The Wild Dark by Katherine Silva

Author:Katherine Silva [Silva, Katherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: dark, forest, ghost, horror, supernatural, wild, woods
Publisher: Strange Wilds Press
Published: 2021-10-20T04:00:00+00:00

THEN

“Liz!”

Brody’s voice called to me through the cobwebs of sleep. I sat up too quickly and the room around me spun. Sun barely peeked in through the curtains over the living room window.

Bang, bang, bang!

My door rattled with the incessant knocking. It sounded like a herd of elephants trying to break through.

I pushed myself up from the chair and staggered through the living room to answer the door. I opened it as Brody was in mid knock. His eyes were wide with surprise.

“Where the hell have you been? I’ve been trying to call you all morning!”

I closed my eyes against the bright light behind him. “Don’t…yell.”

He furrowed his brows. “What’s the matter with you?”

“I slept in.”

“Slept in? It’s nine o’clock. When you didn’t show up at the station this morning, I thought something had happened to you.”

Panic seized me. I’d forgotten it was Brody’s first day back on the job. “Damn it. I’m sorry. Give me a minute. I need to take a shower.”

“Liz, you don’t have time for that. We’ve got to go. We have a B and E on Clairmont to get to.”

“Five minutes,” I said over my shoulder as I disappeared back inside.

The front door closed and Brody sigh. “I’m going to count,” he called after me.

I looked over my shoulder at him leaning against the door with arms crossed.

The shower didn’t clear away all of the sludge in my head nor the sense that my whole body was still asleep. But it had felt good and was enough to shove me ahead into my work clothes.

I came downstairs, wrangling my hair into a wet ponytail. The sound of clinking from my kitchen sent a bolt of panic through me. I followed the sound and stopped in the kitchen door.

Brody had pulled bottles out of my cabinet: gin, vodka, white rum, even the margarita mixer and was stuffing them into a black garbage bag.

“What the fuck do you think you’re doing?” I snapped.

“I should be asking you!” he barked, letting go of the bag and taking a step toward me. “I thought we’d talked about this. Now I find you hungover like some school girl crying over a boy?”

I glowered. “That’s not fair.”

He waved at the mostly empty bottles on the counter. “Look what you’re doing to yourself! I thought you were smarter than that, that you of all people wouldn’t let some guy put a chink in your armor. You’ve picked yourself back up after tougher shit than this!”

I threw my hands in the air. “Fuck, I don’t know! Maybe it’s because Josh wasn’t ‘some guy’!”

He shook his head and put the last few bottles into the black bag. “You’re not working today.”

“Let’s go.” I shook my head. “I don’t want to talk about this anymore.”

“You haven’t been walking straight since I came through the door.”

I self-consciously straightened my posture.

“And, no offense, you look like you crawled out of a grave.”

I glared at him. “I showered.”

“And into the rain.”

It was getting steadily harder to focus on him and not on the fact that I wanted to sneak into bed.

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