EMBRACING THE NIGHT (PLAYHOUSE OF HORRORS #3) BY CORA MASTERS, GEORGIA WELLS – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Cora Masters
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- Genre: Contemporary romance
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Dahlia
A seagull let out an obnoxious awk-awk-awk bleat, and I flinched awake.
For a single instant, before the fuzziness of sleep slipped away, I thought I
was back in the playhouse. The seagull’s cry, a guttural scream of pain from
a victim. One second, I was ready to fight for my life, the next I was staring
out across white sand beaches at the Ionian Sea.
“Holy shit,” I muttered under my breath.
It wasn’t as though I’d been dreaming of the house either. In fact, my dream
had been pleasant and calm. Fading now, but a few vestiges of the fantasy
still played across my mind. I’d been flying, like Peter Pan, across the
ocean. Freedom. So much freedom that it had been intoxicating. Honestly, I
wanted to shove a pen into the eye socket of that damned bird for waking
me up and ruining it.
I adjusted my sunglasses and went about smearing myself down with
another layer of sunscreen. The fall weather in Greece was much different
from back home. Less humidity but still pleasantly warm during the day.
For me, the water was a little too cool, but the beach was my favorite place
to relax. Drake usually waited back at the house while I came here to
unwind.
None of this felt real. As I rubbed lotion down my legs, I had to keep
reminding myself, as I did a hundred times each day, that we were running
for our lives. We’d gone into hiding, not a vacation, but in doing so, we had
to fit in as though we were on a holiday. And we were doing a fucking good
job of acting.
My life had been one long fucking nightmare, and the thought of doing
anything but working, trying to survive, and keeping my sanity had always
seemed beyond my ability. I’d never even taken a weekend away at some
shitty campground, much less gone on Disney trips, cruises, or overseas
vacations. Now, here I was on a Greek beach, sunbathing and greased up
with suntan lotion. All around me, people strolled up and down the beach,
oblivious to the things that really happened in the darker elements of life.
They had no clue how harsh, painful, and bloody life could really be. Lucky
fucks.
A crawling sensation traveled up my spine as I sat there. Fear shot through
me, and I turned, glancing behind me. I knew that feeling. It had plagued
me all my time in the playhouse. I was being watched. Someone
somewhere was looking at me. Eyes roving my body, measuring, planning.
My hand reflexively clamped down on the lotion bottle, sending a steam of
white liquid across my legs like I’d just jerked off some gargantuan man
and he’d finished on me.
“Fuck.” I hissed and wiped at it, but I continued to scan the surrounding
beach, hunting for whomever was watching me.
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