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“Who’s Benedict?” he demanded. “You better not be cheating on me, Mariah!”
“Are you kidding me? We split up months ago when I found you in bed with my cousin! You have the bare-faced cheek to tell me that when you cheated on me and I kicked your deceiving ass to the kerb! Benedict!” Mariah almost wailed.
“Get out!” Benedict bellowed, appearing in thin air.
Mariah’s mouth dropped open as only the top half of Benedict showed, his waist fading away to bloody entrails. Oh gross. If he’d done that to her, she might have had a heart attack. Benedict raised his hands and made them claws as Tom stared at him bug-eyed.
“Leave or die!” Benedict moaned, twisting in the space between Mariah and Tom.
“Mariah, your inn is haunted. You need an exorcism before I move in,” Tom stuttered.
Mariah slapped a hand to her forehead. Even now, Tom wasn’t leaving.
“Benedict, do your worst!” Mariah muttered. “This is my pet ghost, and he likes to eat people!” Mariah announced firmly.
His skin melted from his face and arms as Tom stared in horror. Benedict flicked a bony finger, and Tom rose off the floor with a screech. Floating through the air, Benedict tugged his victim behind him into the bar, where the workmen stopped and watched. Benedict shoved Tom’s head in a bucket of dirty water and then wrapped blood tendrils around him, pulling him slowly closer. Oh, you go Benedict, Mariah silently cheered.
“So hungry, need flesh, hunger,” Benedict moaned as Tom’s self-preservation finally kicked in, and he began struggling.
“Let go!” Tom bellowed as Benedict’s jaws dropped open and his teeth shot forward.
“Must obey mistress, feed me!” Benedict groaned and threw Tom side to side a few times.
“Mariah! Tell him! I’ll leave!” Tom yelled as he spotted Mariah watching.
“My ghost is hungry. He’s not eaten for a while. I don’t allow him to dine on the workers as they work for me for free. Benedict needs to eat, and nobody will miss you! And no one here would speak in your defence. Otherwise, Benedict would eat them too!”
“I apologise, honest baby. Sorry for cheating and for coming. Let me go, and you’ll never see me again!” Tom begged.
Mariah struggled to hold her laughter as Benedict leaned closer and snapped his jaws at Tom before a rotting tongue licked him.
Tom screamed, and Mariah crossed her legs, so she didn’t wet herself laughing!
“Swear you will not come back!” Mariah demanded.
“Yes. If I do, he can eat me!” Tom babbled as Benedict’s face with strands of rotting flesh sniffed around his.
“Benedict, I command you to let him go. Throw him on the street where he deserves to be!” Mariah ordered.
“I don’t know what horror show you’re running, Mariah, but you’ll regret losing me!” Tom yelled, some of his vanity coming back.
Benedict roared, opened his mouth, and swarmed over Tom, dropping him on his ass as he did so. Benedict faded to nothing as he left Tom completely slimed up before reappearing, grabbing him by the collar, and launching him into the street.
The doors and shutters slammed shut as Benedict turned around the startled workers.
“Dude, that was a show and a half!” one finally said, clapping.
Benedict morphed back to his body and took a bow.
“I wish I’d filmed that. It was freaking excellent!” another spoke.
“That was totally out of this world! Man, what a fright show!” the foreman added.
Mariah’s laughter was out of control as she hung onto the bar and cried. She seriously needed the toilet but didn’t dare move in case she peed.
“Did you see his face? Cheating ass he is?” Mariah sobbed, wiping her eyes as she struggled to breathe. “Benedict, that was amazing! What a performance. So funny!”
“My pleasure!” Benedict murmured as Mariah made a mad dash for the apartment.
