Alle Kapitel von From Wet Nurse to Luna: Kapitel 11 – Kapitel 12

RomanThe night before Cathy came, I had the dream again.In the dream, I was twelve years old again. My father had just died, and I couldn’t sleep, so I went looking for my mother.I stood barefoot in the hallway outside her room. Her door was open a crack, and the scent drifting out of it was all wrong. It was Uncle Aldric’s.She was lying across the edge of her bed with one hand pressed to the side of her neck. Blood was running out between her fingers.Go back to bed, Roman, she said. Please. Don’t look.Then a hand reached out of the dark behind her. Uncle Aldric closed it around her wrist and pulled her back into the bed, and the sheets folded over her like dark water. She sank deeper and deeper, until all I could see was her hand reaching for me.I woke up at 3:44 a.m. The sheets were soaked through, and my skin was burning from the heat toxin.I got up, took a cold shower, and went out to run around the lake in the dark. I stayed in human form and ran until the sky started to t