The One Who Brings The Rain

By Rodolfo S. Marchon

Three young friends have their holiday trip interrupted by torrential rain and need to stay in a strange hotel. They soon discover that something sinister is hiding there.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rodrigo dos Santos Xavier Mendonça
• Release date: Jun 3, 2020
• ISBN: 9781071539729

Book preview

Chapter 1

I hear the sound of the rain falling violently outside. The flash of lightening comes in through the study’s window. I start shivering, from both cold and fear, that never goes away. There’s no need of a mirror, I’m aware of the frightened face I’m making, due to trauma, hunger and insomnia.

Insomnia is good. I don’t allow myself to sleep.

Three days have gone by. I know that because the small wooden clock hanging on the wall announces the flow of hours and I count them with small markings on the wall. Dark bags around my eyes are enough to tell tired I am, hurt. Defeated.

No, not defeated. Not yet.

I glance at the gun on the desk. I know there’s only one bullet left. I’ve been fighting this terrible temptation, clinging to the hope that someone will come and save me, that this torrential rain will stop or that simply, somehow, I’ll wake up in my own bed, sweaty and confused, but safe and aware that everything was just a nightmare. Such hope diminishes ever so slowly. In the end, I know I won’t last much more time.

I walk to the desk, grab a paper block with a just a few yellow, stained pages and a broken pen that fortunately still works. If I make the final decision, I need to leave a reason why behind. People need to be informed, someway, about the evil that inhabits this dismal place, so they won’t make the same mistake I did, and that cost me the lives of Raymond and Liz.

And soon will cost mine too.

Chapter 2

Everything started one week ago. We were younglings of the big city, just graduated, on the hunt for fun in the countryside during our last vacation, before facing the big responsibilities of adulthood. 

Liz was getting ready to join a well-known enterprise in the fashion business. Raymond would assume an important role alongside his parents, who were real state tycoons. And I was preparing to go into Labour Law through a contract (modest, but still a contract) to Raymond’s family business.

Raymond’s parents had recently acquired a beautiful country villa they were willing to lend to their son, his girlfriend and his best friend as a graduation present. We’d find the place ready and provided with food and drinks for the entire summer.

The journey would be long. We lived in the other side of the country, but we opted to go by car. Now the world was ours, where’s the fun in going by plane? We wanted adventure. And we found