His Dark Obsession by Moonlight Muse

28. In the Crypt

ZEDKIEL.

“Maybe if I can get in and try to see if something is stuck…” Zlahra says, falling to her knees and peering into the tiny opening.

“None of us are going to fit down there.” I say, unease filling me.

“And you may be the smallest of us all, but I think you forget that your ass is far from tiny.” Kash says bending down beside her.

“Piss off.” She hisses, shoving him right where he’s injured.

He curses as he clutches his shoulder and looks forward again.

“Force won’t work. The building is in ruins.” Ziahra says, looking up.

“Let’s try to pry it open.” I suggest, letting go of Evelyn’s hand as she steps back silently.

It takes the four of us to pry the sandstone entrance open, pulling and pushing the rocks that should have repositioned themselves.

I hear something crack and break and the stones begin moving again and we all move back.

“Thank the gods,” Ziahra says.

“More like us for getting it working. You were giving up hope, remember?” Kash reminds her arrogantly.

“I doubt you did any of the hard work. You’re pretty useless with that injury.” She taunts him back as she edges forward.

That darkness I can feel, the chilling, sinister vibe of this place growing stronger.

“Should we draw straws to see who goes first?” Kash mocks and exhales done with his antics.

Can he not feel the evil? He smirks as he pushes past me.

“I’ll lead.” He offers, brushing past Ziahra who was about to take her first step. He smirks mockingly at her.

“I do hope you fall and break that face of yours.” She sneers.

“You sure you want to ruin this face?”

What the fuck is with these two?

He confidently takes the first few steps. Ziahra steps onto the first step slowly, the stone crumbling from beneath her feet.

hold your hand?” Kash

fine.

be in your presence.” Kash shoots back. “Even the dead would rise to get away

talking and I will push you.” She snaps,

grabbing the walls for balance, and

back at the entrance, the weight of the situation once again

following Kash down, her vampire comrade right behind

step in next, and

to be ok.”

She nods.

ending and I don’t let go

Ziahra says a single word, and torches held in sconces come alive,

it clear that we are not just

stare at the twelve tombs that fill the room. Each

open, the lid leaning

will be putting me in there?” Evelyn asks, and for the first time, I think I see fear in her eyes as she steps

yet.” Ziahra replies as she heads to the

yet.” Evelyn breathes as Ziahra began lighting some old candles that sat

crypt? This screams dark

call the ancient arts something as

can’t really stop me…”

you down here instead of her.” She shoots back, her eyes darting to the tombs. “That one there looks cosy and

puts him off. His gaze flickers to Evelyn and t think I see the flash of sympathy in his eyes, but it’s

the large black stone coffin that’s being strangled in dead vines

cobwebs and critters.

on the tomb… Was there a time when this place breathed any bit of life in

the surface, the air

in there?” Ziahra remarks, as she finishes

cocks a brow. “You really are coated in sugar,

be, shame you will be covered in spiders and who knows what else, if you don’t shut your face hole.” She

I growl, my eyes flashing red.

feeling aren’t helping with these two constantly at one another’s

turns to the

“Gray…”

a name

I’d have to give him one for her

head to acknowledge that he is

to make sure to carry