Page 102 of Lovers Fate

I take a deep breath and swallow but my throat is dry from the thin cold air. The smell of burning wood and grass fills my nose.

I look over my shoulder but it’s dark and I don’t see the house anymore. Just tall trees and thick branches. I rub my arms and look around to see if she stopped running. I about to turn around when I jolt. She’s standing right in front of me.

“Come on, mommy,” she says in her small little voice, “It’s right over there.” She points at her left. There is a clearing between two tall trees. A sense of longing fills my chest and sobs escapes my lips.

“Samantha,” I whisper softly.Her name was Samantha.

I glance down at her beautiful white gown and her gorgeous blond hair. Her expression reminding me of him. Draco.

“I knew you would remember me. Come,” she says with excitement, waving me over. “It’s right over there.”

I follower her and then the trees disappear and I find myself in a cemetery. A family cemetery with rows of tombstones.

I cover my mouth with my hand. “Oh my God,” I mutter.

The rows of graves all have the same name. Draco Hades. Lazarus Hades but each grave has different women on the stones. I stop on the last set. Lazarus Hades and Alice Hades, Draco Hades and Ivy Hades. But my eyes catch the one on the left. A small grave in the beginning. Samantha Hades.

Tears falls down my cheeks because I know. She’s dead.

My gaze follows to wear she is standing behind it. “You promised to visit me. I missed you.” She smiles. “Daddy comes all the time but lately he’s been acting weird.” Her mouth forms a pout and she twirls her white dress.

My bottom lip trembles and it’s not from the cold. “I’m sorry.”

“It’s okay, Mommy. I’ll always find you, we promised each other, remember?”

I nod wiping my cheeks. “Yeah, we promised.”

Something hits me like a freight train. My eyes roll back. The search for her missing body that was never found. The cops. The other girls gone missing in another time. Like a fracture in the past that is now slowly making sense.

“Mommy?”

I open my eyes and she stops twirling her skirt. “You need to save them.”

“Who?”

But I know. The girls.

“The girls. It’s why you come back. See.” She points at all the graves with Draco’s name on it and all the names of each woman.” She grins. “You always come back.”

I close my eyes and her little voice echoes in my head. “Go find daddy and save them.”

I open my eyes and she’s gone. I turn around in a full circle but she’s gone because she was a ghost or a figment of my imagination.

I look down at my outfit and something feels different. “Go find Rose. She needs you.”

It’s me. I’m… her.

THIRTY-THREE

I makeit back to the house trying to figure out how I know the way but I do. I was never lost, I just forgot.

The warmth from the house causes a shiver to run through me. The party is raging. The music thumping. People dancing. Some drunk. Others making out.

I scan the people in different costumes looking for the one dressing in a sexy clown outfit. Heat rushes between my thighs. My mouth waters when I spot her on Nick’s lap. I make my way not caring at the glares cast my way when I push through the crowd.

When she spots me, her eyes glitter. “I was wondering where you went,” she says.

I can tell she is bored with Jessica Rabbit glaring at her. I take her hand and pull off Nick’s lap

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