Dark Desires: Dark Erotic Tales (23 page)

That's when the baby began to cry.

Danielle's eyes opened involuntarily and she peeked at Toinette. She cast aside the folds of the black cape she was wearing and it became apparent she was holding a Caucasian, crying baby.

"DANIELLE! DANIELLE! DO NOT LISTEN TO HER!" Aurélle cried desperately.

But her eyes were now locked with
Toinette's. Toinette grinned again. "I got yo' baaaabaaaae," she crooned.

"NNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Danielle screamed.

"Come on
chile, I'll hand her over, jus' come on out the circle," Toinette whispered her evil encouragement.

Sobbing, Danielle crawled toward the edge of the circle.

"WAIT!" Auréle screamed. "Wait… I'll give you what you want, Toinette. Just don't hurt her. Or her baby," he pleaded, as he slowly stepped over the circle of burning candles. His shoulders slumped, every part of him demonstrating the despair of defeat.

Toinette laughed a shrieking, unhinged sound enough to chill the dead. "FINALLY!" she screamed. She laid the baby on the floor and the baby shrieked as well. Danielle's head spun as she watched her lover kneel onto his knees before Toinette, tears pouring down his face.

And then she spotted a large shard of glass, lying on the floor right outside the circle, from an attic window that had broken in the earlier display of banging windows and doors. Danielle frantically scurried to the edge of the circle, reached out and snatched up the glass. The shard bit into the flesh of her hand but she wasn't even aware of the pain as the blood poured.

"No! No Auréle!" she declared with a sudden confidence that came from someplace deep inside her.

She knew how to break the spell.

She plunged the glass into her stomach.

"NOOOOOOOO!" Toinette screamed, dropping to her knees. The last thing Danielle saw was Toinette's beautiful face warping and contorting into the ancient, deformed face of a Devil.

And then Danielle died.

Part 4: Blessed Be

"Thank you for freeing my beloved people once again, my darling," said Pascaline Mantagne. "I've been with you all your life; I knew you would be the one to free them."

Joyful tears slipped down the flawless face of Danielle Mantagne as she stood face to face with her own great great grandmother who was the picture perfect replica of her. Pascaline carefully embraced her granddaughter, in a way as not to disturb the baby sleeping in Danielle's arms.

"And you," she told Auréle, caressing his face. "I'm so proud of you, always. I've watched you too. And I'll watch you both, always."

Auréle hugged Pascaline with one arm, leaving the other arm tightly around Danielle. "We'll not be going with you?" Auréle asked.

Pascaline cast a bright smile on the newly formed forever family. "Not this time children. I'm finally able to return and bring my folks home. But you, you get to stay behind here in your own personal Heaven; Mantagne Winds, with no Toinette. No evil.
Only joy while you love each other and the baby. Forever."

One by one each of the freed slaves stopped in front of Auréle and Danielle, hugging them, giving tearful thanks. An amazing sight was watching when they finally turned and followed Pascaline slowly, disappearing into the trees.

The End

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