Sisters: A Tale of Good & Evil

Sisters: A Tale of Good & Evil

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Louella and Davina Mitchell are identical twins, but that's where it ends. Where Davina is filled with desire to help and respect others, Louella is filled with hate and debauchery in all aspects of life. The only thing they agree on is their hate for each other. When Louella tries to rob Davina of her inheritance, things start to backfire and her world comes tumbling down around her. Filled with supernatural creatures, magic, and time travel, this steamy, sexy paranormal romance/thriller will capture your attention from cover to cover.

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Chapter 1

Chapter 1

“There is an old saying, ‘Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.’   I think the saying stops before completing the thought. It should be, ‘Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it in a totally unexpected way and an unbelievably different form’.”

Dr. Joseph Covington said nothing as he continued to move his pen over the pad of paper he kept propped against the highest point of his bent knee as his long, lean leg rested across the top of his other leg. He looked far more comfortable than Davina felt.  She shifted in her seat as she waited for him to say something, anything.  If he didn’t soon she promised herself she’d reach over and grab that pen right from his boney hand.

When he finally uncrossed his legs, leaned forward to better focus on her and questioned whether she felt she’d gotten what she asked for, she was so elated to finally hear him speak that she didn’t bother to get upset by his question. It wasn’t until he asked her to reiterate on why she felt she’d gotten what she’d asked for that she blew a gasket.

“I’ve been here for the better part of an hour telling you just that and you want me to repeat it?   I thought you were keeping notes.  What have you been doing?  Doodling?”

She lept from the sofa with the intention of seeing exactly what was on that pad of paper, but the good doctor sprang to life with the speed of a panther ready to pounce on his prey. He hugged the pad as if he was afraid of losing it as he stood with his narrow chest heaving, full cheeks flushed, and grey eyes bulging with emotion beneath his thick, black glasses. “I’ve had just about enough of your outbursts, young lady. It is not for you to decide or dictate how these sessions will go. If I choose to have you repeat your story one-hundred times, it is my prerogative.”

Her neatly shaped brows furrowed over watery violet eyes, and her full lips puckered together in disappointment beneath her straight Greek nose as she dropped back onto the sofa.  She was completely mindless of what her disregard for her body weight of one-hundred- twenty-five-pounds plummeting onto the inner-springs of the seating with such force might do to them. She was so frustrated with him at that moment that she’d happily damage his entire office and feel justified in doing so. Was he even a real doctor?  At this point, she had her doubts.

“Do you expect me to start at the beginning?” she asked with a sarcastic flair.

“Let’s remember why you’re here, shall we?” Dr. Covington said with a sneer. “Your antics have caused you to become a ward of this facility. Part of the procedure of re-habilitating you is for you to visit me once a week to discuss why you are here and see how we can adjust your behavior so that you can re-enter society. I’m aware that you don’t care for me and wish to be somewhere… anywhere else, but the fact of the matter is you’re stuck here. So, if you want to cease being required to visit my office, you will hold that tongue of yours and do as I ask.” He leaned forward to emphasize his words.  “All that I ask. Otherwise, I might deem it necessary to meet more than once a week.  Perhaps, daily?”

She sat back and glowered. How had it come to this?  What happened to put her in such a position? Louella had finally found her golden reason to do away with her.  It wasn’t death, but it might as well be. She knew, deep down, that her sister intended on keeping her here where she’d be out of the way and required to depend upon Louella as her proxy in all matters.  As hard as she tried, she couldn’t remember beyond the last six months that brought her to being institutionalized.

She’d been accused of murdering a man she called T. J.  The problem was that she couldn’t remember ever meeting this man and there was no body to prove that he’d been murdered.  In fact, when she asked her lawyer, Edward Murry, Esq., to investigate the situation, but he informed her that it was impossible without his full name. Unfortunately, Davina’s paranoia over her sister’s prying eyes prevented her from entering it into her journal. All she had was a few photographs of herself with this very handsome man that Davina suspected were expertly photoshopped.  Of course, Louella’s team of clever and crooked lawyers ran circles around poor Edward at every turn and they managed to expound upon the photos instead of the false name and lack of birth information.  They even managed to produce an expert to testify that the pictures weren’t photoshopped, but were very real. Since the sim card that the pictures were on was produced, Davina had no recourse but to accept their legitimacy.

