The Grey Sight: An Erotic Novella Read Online Free

let a soft sigh and sat beside her.  “Breathe.  Breathe, my darling.  Take a deep breath and tell me what you know so far.”  Lily curled her legs up underneath her as his arm wrapped around her shoulders.
    “I went to the graveyard.  I was doing an etching on…”  Chase looked down on her, his eyes looking through her.
    “Your grave?”  He gave a nod, and Lily fought the strong urge to run her tongue over his lips. 
    “The lightning struck, I woke up and you were there. I’ve been looking for you for awhile, but I couldn’t find anything, in any of the historical records.”
                  And I felt everything about you, and I can’t stop thinking about you.  
                  “Then I went home, and my eyes were grey. They were blue before. I saw the man in the khaki with the grey glow, just like you, and then…” She forced herself to take a deep breath.  “He tried to strangle me.  He didn’t even KNOW me.” 
    She unconsciously put her hand on her throat.  “And then you saved me .”  You saved me, and I want you to encompass me. Chase leaned back against the door.
                  “What I’m about to tell you will change your life, your perspective, everything.  Are you ready?”  Lily shyly reached up and let her fingers run down his cheek.  Chase closed his eyes and let out a deep moan. 
    “I can’t talk while you are doing that.” 
    “Sorry.”
                  “For thousands of years, there have been people that walk on the edge of life and death. We aren’t living, but we aren’t dead either.  We are the in-betweens, the grey-walkers, neither black or white, alive or deceased. We were once living and died…but were chosen to be the grey-walkers in the time in-between those two states. We have never been truly dead. We aren’t zombies or ghosts. Here, feel , my heart.”
    With a trembling hand, Lily put her hand against his chest.  She could feel his heart beating erratically, a foreign pattern that pulsed strongly underneath her fingertips. He was warm.
    “ We are just like humans, only…NOT. We walk with the living, but they can’t see us.  And we have our own rules, traditions and cultures.  We live outside the world WITHIN the world.”  He looked at her longingly.  “I don’t mean to scare you, but, I know you Lily.  I’ve been watching you, you know. Ever since you were a little girl, playing in my graveyard, making etchings on the graves.   I’ve seen you grow into the most amazing, gorgeous woman.  I never thought you would be able to see me, or hear the things that I’ve so longed to tell you. But now, by some great providence, you have been gifted with the grey-sight.” Lily stared at his soft, upturned lips.
    “The Grey-Sight?”
                  Chase continued. “People with the grey-sight are made maybe once every 10 years or so .  Only a person with the grey-sight can SEE grey-walkers like me.   No one really knows who or why some are chosen, but they are.  The conditions have to be exactly right for it to come into being. In your case, it was midnight, my graveyard, some lightning and…perhaps my longing for it to happen.  Who can say? But you are here, and you can see me, and never in the history has there been such a glorious moment as when your eyes rested upon my face.”  
    Lily could hear her heart pumping loudly.  She felt incredibly drawn and bonded to Chase, like she was always meant to be with him.  She wanted to know him, touch him . 
    No, not yet. There is information I must know.  
    “Okay.”
    “Okay?  I tell you that there are grey-walkers and that you have the grey-sight, and you say okay?”
                  Lily gave a shrug.  “It’s…new, but not alarming.”  Not when you come with it.
                    Chase shook his head.  “I should have known.  Lily Harrow, lover of the dead.” 
    “B ut you’re not