Monsters Are Hidden by Alta Hensley EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Alta Hensley
- Language: English
- Formats: PDF / EPUB
- Status: Available For Free Download
- Genre: Saga Fiction
- Price: Free
- File Size: 2 MB
- Publish Date: April 4, 2023
Ani
I don’t know what time it is. I’ve been sleeping more than I’ve been awake,
and the darkness of the night has deepened. I am curiously removed from the
world around me and wake slowly, disorientated, with soft sheets luxurious
against my skin. A feeling of stillness hangs in the air, and the room is lit by a
soft night light that is always kept on. Somewhere, in the distance, a clock is
ticking, and I feel a faint chill.
I’ve been in this mansion for weeks—maybe even a month. Each day has
blended with the next, and I feel as if I’m living in an odd purgatory between
the hell I was once in and a potential future of better times ahead now that
he’s gone.
Forever gone.
Gone.
My phone vibrates on the nightstand beside me, which makes me wonder
if that is the sound that woke me. It’s my sister calling, so I answer quickly. If
I don’t, she’ll start to panic.
“Hey.” I reach for the glass of water beside my bed. My voice is scratchy,
and I don’t want Daphne to worry even more that I may be getting sick or
something.
“Did I wake you?”
“I really need to start sleeping on a regular schedule. I’m losing all sense
of time.”
“You’re healing. Your body went through a lot,” Daphne says, softly.
“Your mind did, too.” This isn’t the first time she’s given me this
reassurance. Every time I bring up how I should leave and get out of her hair,
I receive this same lecture.
“I know, but I’m feeling better. The bruising is fading. Nothing I can’t
hide with a little makeup.” I leave out the fact that I have the kind of makeup
that covers the bruises back at my trailer and have done this multiple times.
“You aren’t ready to leave Olympus,” Daphne says, clearly reading my
mind. “I don’t want you in that tin can any longer.”
“That tin can is my home.”
“It’s a piece-of-shit trailer, and it doesn’t need to be your home. I can
help you—”
“I’m not taking your money,” I say.
“Ani…”
“I’m serious. You and Apollo have already done far more than I’m
comfortable with.”
My sister and I have been having this argument ever since she married
into the Godwin family. Just because she has access to money now doesn’t
mean I do. I don’t take charity or handouts. Never have. Never will.
“Tell me about the house you visited today,” I say. “I’m assuming you’ve
seen it by now.”
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