How clever Louella was.

Because the accusations of murder were just that; accusations by a sibling who claimed to have met her lover and insisted that he mysteriously disappeared while in her company, she hadn’t been tried and sentenced.  Not by a judge and jury, anyway.  Her family had done it by committing her to a privately owned and operated mental institution.  Although, those in charge cleverly labeled it a recovery house, it was nothing more than a prison for those whose wealthy families wanted to get someone out of the way… like Louella had done with her.  In her brief stay, Davina had met more than one poor victim of such an act. One woman just completed her thirtieth year there. It seemed very few recovered in this state of the art recovery house.

It was her twin sister, Louella, and her band of lawyers who was behind having her committed. She’d been looking for a way to be rid of Davina since they turned twenty-one two years ago, and their inheritance came into effect.  You’d think that splitting three million dollars plus the estate and vineyard would have been sufficient for Louella, but it wasn’t. Unlike Davina, who was generous to a fault, Louella wanted it all; lock, stock, and barrel.  That meant finding a way to be free of Davina. 

Short of killing her, this was the next

best thing.  With Davina deemed unsound of mind, Louella gained power of attorney over her sister’s half of the inheritance. It was her goal to keep Davina in the hospital until she had the good sense to roll over and die. One of her methods was to make sure that she was treated by the ever so incompetent and easily bribed Dr. Covington.  Between his diagnosis and the drugs that they pumped into Davina at a level that was just enough to make her seem out of it without seeming drugged, she was sure confident she’d managed to be free of her. Her sister had managed to find a doctor who was just as greedy and crooked as she was.

Where Louella had purposefully retained some of the most ruthless and conscience free lawyers she could find upon her twenty-first birthday to help her manage her inheritance, Davina had stayed with the old attorney her father used while alive.  He was extremely knowledgeable when it came to her inheritance, but was worthless defending her sanity against the false accusations her sister’s lawyers peppered her with.  It was like

sending a lamb to slaughter.

The fact that Louella had managed to convince her two aunts to support her claim that Davina was unstable didn’t help matters.  Her aunts were loving souls who would never deliberately want to hurt either of their nieces.  It was unfortunate that they couldn’t see through Louella’s façade whenever they were around.  They believed her wicked twin to be a loving and caring angel instead of Satan in disguise as Davina depicted her to be.  It was because of Davina’s mistake in trying to get them to see the truth – combined with her loss of memory for the last year- that they backed Louella with the idea of committing her for her own well-being.

It was all because she had no recollection of this guy.  Nor could she remember the year of her life when she was supposedly with him. It didn’t help that as soon as her mind began to clear, they’d pump a pill down her or come at her with a needle, but it wasn’t the reason she couldn’t remember.  Her memory lapse began long before that.

Realizing she had no choice, she, once again, told the good doctor the last recollection she had before she woke up in her room six months ago, naked and wet with no

recollection as to why. 

Her sister claimed that she’d befriended a young man and things were getting serious with him to the point she expected an engagement to happen. If that was the case, wouldn’t she remember such a man? Not only couldn’t she remember him, but she couldn’t recall the year she’d supposedly spent in his company. It was as if she’d gone to sleep and awoken twelve months later. 

The very last thing she remembered was taking a long walk through the vineyard. It was something she did often. It helped her to think and relax; as well as brought back memories of happier days before her mother and father had that terrible automobile accident that took their lives.

Dr. Covington scratched his chin as he waited for silence between them. After waiting long enough to give his words the best dramatic effect, he asked, “Why is it then, Davina, that you feel you’ve gotten what you’ve asked for. Did you want your parents dead?”

“I loved my parents. Don’t ever say that.  I wanted to be free of my sister.  With my parent’s gone, she’s out of control.  She should be the one in here, not me.”

