Dark Secret

By Amanda Lawrence Auverigne

A secret so deadly…

 

Lisa meets Christopher on a blind date. And she feels an instant attraction.

Christopher is handsome, successful and intelligent. He's also hiding a dark secret.

Can Lisa find out what Christopher is hiding before it's too late?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Amanda Lawrence Auverigne
• Release date: Jul 25, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201244521

Amanda Lawrence Auverigne

Amanda Lawrence Auverigne writes horror, humor and dark fantasy fiction. She lives in the United States. Read short stories, watch book trailers and find out about new book releases. Visit Amanda's website.   http://auverigne.com

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1

Lisa sat in front of her laptop and she was staring at the screen in a post-drunken haze.  She blinked several times while she gazed at the flashing black cursor that was located at the top portion of the white monitor.

What to write? What to write? Lisa asked with a loud burp. 

Lisa leaned forward. She grabbed the cup of hot black coffee that rested on the desk on the right side of her laptop.  She held the heated ceramic mug in both hands.  She took a gingerly sip of the healing caffeinated brew as she continued to stare at the stark whiteness of the computer screen in front of her.

After a few moments, her weary eyes began to hurt and she closed them.  She raised a hand from her mug and rubbed the flesh of her closed lids slowly with her fingertips.  She did not stop this motion until she started seeing small dots of white light dance in her field of vision.

So, she opened her eyes and blinked slowly with the effort of looking around her small bedroom.

Lisa’s bedroom was tiny by the city's living standards.

Her Queen-sized bed had barely fit within the confines of the defined space of her bedroom when she moved in.  And the oversized pallet was so cumbersome in the tiny chamber that she could reach her bed by taking a total eight steps away from the room's doorway.

Her desk had been pushed into  a small corner of the room a few paces away from the bed.  The small furnishing had been placed directly in front of the room's only window.

A set of dark blue curtains hung from the window.  The partitions were partially ajar and they revealed a set of white blinds that decorated the interior of the window.

The blinds of the window were open. And the partition provided an unobstructed view of the apartment complex that was located across the street.

The neighboring building was eight stories tall which was similar to Lisa's apartment building. And most of the tenants in the nearby structure had chosen to spend the day with their blinds and curtains open so that their daily activities could be seen by the world, or by anyone in the nearby vicinity who decided to watch them.

Lisa passed her gaze across the windows outside. She flinched when a sudden blast of sunlight poured from the once cloudy sky.

Lisa's eyes hurt from the unexpected onslaught of bright illumination.  She placed her coffee on her desk and rose from her  wheeled chair.  She turned to her left side and climbed atop the bed.  She crawled across the mattress and stopped when she was situated directly in front of the window.

There was a small space between the side of her Queen-sized bed and the wall into which the window was embedded.

Lisa slid off of the bed and she thrust her legs in the tight space that existed between the bed and the wall.  She placed her bare feet on the floor and winced from the coldness of the wooden floorboards.  She raised her right hand and reached for the hanging white cylinder that dangled from the side of the window blinds.  She clutched at the white object.  She twisted the cylinder quickly.  She watched as the blinds atop her window methodically closed. 

The bright sunlight vanished and the room became dim once more.

The only light in her bedroom was the sickly yellow illumination that poured from the circular glass light that was attached to the middle of the ceiling.

When the window blinds were firmly shut, Lisa  released the white cylinder from her grasp. She grabbed at the dark blue curtains that hung from the sides of the window and pulled them shut with a satisfied cluck of her tongue.

Yes! Lisa said. 

Lisa turned around clumsily in the tight space