The Return to Engstrom House by Nasser Rabadi EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Nasser Rabadi
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As rain spilled across Ashfall from a raven-black sky, the brooding
house on the hill looked especially hideous, but it was good enough
for two people with no other place to go. Their car was ruined from its
collision with the tree.
Colleen couldn’t breathe. Ambrose’s hands grabbed hers and studied her.
“Are you hurt?”
The words wouldn’t form on her lips. She could only nod.
Ambrose came around to the other side of the car, forgetting his jacket
that was in the back seat with their luggage, and opened Colleen’s door.
There were fragments of glass all over her body; she hadn’t noticed them
until Ambrose brushed it away—the crash was a haze and she was still
processing the accident.
“I’m so sorry.” Ambrose hugged her. “I lost control.”
“Are you okay?” Her lips moved slowly. After he receded from the hug,
she turned a little to study him, despite the pain pulsing in her body when
she moved.
“Yes. Let’s get you inside.”
Colleen was in too much pain to try and understand what he meant as he
helped her out of her seat, but when she saw the strange house over
Ambrose’s shoulder, it clicked. Ambrose carried her up the hill. She shut
her eyes. When she opened them, she and Ambrose were at the gate.
The gate yawned open, which was strange, because when she first
glimpsed the house, she could have sworn that it was shut.
It’s pretty, Colleen vaguely thought through warm pain flushing her body.
She tried to stand under her own strength when they were past the gate, but
she clung tight to Ambrose’s arm. Something, Colleen thought, moved in
one of the windows, but as she furtively searched, there was nothing there
but darkness.
Ambrose turned the knob; it creaked under his touch. Together they stood
motionless in the entrance. Colleen shivered as an icy draft of air passed
over her drenched body. Immediately, Ambrose grabbed the poker and
moved around half-burned logs that were in the fireplace.
“Do you see matches?”
“We need to explain,” Colleen said. Her body ached as she spoke.
“What?”
“We need to explain to the owners what happened to us.”
“Look around. Nobody lives here.”
“Ambrose I don’t want to trespass. Let’s find the owners.”
Ambrose stepped with her through the sitting room. “Anybody home?”
His loud voice spread through the house. “Anybody?” Then his eyes met
Colleen’s. “Nobody lives here.”
“Let’s make sure.”
Exiting the living room, moonlight halted behind them, and instantly they
were in pure darkness and total silence. Not even a gleam of lightning’s
unceasing blaze penetrated the sickly house; not a whisper of the storm
reached them here. It was as if they had suddenly been stricken blind and
deaf, and Colleen thought that for a moment she had been killed by a stroke
of lightning as she had crossed the threshold. They traveled through the
unknown. Vague outlines of doors could be seen if Colleen focused hard
enough, and for one moment—maybe even less—she thought she had seen
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