She felt her heart open
up to the prospect of letting it all go. Actually, going to Paris for a couple
of weeks and then coming back and fulling embracing the community.
Before she could say a
word, Heather barged into the back room. “We have to hide! All hell is breaking
loose outside. We’re all in grave danger!”
Chapter
9
“What do you mean?” asked
Cage spinning around. Elise could tell all his senses were on high alert.
“There’s something out
there,” stammered Heather. “I saw it. It’s black, like fog, but it’s not fog.”
“How did you see it?”
asked Elise, feeling her own sense heighten.
“I was about to come
check out the books on spells and I looked out the side window,” said Heather,
tears falling frantically on her cheeks. “I saw Pammy out the there. The black
stuff, it just wrapped around her like a snake, her eyes flashed red, and she
started to scream as if her whole body was racked in pain. I dropped the books,
ready to run out there and help her. But then the black stuff, it looked at
me.” She shook her head. “I don’t know how, I mean it wasn’t like it had a
face, but it looked at me and I saw myself … my teeth were breaking into pieces
and falling out. I touched my mouth and my teeth were still there, but I just
kept seeing my teeth breaking over and over and I knew if that black fog
touched me, I’d not only see it. I’d feel it.”
Cage looked at Elise with
narrowed eyes.
She stepped back as she
felt Roark tremble. “It wasn’t me. I was here with you.”
“You didn’t conjure it
earlier when you were angry with me?”
Elise shook her head
frantically. “I wouldn’t do that.”
Rosemary appeared, her
own face frantic. “Something is outside. It’s evil. You have to stop it. It …
It …”
Rosemary lost her composer
into a fit of sobs. “It took Dorothea
and Ernest. They went outside, thinking it was something you did. The thing …
it just sucked them in.”
Cage shook his head. “If
it wasn’t you, then who was it?”
“I don’t know,” said
Elise, fear and rage gripping her body. “I would never hurt Dorothea and
Ernest. They are my family.”
They heard a sob from the
corner and saw Heather hunkered down, fear dripping from her face as she looked
at the three of them. Elise’s heart jumped to her throat, she had forgotten
Heather was in the room.
She walked gently to the
woman and knelt in front of her. “Heather, you’re okay.”
Heather shook her head
violently. “No, no I’m not. That woman is see-through and Cage says you are
responsible for that thing out there. I’m seeing things again, aren’t I Elise.
The black thing has got me … unless … you’re the witch.” She grabbed Elise by
the color, then shriek as her fingers skimmed Roark’s body. “There’s a spider
on you! A giant spider!”
“It’s okay,” Elise said
again. She waved her finger. “This, my
friend, is too much to bear. Go to sleep, you will, and forget to share. You’ll
wake rested and full of love, forgetting all of the above.”
Heather looked at Elise
for a moment and Elise couldn’t help but see gratitude instead of fear, just
before Heather’s eyes drooped shut and she started to snore softly.
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