Chapter 2 "Dark Shadow"

Eric followed Christine and Raoul at a distance as they went on their afternoon ride through the forest. Eric had been able to track Christine down by threatening Raoul's lowly stable boy into telling him how to get to Raoul's family estate. Christine was invited to stay at the family estate while the Opera Populaire was being repaired from the damage of the fire. As Eric was walking, he devised a plan to somehow get rid of Raoul so he could get Christine back. Eric would stop at nothing to get his revenge and get back the woman he so desperately loved.

As Christine and Raoul rode home, she had the strangest feeling that she was being followed. She couldn't put her finger on why because every time she looked back, there was no one there. However, as the ride continued, she felt a dark shadow haunting her mind and heart, a shadow that would not go away, no matter how hard she tried to think about something else. And then, finally, she saw out of the corner of her mind, a black cloak billow and swish in the breeze as a dark figure moved positions.