Haunted Destiny: A Midnight Dragonfly Bonus Short Story - Plot & Excerpts
Through the crisscross of flashlight beams they all looked at me, as if some massive gauntlet had been hurled at my feet.Probably because it had.Challenge glimmered in Jessica’s eyes, but it ran so much deeper than the mattresses. They were just a prop, everyone else the audience. This was about her, and me. And Chase.Actually, it was all about Chase.She was staking her claim, daring me to make a move. I was supposed to back away, to run, giving her the satisfaction of scaring me away. Not from the house.But from Chase.Open door number one; open door number two. Life was about choices. Take a different path—dream a different dream. Even the road not taken led somewhere.I’ll never know what would have happened if I’d just turned and walked away.But I’d never been very good at that.Determined not to buckle, I stepped deeper into the room—and saw. Lightning flashed in from a cloudless sky, replacing shadows with a harsh silver light. And in that one cruel flash, everything came into horrible focus.
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