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Chapter 30: The Labyrinth
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hey guys I am sorry I haven't posted my oldest child's dad was shot and killed and we have been trying to help my son process it the best we can, plus help his mom get the funeral set up and granted permission to leave hospice to be able to attend it's and it's putting a strain on my current relationship because I am having to do all this work for an ex but all that work isn't for my ex but my child not my fault the man didn't have a woman after I left him and they have no other family to help her plan it and get her out of hospice ok rant over sorry but I will get back to posting Monday March 16th with 2 chapters for all 3 of my books I have open
Sharing A Roof With Trouble Chapter 35: The Shape of Want
The corridor had shifted again.Not subtly.Not gradually.It had stretched impossibly forward into darkness, elongating like a living throat swallowing distance itself. The walls were no longer solid—they breathed. Liquid stone, flexing and contracting as if the structure itself had lungs. Shadows pooled and stretched across the floor like living ink, sliding in slow, predatory currents that moved with a hunger Ava could feel in her stomach.The house was no longer hiding what it was.It was hunting.Jace’s hand found hers before she could even react. His grip was immediate, instinctive, protective. “Stay close,” he whispered, voice low, intimate, dangerous in the way quiet things are dangerous. “The house is changing the rules now. It wants to trap us. To separate us. To see how far it can push… what it can break.”Ava pressed into him, chest to chest, letting his warmth anchor her in the shifting reality. The shadows slithered around their feet, brushing their boots, curling
Sharing A Roof With Trouble Chapter34: What Was Almost Lost
They did not leave the chamber. Not because they couldn’t—but because the silence itself felt predatory. As if it would follow them. As if it would learn their footsteps. As if it would wait in the walls and move when they did. Ava stayed pressed against Jace, her cheek tucked beneath his chin, their bodies aligned in the instinctive posture of survivors who had outrun something with teeth and memory and hunger. Both of them breathed like fugitives, lungs dragging air in sharp, controlled pulls. The chamber felt wrong in the way only living spaces do—too aware, too still, too listening. The air was thick. Metallic. Charged. Like the breath before lightning splits the sky. The silence after the mirror’s destruction rang louder than the house’s screams ever had. It wasn’t peace. It was a pause. The floor beneath their feet was warm—not comfort-warm, not human-warm. Living-warm. It pulsed faintly, slow and rhythmic, as if the mansion itself were nursing a wound, knitting itself b
Sharing A Roof With Trouble Chapter 33:Grounding
The path the house opened for them was wrong.Ava knew it in the way her stomach tightened before her mind could catch up, in the way the air felt slightly thinner with every step forward, as if the mansion were quietly rationing oxygen. Corridors bent where they shouldn’t—walls bowing inward, then easing back, like ribs expanding around a lung. Doors appeared and vanished between blinks, their frames breathing into existence only to dissolve again, leaving behind the phantom sensation of thresholds crossed and uncrossed.This was not guidance.It was herding.Every few steps, Ava felt the tug.Not a yank. Not force. Just the faintest suggestion—an invitation disguised as instinct. A sense that going left would be easier while Jace drifted right, that safety lived in separation if only she would listen. The house was subtle now, careful, like a predator that had learned patience.She tightened her jaw and ignored it.“Stay with me,” Jace murmured.His voice cut through the pre
Sharing A Roof With Trouble Chapter 32: The Echo That Wears His Name
Morning did not arrive.It leached in—thin, colorless, reluctant—as if the night had been wounded rather than ended, and what filtered through the stone was the residue of something unfinished. The light carried no warmth. It had no intention. It simply existed, stretched flat against the walls like a lie told too often to sound convincing.Ava woke with the certainty of being observed.Not the sharp, invasive pressure the house usually favored. Not the crawling sensation of something peering through her skull or tugging at memory. This was quieter. Worse. It was the awareness of attention without hunger—like an eye that had already learned her shape and no longer needed to stare.Her breath stalled in her chest.She did not move.The room lay still around her, its geometry unchanged, its silence so complete it rang. No whisper threaded the walls. No pulse thrummed beneath the floor. No shadows crept where they did not belong.The house was holding its breath.Ava lay there co
Sharing A Roof With Trouble Chapter 31: The Aftermath
The house did not pursue them.That was wrong.After the violence of the labyrinth—after the mirrors had screamed and the well had shattered and the walls themselves had howled like a living thing being torn apart—Ava expected retaliation. Collapse. A final cruelty ripped from the depths of the place, something petty and vicious meant to remind them who truly ruled here.Instead, silence fell.Not gently.It dropped.Heavy. Absolute. Smothering.The kind of silence that rang in the ears, that pressed against the skin until Ava could feel her own pulse too clearly, too loudly. The absence of sound felt intentional, as if the house had chosen stillness the way a predator chose to stop moving so its prey would relax.The corridor ahead stretched outward, newly formed stone smooth beneath their boots. It was damp, faintly warm, as though the passage had been exhaled rather than built. The air carried the scorched-metal tang of broken sigils and burned magic, layered beneath it the iron-so
Sharing A Roof With Trouble Chapter 25: When the Darkness Breathes You In
Darkness swallowed them whole.Not a simple absence of light—this was thick, alive, pulsing with intention. It curled around Ava’s body like cold fingers, pulling, dragging, tasting the air she breathed. Jace’s arms wrapped around her instantly, locking her to him as he pivoted, shielding her from
Sharing A Roof With Trouble Chapter 24: The Bindings in the Walls
The journal opened with a whisper like a blade sliding free.Ava flinched. Jace’s hand tightened around her waist, instinctively pulling her against him. He positioned himself between her and the shifting shadows as the room brightened with a low, golden glow that felt both holy and sinister.On
Sharing A Roof With Trouble Chapter 23: A Door That Remembers
The mirror swallowed them whole.For a heartbeat, Ava felt nothing—no floor beneath her feet, no warmth of Jace’s hand, no breath in her lungs. Just weightless, spinning darkness, like falling through ink. Cold pressed against her skin, seeping into her bones, dragging at her thoughts until she wa
Sharing A Roof With Trouble Chapter 22: The Edge of the Stairs
The stairwell spiraled into darkness, each step groaning beneath their weight as Ava and Jace descended with fingers intertwined, breaths shallow, shadows licking their heels like hungry flames. The house whispered above them—scratching, murmuring, pressing against the shredded door as though furio
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