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Alice listened at the door.
Their whole story sounded utterly ridiculous. Ghosts! How many drugs had these guys consumed? She’d thought Ivan would have been the voice of reason, but when he bought into their shared delusion, she couldn’t take it anymore and decided she needed that bath after all. She needed to wash the smell of him off. She hated the fact that she’d enjoyed having him inside her. She hated that his touch exhilarated her. She didn’t want to want him. She wanted to loathe him and hated that she didn’t. He’d saved her from a bloody and painful end. He’d saved her from ending up like that girl they now thought was haunting them. It was all complete and utter madness.
Thankfully the en-suite bathroom didn’t sport the hunting motif found all over the rest of the house. The
