A MONSTER IN THE DARK BY R.K. PIERCE – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: R.K. Pierce
- Language: English
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Jovie
The shadow didn’t show up the night I found my mother lying face down
in a pool of her own blood, her face bruised beyond recognition, a bullet
hole in her back. Nor did it show up when I was drugged and raped at the
first party I ever snuck out to attend, left unconscious on the front lawn of a
frat house until campus patrol found me. It didn’t even show up when I took
a full bottle of prescription pills and dragged a razor blade across my wrist,
looking for an escape I couldn’t find elsewhere.
No. Its arrival was much more subtle.
It appeared between heartbeats one night as I lay awake, mentally tracing
the spider web above my bed that I hadn’t bothered to clean. I’d never been
a fan of spiders, but something about this one fascinated me. The way it
thrived alone, doing what it had to do to survive. It reminded me of myself,
just going through the motions, taking things one day at a time. In my
loneliest moments, the spider kept me company, even when my twin sister,
Lennon, was just down the hall.
I blinked, and it was there, a darkness in the corner of my eye. My heart
dropped and icy fear swept through me, leaving goosebumps prickling over
my skin in its wake. Heart racing, I looked over, expecting to find the worst.
Maybe someone had broken in. Maybe it was my stepfather returning to
finish what he started when he killed my mother.
I braced myself, prepared to scream for my life, and found nothing.
My stuttered breath broke the silence, and blood pounded in my ears as I
searched the moonlit room for any signs of an intruder, but there were none.
No shadows, no dark figures lurking in the corner. It had to be a trick of the
light, my mind playing games because of the late hour. It was well past
midnight.
I’m probably just tired.
After the long moment it took me to calm down, I went back to staring at
the spider web, wishing my arachnid friend would return to keep me
company. At least, that way, I wouldn’t be alone.
Then, the shadow was there again, lingering in my periphery. A smudge
of black standing next to the bed, keeping just out of my line of sight. My
throat tightened, and I debated screaming, but what would I tell Lennon if
she burst in? That I was seeing things? There was a figure in my room?
I looked over again, much slower this time, and the darkness disappeared,
leaving me staring at the closet door sitting ajar and the dry erase calendar
on the wall next to it. There was nothing unusual, nothing scary waiting to
pounce. I exhaled a shaky breath of relief.
Squeezing my eyes closed, I willed myself to sleep. If I just went to sleep,
the shadow wouldn’t return. After a full night’s rest, everything would be
fine. It was a hollow promise I repeated until I finally dozed off, but after
that night, the shadow never left for good.
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