Haunting Adeline Book Review Novels & Stories

The remnants of someone’s bedroom that was long forgotten about crashed around us. We screamed in terror. I was beginning to fear the house was going to fall down on us. We continued to hear the sound of slamming and fighting happening through the house. I was clawing at everything to try and find an escape. Out of nowhere, a book dropped in my lap. It was old. It looked like it used to be cream colored with purple lace. This matches Gabrielle’s style. I saw a key lock. Suddenly, a key dropped from the binding of the book. It was a diary of some kind. I think Gabrielle’s spirit or someone wants me to have this. I shoved it into my bag and peaked out the door. I could tell it was still not s

“She didn’t want her life to be recorded. She thought it a human essential, not for beings like us. The technology didn’t sit well with her. Even with all my affluence, I could only mount cameras outside the home. I had to honor her wish, somehow. “Our lives seemed perfect without it, until the demon came, lured her from the comfort of where she calls home, and took her life in split seconds…” I could feel the agonizing vibration of his tone; his nerves throbbed up and down with every word. He loved Adeline, no doubts. He still is. A cold creeping dread seeped into my bones at the thought of how much he still loves Adeline. What if he never stops? I could feel a rumbling sound trying to esca

They didn’t divorce, but they didn’t seem to reconcile anytime soon. Before Clavier could say anything, Adeline collapsed, and he rushed in to catch her body. “Adeline!” Clavier called as her eyes were slowly closing. He touched her forehead and felt her skin was burning hot as if she was grilled alive. There were red markings all over her arms. With her shaking hands, she reached for something inside the pocket of her jacket. “What’s this?” Clavier asked. “The drug...the First Elder’s blood used to produce the drug...and the research data….” Adeline replied softly before losing consciousness.

Silent tears flowed out as I dipped lower in the mattress. My headache had finally resided by the time I woke up. The curtains were drawn on the window and it was already dark outside. I stared out at the moonless night beyond as my heard wrapped around the reality. Sighing inaudibly, I turned around and saw Adeline hunched over her study table, her nose poking into a book. She was really engrossed into whatever she was reading. Getting off the bed, I tiptoed toward her. As my shadow fell over her book, she turned around, "Oh, hi, you are finally up." Putting the bookmark inside the page, she continued, "How is your headache?"

She sifted through the books and was sure she would recognize one of them. "Of course, it's a book!" Rain looked almost deceived. "Because the last time we came here, my dad asked you to send him some books. But, you don't do that, madam. Can you explain why? Or do you actually know something but deliberately hide it from us?" Immediately, Ben felt betrayed and cheated by Madam Adaline and Rain. Hardy's three wolves immediately alerted. They surrounded Adalin's desk and were on high alert. Rain checked one by one the stacks of books on Adalin's desk. She fingered the cover with a damp palm out of nervousness and stopped on one of the notebooks. She felt the power of the runes depicted on the

Face peeking from between the covers, elbow crooked over her head, the empty suit of her flesh spread before her, her eyes met his. They twinkled, the blue brighter than before. “You see?” he said, the remnants of her body gathered together and still in-hand. “Our Eidolon was right. You do have a book in you.” He stretched his arms wide, her supple skin a tapestry to be trimmed and cut, polished and stitched. To wrap and protect her cover. “There are tales to be told.” Chin slipping past stitches, fingers sinking between pages, the book finished its feast. The war unwinnable, her battle lost.

The weight of Eleanor’s demands became a boulder crushing her spirit. Until the accident. Then, everything ended. Everything. Back in the present, Axel drained the last of the bottle. Would he ever forget those suffocating days? At the Manor "Why isn't Axel home yet? Is he working late again?" Adeline glanced at the wall clock. It was 10:30 PM, and there was no sign of him. He hadn't replied to her messages. She wanted to call but feared she would be an intrusion. Still, a cold knot of anxiety tightened in her stomach.

Helena stopped in front of my bed and I sat straighter on my bed and raised my eyebrows at her, indicating her to speak. “She is innocent.” That was the first thing that came out of her mouth and I could see, Adeline visibly relaxing by my peripheral view. She was standing near me and looking at our intruders. She didn’t utter a single word. She looked confused by the entire events that took place this night. Helena looked bothered; whatever she had read from my mail was definitely not good. She was the strongest among my grim reapers and she was smartest too. She was the only one who had the guts to call me by my name.

A ripple of awe passed through her—she had sensed her sister’s gift was unusual, but to hear it spoken of with such weight stirred something deeper in her. --- Later that morning, Arda and Adeline sat with the Salutary in the library, a room lined with old leather-bound texts and smelling faintly of cedar. Gillow paced near the tall windows, silent but watchful. Adeline’s voice trembled slightly as she recounted her experience. “I went out to the balcony just after sunrise. The light touched me and… I don’t know what came over me. My body seized, I couldn’t move. Then I saw it—flashes, like pieces of another world. There was fighting during the ceremony. Blood. Bodies falling. And mountain a

"Where are the elixirs?" A tall shadow on the floor crossed Adeline's barely open eyes. The shadow was of a bulky man, his frame strong and sturdy, and on his hand was a whip. When his deep voice reached Adeline's faraway consciousness, the hairs at the back of her neck stood up. She clenched her fist in anger, despite losing every inch of her being. "We... don't have... such thing," Adeline replied in a hoarse voice, gritting her teeth.