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A Friday the 13^th Story #7

Some mirrors don’t just reflect the world.

They trap souls.

And once you look in... something else might be looking back.

Cari peeked around a window frame, her gaze scanning the large empty room with a huge vacant China cupboard until she glimpsed the chalk outline on the foyer floor. She held back a small sob. A shadow caught the corner of her eye and she sprung away from the window, a breath lodged in her throat.

Counting slowly to ten to calm her racing heart, she chanced looking again in time to see Jax go to his knees and begin cleaning up the outline of the victim. As he continued scrubbing, Cari’s gaze traveled over to the mirror behind him. A shadow reflected eerily in the antique glass when a cloud moved across the sun behind her.

She gasped. For a fleeting moment, she could have sworn there was a face staring back at her from deep inside one of the fractured pieces of the mirror. When she blinked, the image was gone as quickly as it had appeared.

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THIRTEEN REFLECTIONS

A Friday the 13^th Story #7

 Some mirrors don’t just reflect the world.

They trap souls.

And once you look in... something else might be looking back.

“You need to move your car. This is a crime scene,” the handsome dark-haired man with a far too serious look said with an air of privileged authority.
     “By whose authority? I’m parked on the street, not on the property,” she huffed, daring him to challenge her.
     “This is my property, and you need to get off of it,” the man quietly ordered, his gaze piercing hers.
     “I’m supposed to meet someone here,” Cari said, pulling out a slip of paper from her notebook. “A man by the name of Jackson F. Clairmont.”
     “And you are?”
     “Carousel Ryder, I’ve been doing research on the disappearance of Felicity Firestone in the 1800s.” Cari answered, closing her notebook. “Do you know Mr. Clairmont?”

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(A Friday the 13^th Story #7)

Some mirrors don’t just reflect the world.

They trap souls.

And once you look in... something else might be looking back. 

Jax knew her words meant exactly what they were intended to. She was in fact accusing him of possibly hampering the investigation of whatever happened at Ravenclaw tonight. 

He was used to it. Everyone always seemed to accuse him of being able to keep his family name out of the papers. Sometimes with success thanks to the cameras and security alarms he’d had installed. But tonight wasn’t going to be one of those times.

This time, someone died, and he’d have to explain how the young lady had made her way into his ancestral home. A home that hadn’t had a living soul in it for more years than he could count.

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