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“Honey, I am so sorry,” Lindsey soothed.
“Men… evil,”the voice groaned, and Cowboy screeched loudly as the figure flew at them.
“What an awful thing to happen to her. She must have died here,” Thalia figured out.
“Shall we see if we can find her again?” Lindsey asked.
“No!” Lex said firmly. Several others agreed with him—all men.
“Well, run along. I’m not leaving,” Thalia stated.
Lindsey nodded.
Chance sighed. Mutiny, that was what this was. Motioning to the girls to continue, they searched the ward for another hour and found nothing. The ghost had stopped speaking to them.
Finally, Lindsey insisted they check the ward above them. Which caused a meltdown in Wraith and Cowboy when more bats attacked.
“Put their asses in a room, and we’ll carry on and collect them on the way out,” Chance ordered when both men refused to move.
Lex and Levi found a bat-free room and shoved them in it before rejoining the main group.
“Are you here?” Lindsey called. “I’m a mother too. I can’t imagine your pain.”
Nothing happened, for which Chance was thankful. He couldn’t disbelieve his eyes, but he’d seen that figure forming.
They had just reached the final room when twin screams and a long, high-pitched wail greeted them. For a second, they all froze, and then they darted towards where they’d left Cowboy and Wraith.
As they ran down the hallways, two more shrieks met them, full of fear. A loud cackle followed—one of revenge and darkness. Heart thumping in his chest, Chance flew into the room where Cowboy and Wraith had been and found them huddled together in a corner.
“If you tell me bats—” Chance thundered.
“Behind you!” Cowboy shrieked, and Chance winced. He turned, and his jaw dropped open. For a brief second, he saw her clearly. A long, tattered white gown, wild brown hair. A pale face and darkened eyes and lips pulled back in a terrible smile. Her hands reached out, fingers clawed, and Chance felt a scratch on his arm.
Moments later, Texas ran into the room and straight through the spirit, who screeched and disappeared. Texas visibly shuddered and did a crazy dance as he wafted his arms in the air.
Cowboy and Wraith lost their heads, leapt to their feet, and belted past all of them at a full run. Chance cursed and took off after them. He couldn’t leave two prospects running around this place. Both Cowboy and Wraith hollered again as they hit the bottom of the stairs, with Chance not far behind.
Bats flew over them, and the already scared prospects, freaked the fuck out.
Punches flailing uselessly, they took to their heels as Chance gave chase, shouting for them to stop.
Neither obeyed, and they burst through the institute’s doors and kept running. Two figures appeared from nowhere and took them down, and both Cowboy and Wraith hit the ground fighting. Axel punched Wraith once while Rooster head-butted Cowboy as he reared up. Chance caught them up as both prospects subsided and blinked into the night sky.
“I’m too old for this shit,” Chance muttered, panting. The doors crashed open again as the rest of his team spilled into the night and started jogging towards them.
“What the fuck happened in there?” Rooster demanded.
“We could hear their screams over the radio,” Axel said as Dave and Jason approached.
“Think the entire state heard them,” Chance complained, glowering at the prospects lying flat on the ground.
“Everyone was radioing in,” Jason added with a smirk.
“We knew it was your team when nobody responded. What happened?” Dave asked.
“We met the wailing woman. And communicated with her. And those two met some bats,” Lindsey said in disgust.
Cowboy and Wraith shook their heads and started babbling. They explained how the ghost had appeared as an innocent young lady and then turned into this fiendish creature that made them bellow.
