Page 12 of Haunting Phantom
Her head bobbed up and down slowly.“It’s why you’re still here and didn’t cross over. Something in the mortal realm is holding onto you. If I had to guess, it’s your boyfriend.”
The thought of Blake’s love for me lasting beyond death made me feel invincible.
“So now what?”I questioned her.
She raised a single eyebrow at me.“Now you wait until he dies.”
“Dies?”
She nodded.“So you can be together again.”
That last line stuck with me. It’s all I think about. How wonderful it would be to be with Blake again, and for him to finally communicate and see me.
Damien gets up from the table and saunters up to me.“Do you feel it?”he questions, his expressions limited to a single lowly eyebrow raise.
“Feel what?”
“There’s a strange charge in the air, like the barrier from the ethereal veil has lifted or something.”He stops speaking when a girl walks through the door with Drac’s wife, both moving straight to Voorhees and Phantom.
“Whoa, who the fuck is that?”Damien questions, his usual charm switching on again.
“You do realize you’re dead, right? She can’t see or hear you.”
But Damien isn’t paying attention to me; he’s moved across the room, circling the two girls with a strange fascination and curiosity.
Drac’s wife doesn’t even flinch. But the other girl… she hugs herself like she can sense him.
“You can feel me, can’t you?”he asks her, but she doesn’t respond. Just looks around nervously.
“Phantom, I’d like you to meet Autumn. Autumn’s the girl I was telling you about, the one that can talk to ghosts.”
“I fucking knew it!”Damien shouts.“The bitch can hear me.”
The girl nibbles on her bottom lip, looking kind of sick and uncomfortable. She’s pretty, I’ll give her that, but she’s definitely not me.
Her eyes lift slowly, meeting Blake’s curious gaze in a strange pause that could be considered flirting. A blush consumes her cheeks, and she instantly looks at her feet, suddenly more nervous than before.
His mouth slightly moves into a…
No way! Is that a fucking smile?
Why is he smiling at her?
Wait! Did he just wink? He did! That bastard is winking at this bitch like he’s interested.
This shit needs to stop! Right now!
A strange rush of rage vibrates through my body, sending a glass off one of the tables.
Her eyes widen. “Oh!”
Phantom’s smile fades. “Yeah… pretty sure that’s why you’re here.”
She looks around the room, almost as if she’s trying to find the culprit.
“I’m over here, bitch! And before you say anything, you can take your happy ass out that door!”
The girl hugs herself. “You have a very angry spirit here. There’s a lot of jealousy and rage surrounding them.” She closes her eyes, and I suddenly feel like someone is studying me with agiant magnifying glass. Her eyes pop open again. “Did you lose someone close to you?”
