Page 14 of Haunting Phantom
Damien frowns.“Me? Is this bitch talking about me? Darlin’, if I were living, I’d have you eating out of the palm of my hand, and you’d be choking on my dick for weeks.”
Voorhees pauses. “There’s more than just one ghost here?”
Autumn nods. “I feel three. One I’ve connected with before… one who is a little too cocky for my liking… and…”
“Eve,” Phantom finishes for her.
“Is that her name?”
“Damn right, that’s my name, bitch! Don’t you ever forget it! Now hit the road, Jack. Go! Before I show you exactly why I’m the head bitch in charge around here.”
Autumn takes a step back. “I’ve never felt someone so lost before. It’s almost as if she’s not quite sure why she’s here.”
“I know exactly why I’m here. For him. The guy you keep making stupid googly eyes at. I’m getting better at throwing things, so how about I throw something at those pretty green eyes of yours? Maybe I’ll get lucky and a glass shard will pluck out your eyeballs?”
Autumn laughs. “She’s definitely spirited.”
“Oh, now she’s making fun of me… how dare you!”
Autumn quickly jumps to the side as another bottle launches at her, missing her by a few inches. It hits the floor, but doesn’t shatter, just spins and spins until it lands on Damien’s gloating face.
“Sweet, I love Spin the Bottle! Come on, Evie baby, give your ghost daddy a little kiss.”
“Come any closer, and I’ll filet your cock and serve it to Krueger.”
Krueger’s appalled expression makes me giggle. But for the first time in a while, he stays silent, observing and listening to everything going on in front of us.
“You’d have to catch me first,”Damien claims, one-eyed winking like he’s throwing out Morse code.
“This isn’t good at all. She’s way too attached to you.”
Phantom chuckles. “Tell me something I don’t know.”
“When spirits get attached like this, it’s not good; it leads to possession and control. Things are going to get worse instead of better.”
“Possession? Control? Bitch, I already have control over him. Look at him; he’s in love with me. Me! Not you. Not any bitch that comes near him. Me.”
“Can you help us?” Voorhees questions.
She hugs herself, waiting a few seconds before nodding. “I can try, but she has to be willing to cross over, and from what I feel, she’s not ready.”
“I’m not going anywhere!”I rage, flying at her with a fury that is unmatched by everything else. But it’s like she has a barrier of protection around her or something, because I bounce off an invisible force, my ass falling to the ground with a weightless and soundless thud.
“She’s protected,”Krueger states, suddenly appearing behind me.“You can’t touch her unless she wants you to.”
“She’s trying to get rid of me.”
Damien strolls up and puts his hand out, helping me to my feet.“Well, you are a bit of a nuisance, Dollface.”
“Nuisance? Me! What about you? You’re the one going around possessing people while they have sex.”
He shrugs.“They don’t even know it’s happening. But you, you throw shit and get angry. You drag people out of their rooms kicking and screaming. You’re the kind of ghost people are afraid of. The kind they can see without seeing, and makes them feel afraid. Face it, Dollface, you’re scaring people.”
“Good! Let them be scared. I want them to know who Phantom belongs to. Blake is mine. I don’t care who comes in here rubbing sage sticks and cleansing the house with psychobabble juju, I’m not going anywhere! Phantom is my unfinished business, and until he’s with me again, I’m sticking by his side!”
The glass around us suddenly shatters. Every bottle, mirror, and thin piece of glass within a few feet of us, explodes, my rage combusting to where I couldn’t control it. I didn’t even realize that my voice was getting louder and louder. Everything built beneath the surface, none of it making sense.
Everyone screams and ducks as the last glass goes sailing across the room, shattering against the wall with an effective bang.
