“I’ll be waiting to serve you.”
Proserpine stroked the
girl’s blonde hair, then gently pinched her cheek. “Be
seeing you, darling.”
She blew a kiss at the
girl, and Christine shook her head, smiled at her friends and then walked off
down the street with them flanking her. Just a normal, happy
eleven-year-old, heading off home to her loving family.
* * *
Jack Nightingale
appears in the full-length novels Nightfall, Midnight, Nightmare, Nightshade
and Lastnight and in the short stories Still Bleeding and Cursed. He has his
own website at www.jacknightingale.com
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