Cleo Anderson would rather jump off a cliff than ever have anything to do with her ex-best friend, Aster Blackwood. Once inseparable, their relationship has now become almost nonexistent. While Cleo's life orbits around the beauty of figure skating, Aster's world is a cold, precise one centered around being a chess prodigy. Their contrasting worlds only pull them further apart. They both claim they hate each other. Or maybe Cleo does. But Aster? His feelings for her are teetering on the edge of madness. --- After a trap set by both their parents, Cleo finds herself once again in the house of her worst enemy. Instead of the confrontation she expects, Cleo is met with his death-and the weight of every word left unsaid. Granted a second chance by Death itself, Cleo must save the boy she once knew from a path of destruction, all while slowly dying herself. ---- Warning: might make you cry by 2am in the morning, read at your own risk Updates every Wednesday and Saturday.

Jessica Jennings is a paranormal writer with a strange specialty: she's an interviewer for the dead. But a typical assignment at an old mansion on Halloween turns out to be more than a routine ghostly encounter. Claude Elburke, a renowned piano prodigy, is not just any other interviewee. The catch? Claude has been dead for over a hundred years, tormented by the house's vengeful spirits, and an ancient, malevolent evil. Trapped by the house's sinister entity and forced into a wager where failure meant far more than the price of their souls, Jessica and Claude must unlock the mansion's dark history and their own haunted pasts before the clock strikes the final witching hour, where the last note could mean their freedom...or eternal damnation. #2 in haunting 2026/7/3 Cover by Aravis Brightspell ✧☽ ✧ ☼ ✧ ☽ ✧ If you are reading this story on any platform other than Wattpad, you are very likely to be at risk of a malware attack and reading a plagiarized copy of my work. If you wish to read this story in its original, safe form, please go to https://www.wattpad.com/user/Aravis-Brightspell.