DREADFUL DESIRES
Black Smoke Moon
Part II: The Dead of Night
Content warning: This story contains explicit content and supernatural sex that may offend some readers. All depicted characters are 18 years or older.
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Chapter 5: Dangerous Games
Serena ran until her lungs burned, and then she kept running.
Nothing stirred or dashed off beneath her pounding footsteps. No cricket chirrups sang through the darkness between the Ponderosa pines. No lush pine needles above, just thin, spiky branches jutting from the blackened tree trunks. A cold cemetery wind swept past her shoulders and caught her silver hair in a fluttering torrent. Burnt, silent, the ashen remains of a wildfire underfoot. Thick black clouds roiled above the treetops.
The silence broke into a giggle, faint and childish beneath the night wind. Serena skidded to a stop and stared this way and that between the trees, amber eyes wide. Still nothing. The titter rose again, closer. She held her breath and reached into the back pocket of her cutoff shorts.
She hadn’t felt the pink smartphone in her pocket buzzing, but its cracked screen now flashed with a kaleidoscope string of lights. It glowed crimson, then deep, dark blue, and now…