“Why is that?”

“She’s greedy.  She’ll do anything to get it all.  She wants everything

we’ve inherited. Her share and mine.” Davina smirked and gave a slight chuckle.  “It’s embarrassing at times.”

“Your sister embarrasses you?”

“At times.” Davina looked at him quizzically.

“Didn’t I just say that?”

The timer went off just as he was about to reply.  It was like a scene from a high school television show.  He picked up his precious pad of paper and stood up abruptly. “That’s the bell. Time’s up. I’ll see you next week.”

With that, he hustled her out of his office and closed the door behind her.

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39 Chapters
Chapter 1
“There is an old saying, ‘Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.’   I think the saying stops before completing the thought. It should be, ‘Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it in a totally unexpected way and an unbelievably different form’.”Dr. Joseph Covington said nothing as he continued to move his pen over the pad of paper he kept propped against the highest point of his bent knee as his long, lean leg rested across the top of his other leg. He looked far more comfortable than Davina felt.  She shifted in her seat as she waited for him to say something, anything.  If he didn’t soon she promised herself she’d reach over and grab that pen right from his boney hand.When he finally uncrossed his legs, leaned forward to better focus on her and questioned whether she felt she’d gotten what she asked for, she was so elated to finally hear him speak that she didn’
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Chapter 2
Louella relaxed in a chair at the bistro table that was strategically placed on the veranda of their Tuscany inspired family home to allow the afternoon sun to warm whoever sat there during the fall and winter months while enjoying an afternoon glass of a new aromatic white wine from her recently inherited vineyard. She smiled with satisfaction over the events of the week. She’d managed to convince her aunts to back her in having Davina committed to the Sunrise Sanitarium.  Not that she needed them to accomplish it, but the fact that they supported her decision gave more validity to it.  One never knew when something like that might come in handy.She was a person who was careful to dot her ‘i’s’ and crossed her ‘t’s’ in life.  Unlike her twin sister, she took her time to plan out important moves. It was because of her patience, diligence, and devotion to details that she was able to seize the opportunity Davina’s
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Chapter 3
Davina paced the floor in front of her window while she watched her aunt walk down the flower lined sidewalk to the car that awaited her.  A tall, slender man she knew to be Tillie’s driver pulled his body from where he was leaning against the car as he rushed to open the back door and help her slide onto the back seat. When he closed the door, he looked up at her window.  Was that a smirk of recognition on his face?  She wasn’t sure, but it was enough to make her back away quickly.She’d tried to convince her aunt to help her get free of the institution, but to no avail. Believing that her brother’s child was where she needed to be to get the help required to heal her fragile mental state, her aunt’s visit had been to provide her with a few of her belongings to help make her more comfortable while in her new environment. Davina was tempted to accuse Tillie of knowing that Louella intended to keep her there permanently and the croo
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Chapter 4
Louella pushed her way across the crowded dance floor while never taking her eyes off her target.   Valkyr Draken was a man she’d avoided having contact with due to his perilous reputation.   That was about to change.  She needed help that only he could give.  Sure, there were others in the city, but she didn’t know who they were.  He was the only one she knew she could turn to for immediate help in a crisis. So, she put on her best poker face and braved the crowd.  She was determined to solicit his help, no matter the cost.His dark eyes hinted of amusement as he watched her battle through the drug induced dancers.  They barely noticed as she pushed and shoved them out of her way with such aggression that many lost their balance; yet they continued to dance.  It was as if they were under some type of spell.  In a way, they were.  The mild blend of ecstasy and tik that was slipped in minute amounts into e
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Chapter 5
Louella immediately poured herself a scotch after limping from the car to the house.  She’d been used to the point of worrying about her welfare, but they were clearly adept at taking their victims to the brink of injury without really injuring them.  Although she’d contemplated joining an underground S&M club, she never quite got around to it. Her little session with Valkyr and his men cured her of all curiosity on that point.  It wasn’t for her.  She preferred to be the one in charge who was doing what she wanted, when she wanted.She wasn’t sure, but she thought she’d caught a glimpse of Valkyr’s face when she could finally remove the shirt from her eyes.  She could have sworn she saw it transforming from a hideous, distorted looking thing with red eyes to his normal, handsome brown-eyed self. She shook her head as she poured a generous amount of the burning liquid down her throat.  She’d clearly i
