Page 30 of Their Darkest Needs

There are gurgling noises coming out its mouth and it's staring very angrily at us.

Felix injects Taylor to make her go calm. Once she's knocked out, he places a small black fabric pouch in her hand. “I got one for you too, keep it on you,” he tells me. I don’t know what it is, but it seems important, so I’ll stuff it in my pocket. He smellsof garlic and his hair is all messy like he’s been going through it hundreds of times.

He opens a paper that was in his sweater pocket and starts to read it out loud. I don’t recognise the language and it seems to upset Mara a lot since it started screaming and yelling.

“You think this will stop me?” Its voice is deep and male-like. The sound of it makes Felix stop for a second. He seems to get out of his daze not long after and starts to read it again.

Sancte Michael Archangele, defende nos in praelio. Contra nequitiam et insidias diaboli esto praesidium. Imperet illi Deus, supplices deprecamur. Tuque princeps militiae caelestis, Satanam aliosque spiritus malignos, qui ad perditionem animarum pervagantur in mundo divina virtute in infernum detrude.

Amen.

The thing is screeching, and then Mara’s body falls down and starts to convulse.

There’s black liquid coming out of the mouth, ears, nose, and eyes. I keep looking at it while Felix repeats the same words over and over again.

The body stops shaking and the black liquid starts pooling together, making Felix get into action and grab the small pot, placing it on the floor right inside of the circle.

The black stuff starts to go to it; it’s like it’s pulling it to it.

We both wait until it’s all inside of it when Felix quickly closes the cork on it and grabs a white candle, burning it and making the wax fall drip down, sealing it.

Okay so that just happened. Does this mean it’s over?

Felix wipes the sweat of his brow and starts to laugh.

“Holy shit that worked!” I laugh with him because what the hell was that?

That wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be. Thank God!

Ilook next to me, seeing Taylor’s sleeping form lying there. I have never felt as peaceful as I do now. I smile to myself, that thing is really gone!

Once Felix had everything sealed, we reburied her body where it’s supposed to be and cleaned up the entire room while Taylor was sleeping in bed. He gave the vial to his ‘friend’, who I still don’t know, but he assured me there was no safer spot than with her.

We were both unsure how Taylor would be waking up, so Felix stayed to make sure she was going to be okay.

Once she finally woke, she didn’t remember anything. It was like it was completely removed from her head. The last thing she remembered was being at the funeral and then all black. I made new doctor’s appointments for her, and Adelina agreed to dosessions once a week because we both decided it might be better for her that way.

I turn off the TV and pick up Taylor to carry her to the bed.

Once I’m finally in the room, I tuck her in and go to the bathroom and brush my teeth so I can go to bed too.

I switch off the bathroom light and walk to the bedroom.

A sudden loud hiss scares the living shit out of me and I notice the grey cat laying on the bed, partly draped over Taylor's sleeping body. What the hell, how did it get inside now? “Shush, you! Get away from her!” I whisper-shout at it.

The cat makes angry noises and shows its teeth at me again. It better not scratch Taylor, because then I’ll turn it into a new coat!

I grab the angry cat by the neck, lifting it up while it tries to claw at me, and walk downstairs to the front door,opening it so I can put it back outside.

I really need to check the house for any ways it could be getting inside, but that’s for tomorrow. Now I’m going to go to bed and sleep with my beautiful wife.

BAMM BAMM

Sweat drips down my brow as I jump up. I look next to me and notice Taylor is no longer lying in bed next to me. I touch the sheets to see if she left a while ago, and the coldness of it tells me it’s been a while now.

“What the hell now?” I murmur to myself. I grab the gun on the nightstand next to the little pouch Felix had given me when we got rid of that thing, and walk downstairs slowly.

GRRRRRRRAARGG

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