Addisin walked into the bedroom, shutting the door and smiling at the view. She set the dog down on the bed and then went into the bathroom, setting the candle down on shelf at the foot of the bath tub along with the matches and turning on the taps to start the tub filling. She straightened up and turned, something catching her eye in the bathroom mirror, and she jumped, turning to look at it more fully. She frowned seeing nothing there, shaking her and muttering to herself as she went to get her peppermint bubble bath from her bag.
"Great talking to Mr. Ambrose about his grandson has me seeing things now." She mumbled, taking the bottle of her favorite indulgence into the bathroom and pouring some of the bubble bath into the stream from the faucet, inhaling deeply when the peppermint smell permeated the room. She lit the candle, tossing the match book to the back of the shelf away from the water and smiled when the scent of lilac started mixing with the peppermint.
"Nothing smells better then that. Except maybe brownies." She sighed moving back into the bedroom and opening the windows to let the breeze come in, stripping off her shirt as she went back into the bathroom, clutching it to her chest and jerking around when she thought she caught sight of something in the mirror again.
"I swear to god if you don't pull your shit together Addisin I will kick your ass." She growled to her reflection when she threw her shirt into the corner and turned back to the mirror, shaking her head to get the image she thought she had seen twice now out of her brain. There was just no way that a tall man wearing what looked like a swat uniform with long black hair falling over his face was watching her intently with a smirk on his face and his hands hooked in his vest was in the bathroom with her. And besides she had seen a glimpse of Mr. Ambrose's grandson in a picture in his home and he had shortish dirty blond hair, and no man looked as good as the one in her 'vision'. She sighed and went back into the bedroom skidding to a stop at seeing the door wide open and crossed her arms over her chest.
"This is getting ridicules." She growled and thought about slamming the door again but opted to leave it open, instead going to her suitcase and pulling out her light pink satin robe along with her small notebook and pen and carried them into the bathroom with her, folding the robe and setting it down on the corner of the sink in easy reach of the bath mat she had laid on the floor. She closed the bathroom door most of the way before stripping out of the rest of her clothes, twisting her hair on top of her head, turning the bath taps off and sinking down into the bubbles.
She sighed as the bubbles came up over her breasts and she settled back gazing out the window at the view before holding the little notebook up and starting to add things to her list. She was in the middle of writing down the various fresh herbs she wanted to get when the bathroom door moved and she raised her eyes to it watching it open slowly without blinking once until it settled against the wall. Addi brought the pen up to her mouth, setting it between her lips as she scratched her cheek with one finger, turning her head to look out the window again before looking back at the door.
"Ok that just happened didn't it?" She mumbled to herself eyeing the door like it had grown a head. She grit her teeth and slid to the foot of the bath tub, setting her notebook and pen down on the ledge before standing and stepping out of the tub not even caring that she was getting bubbles and water all over the floor and stalked over to the door. She slammed it shut and then opened it again quickly a few times before running her hand along both knobs and the closing mechanism, pushing the button in a few times before stepping back and putting her hands on her hips.
"What the fuck." She grit out again bending and running her hands over the bottom of the door, yelping and spinning around, her hand going to her ass. She knew she had felt a hand skim over the curve of her ass but of course there was no one there.
"I am freaking loosing my mind." Addi told herself turning back to the door and bended again finishing feeling up both sides looking for anything that would have let someone control the movement from anywhere else. She skimmed over both of the hinges and frowned, before running her hands up the top of the door stretching, almost plastering her body to the door to reach as far up as she could. She shivered feeling a chill pass over her entire back and around her wrists and turned quickly, pressing her back to the door, her nipples hardening as she felt a chill over them too when she turned, and she would have sworn on her step-parent's graves that she smelled chocolate, brownies to be exact.
"Ok I'll give you credit but you are not going to chase me out of this house." Addi grit out moving back toward the tub, turning around fast again as she caught sight of the same vision except he was standing by the door now.
"Fucking really Addisin? Of course there's nothing there did you really fucking think someone that looks like a damn model was going to be standing over there? Idiot." She growled at the mirror flipping herself off before climbing back into the tub and relaxing back into the bubbles and closing her eyes on a sigh. She snapped her eyes open when she felt a chill run down her neck and jumped when she felt a sting in her nipple, like someone had pinched it.
"Back in the game Addi, your letting them freak you out." She muttered, cupping her breast with her hand, her eyes drawn to the flame on the candle that was dancing like someone was breathing near it before it went out, the smoke curling lazily before shifting like someone had just walked away from near it. She grit her teeth and slid to the foot of the tub again, raising on her knees and leaning forward to get the matches.
She felt the chill along her back again moving slowly down her body and over her ass as she fumbled to light the candle once more, setting back in the bubbles quickly after grabbing her notebook. She flipped it back open and barely resisted the urge to submerge the whole thing when she read peanut M&M's on the next line of her list in a scratch that was clearly masculine.
"Ok I give the fuck up you win. I'll pack my shit and be gone in an hour!" She screamed, hitting the drain and getting out of the tub again, stalking toward the door. Her foot slid out from under her when the door slammed shut violently and she braced her self to hit the floor, twisting to her front knowing she was probably going to crack her skull on the marble as her hip and shoulder hit hard, but she felt pressure that almost felt like fingers grabbing her on both sides of her head and her cheek touched down lightly on the floor instead of slamming against it.
Addisin turned onto her back and lay on the cool floor, just staring up at the ceiling breathing heavily. Her body jerked when she felt goose bumps rise on the skin of her hip and shoulder. She wasn't sure how long she lay there, but the cold feeling on just the one side of her body never went away even after the water and soap had dried on her skin. The itching from the dried bubble bath finally pushed her to get up and she decided she needed a hot shower to not only rinse her body but also clear her mind. She would find the god damn explanation to all of this if it was the last thing she did.
She stepped under the spray and rested her head against the slate wall letting the hot water run over her body while her mind tried to process what just happened. Twenty minutes and no answers later she decided she needed to call Kelly, and turned the water off and stepped out, curling her hands into fists barely resisting the urge to scream. The bathroom door was open again and there was another small plate with a second piece of sushi sitting on it next to a brownie and a rose from one of the bushes along the porch behind both. 'I'm sorry stay' with the letter 'R' under it was written in the dew fogging up the mirror over the sink in the same scrawl that the peanut M&M's had been added to her list with.
"You could have at least said please." Addi grumbled, pulling her robe on, picking up the rose and sniffing it, before eating the sushi. She went into the bedroom and got her brush from the dresser before going back into the bathroom for the brownie. She sighed and threw up her hands, tossing the brush onto the sink, grabbed the brownie and took a huge bite, chewing it slowly as she stared at the mirror where the word 'please' had been written after stay.