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Chapter 6
Davina closed her journal. She’d read through the night as the pages slowly unfolded the events of the year.  Very little happened from January to April, other than the continued sightings of the couple on the edge of the forest.  She wrote that she was convinced that the couple was the spirits of her parents.  She’d never seen a spirit before and had pictured them to be less opaque than the couple she kept seeing. Even so, they had too close a resemblance to her mother and father to be anything but their spirits returned to her.  There was also the matter of them disappearing whenever she tried to get close to them.  She read the paragraph again. Although I’m convinced that the couple I keep seeing is my parents, I’m a bit frightened by it. I’ve never seen a ghost before and I don’t know as I care to. They were killed in a car crash, but at least they aren’t appearing to me all bashed up lik
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Chapter 7
When Davina returned to her room a few hours later, she was shocked to find Louella standing in the center of complete disarray. “What have you done?”“Where is it?” Louella huffed.“What are you talking about?” Davina moaned as she raced to salvage journals that were tossed in a way as to damage the binding.  “You’ve destroyed my room.  Damn, even the bed’s been pulled apart.  What’s wrong with you?”“I know Tillie brought it to you.  Hand it over,” Louella practically growled.“You need to leave,” Davina said in a tone that caused Louella’s brows to raise in surprise.“For someone who’s locked up in the looney bin by my authority, do you really want to threaten me?”“What difference does it make?  You’ll never let me out, anyway,” Davina said vehemently.“True,” Loue
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Chapter 8
Louella slipped her cell phone back into her handbag and scowled.  She’d contacted that mealy Dr. Covington and asked to get her sister moved to another room.  She’d hoped that the journal would surface during the shift; especially if she had a small crew packing her sister up who was on the lookout for it.  The doctor had adamantly refused to cooperate.  Not only that, but he’d chastised her for trashing Davina’s room while lecturing her that her money for Davina’s stay didn’t give her carte blanche with the institute.  Since she could think of no other way to root out the journal, she was determined to get her sister moved.  Without Dr. Covington’s cooperation, she had no choice than to call in the aid of her lawyers.She’d hoped to pay a visit to Derek’s office to discuss it, but when his secretary put her call through to him, she discovered that he was just leaving a client lu
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Chapter 9
Davina’s hand flew over her heart as she read the page in her journal that told of her love affair with T. J.  Oh, how she wished she’d retained the memories of such a touching moment as what she’d written.  Her words were descriptive enough, but they still didn’t bring the full impact of the love she shared with him to the surface for her heart to savor. December 2It’s been months since I met T.J.  (I told him I keep a journal and record him as T.J. because of my spawn sister and he thinks it’s cute. ‘smile’) and returned him to his camp in the woods.  Since then, we’ve met up in the city and done such fun things like go to the zoo, walk along the river while watching the sunset, wonderful candlelight dinners, a few movies. It’s been beyond fantastic.  I haven’t invited him home for obvious reasons, so we’ve had to steal our kisses wherever and
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Chapter 10
Theo made his way down the hall to the wing where Davina’s room was located with the medications she was expected to take.  He’d managed to convince, Nancy, the floor nurse that, although he was an orderly and not a nurse, he was capable of taking the meds that they’d portioned out for her to her room and waiting to make sure that she took them.  Since they were overstaffed, Nancy gave him little resistance.Turning his head in all directions as nonchalantly as he could, he checked to make sure that no-one was watching as he slipped into the wing’s supply room.After dumping her meds down the drain of the utility sink, he pulled a packet of pills from the inside pocket of his lab coat and placed them in the small, paper cups he’d just emptied.  Then, after peeking out to make sure the coast was clear.  He stepped back out intothe corridor and continued to her room.He found her sitting in the chair by her
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