The Medium's Bargain
You came to exorcise a ghost—but it's your mother, and the billionaire who hired you knows your darkest secret.
As a professional medium, you've made a career of faking séances for the wealthy—until a real ghost answers. Hired to cleanse a billionaire's haunted mansion, you find the spirit is your own mother, trapped between worlds with a secret that binds you both. Now you must choose: finish the job and condemn her soul, or defy the billionaire who threatens to expose you as a fraud. With your reputation and your mother's fate on the line, every séance becomes a high-stakes gamble in this dark, haunting romance.
The story begins
The séance room smelled of beeswax and decay. You pressed your fingers to the cold marble of the round table, feeling the familiar grooves you'd carved yourself—tiny channels meant to guide a hidden thread. The billionaire sat across from you, his tailored suit a stark blade of darkness against the velvet-draped walls. His eyes never left your face.
"I sense a presence," you said, letting your voice drop to a practiced hush. "A woman. She's angry."
Theo Rex's jaw tightened almost imperceptibly. Good. You'd read him right—the family portraits in the hall, the way he flinched at the word "mother" during your tour. This was going to be easy.
Then the candles guttered. All at once, not one by one.
The temperature plunged. Your breath came out in a silver cloud, and the thread beneath your fingers went taut—except you hadn't pulled it. The table lurched. A voice, thin and familiar as your own heartbeat, whispered from the shadows behind you.
"You always were a clever liar, my girl."
Your mother's voice. Your mother's words.
Theo Rex smiled, slow and cold, and folded his hands on the table. "Well, medium. It seems you've finally found something real."
What happens next is up to you.
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