Skipping a few paragraphs from last week.
These dreams or visions began the night the lawyer placed the keys to the family estate in her hands. Her gaze landed on the item in question laying on her dresser as harmless as any keys would be and yet she knew those keys would unlock secrets best kept hidden.
"Are the dreams a warning then?" she asked her reflection in the mirror then shook her head. "Stop it, Briar or you'll end up like your father—seeing omens at every turn." She grabbed the item in question and tossed them into her purse. She had to hurry if she were to sneak out of the house before her father decided to drag himself out of bed. She wanted to avoid any last-minute confrontations. Her father made it perfectly clear he didn't want her to go to New Orleans. Too bad for him. He forfeited the estate when he refused it and now the deed fell to her.
(A little more ...)
She hurried down the stairs only to come to a halt at the bottom step. Her father stood there, leaning against the front door as if he could bar her from leaving.
She took a cleansing breath and readied herself for the heated banter that was soon to come. "Good morning, Father. It's a bit early for you, isn't it?"
"Don't go." His rough voice pleaded.
God, she should have left last night after he had gone to bed. "Why?" she asked. "And don't say it's because of the curse, a crutch you use for your benefit."
"Don't you get it?" he asked, his voice broke and his eye shone as if tears were about to spill. "It's all about the curse the voodoo woman cast on Maureen and Colm McDonald, my family and yours. The house in New Orleans reeks of evil. Heartache and death for all who reside there." "You left the house behind and just look at you." She waved a hand at him in disgust. Her father had once been a handsome man but he’d been slowly drinking himself to death for a decade and the results showed in the sickly pallor of his skin, and lately more than not it showed in his work.
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I feel for her father. He’s in the unenviable position of being the guy who’s right but nobody will listen.
The man seems to be in a terrible condition. Intriguing in several ways.
so many questions. is there a curse. why the drinking. why’s she so determined to go … great snippet.