Gray Days by Hailey Edwards EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Hailey Edwards
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- Genre: Paranormal & Urban Fantasy
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Most adults outgrow the monsters of their childhood, real or
imagined, but some will check under their beds now and then
before they close their eyes for the rest of their lives. Just to be safe. Just to
be sure.
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Me?
I might as well be down on my hands and knees, gazing under my bed
into the abyss, unsure if I ought to pray that the glowing red eyes of my
personal boogeyman blinked awake for me or never opened again.
Where are you, old man?
“Director.”
Without a body, without hard proof he had been slain, I might never
sleep again.
“Director.”
Not when I was standing on the granite shore beneath a cliff where a
small girl once walked up to a grim mansion that would never be her home
and became one of the very monsters that had tormented her. Not even the
relentless midday sun beating down on me could thaw the chill from my
bones.
“He’s talking to you, Dollface.” Clay braced a steadying hand on my
shoulder. “You’re the director now.”
“Interim director.” I reeled my gaze in from the churning waves and
turned it on the spindly man. “Yes?”
“We pulled four more bodies from the rubble.” He blinked vertical lids.
“One survivor.”
Immortality was great, in theory, but there were downsides. Say, a
building falling on your head, pinning you to the ocean floor, where your
regenerative abilities healed you as fast as the saltwater rushing into your
lungs drowned you all over again.
The spindly man lingered, waiting on me to ask, which I did with a sigh.
“Any sign of him?”
Him.
The director.
My grandfather.
We had no hard evidence he had survived, and yet…
The tipline we set up for locating missing agents, those who decided
now was a great time to go AWOL, had netted us sightings of him too. With
Bjorn. That I could believe. His toady was always lurking nearby. But a
frost giant in Florida? Even leashed to the director, that was a stretch.
“No, Director.” His unnerving eyes blinked again. “We have yet to
locate him.”
As dread crept over my skin, raising gooseflesh, I became that much
more convinced he wasn’t there for them to find. I doubted he was in
Florida, but I bet he was somewhere other than the bottom of the sea.
“Go on up with your team.” I indicated the lift to base camp. “Get some
hot soup and coffee down you.”
We had heated tents set up on the broken road above us that led…
nowhere now…where divers, medics, and agents lending a (mandatory)
hand after reporting in for roll call, could warm up with hot foods and
beverages to combat the chill of thirty-seven-degree water.
Another slow blink lapsed before the spindly man lowered his eyes to
his webbed feet. “Yes, Director.”
As he backed away, he kept stealing glances at me like he couldn’t
believe his luck I hadn’t punished him for failing to locate the director, or
his remains.
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