The Ghost Files 4: Part 1

by Apryl Baker

“Look closer, Emma Rose. Tell me what else you see.” I stare at myself for a long moment before a shocked gasp fills the room. My eyes aren’t just black. I can see a sheen of yellow in them. The same yellow in that kid’s eyes from my dream, the same yellow in the morgue kid’s eyes. Why are my eyes yellow? “Your mother’s father wasn’t the man who raised her.” Silas yanks on my hair, pulling the braid tighter. “He was a demon who surfaced when he was summoned to help create a child who would hold immense power. Only she couldn’t do what had been promised. She couldn’t bring images to life.” Fudgepops. “It required more than the Dubois had to offer. Delieriel was furious. He almost killed Georgina, but she was a smart one, your mother. She made a deal.” “A deal?” I don’t like where this is going. Not one bit. “She promised him a child who could do what he wanted, a child who could bring images to life with her blood. She was to give him the girl upon her second birthday. By then she’d know if the child was capable of doing the thing she could not.” “And he accepted the deal?” Silas nods, a black scrunchie appearing in his hands. “She called me and wanted to know if I could help her get the recipe just right.” “And of course you could.” He smiled, the danger in his expression unmistakable. “I’d been making plans for two centuries, my darling girl. I set the wheels into motion a long time ago. The first piece of the puzzle came together in New Orleans with a woman named Elizabe...