, either.” I stared at her, open-mouthed. “I’ve never seen you off the property.”

The soup bubbled and popped, plopping over the edge of the pot and spraying the counter with a mess. Lily wiped it away with a dishtowel. “This lodge is special. Or cursed, depending on the way you look at things. I can’t leave here. Believe me, I’ve tried, but I don’t always have control over what happens to me here. Every time I’ve gotten close to stepping over the border of the property, everything goes black and I—” She cut herself off, and her grip on the wooden spoon tightened. “Let’s just say I have to relive a moment that I don’t like to think about.”

“How did you die?” I asked. “Is that insensitive of me? I’m sorry, I just don’t understand how this could be happening.”

“I got into—”

My phone rang, interrupting her reply. I glanced at the screen and ignored the call. “Don’t worry. It’s only Simon. He’s probably calling to tell me Boyce’s new offer. Keep going.”

Lily took a single mug—we didn’t have any soup bowls yet—from the pantry and spooned soup into it. “I got into a car accident. I don’t remember much about it. It was snowing that night. I was in a hurry. I think I was in trouble for some reason. Anyway, I saw the road for the Lodge and turned that way. The pavement was covered in ice.

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