Playing with Ghosts

Playing With Ghosts Consumed: Book One LouLou Fox Copyright Copyright © 2023 by LouLou Fox All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except as permitted by U.K copyright law. For permission requests, contact the author. The story, all names, characters, and incidents portrayed in this production are fictitious. No identification with actual persons (living or deceased), places, buildings, and products is intended or should be inferred. Book Cover by Kellie CoverDesigns Edited by Bailey Grayson of Crowe Abbey Press First edition 2023 Contents Quote Note From The Author Content and Trigger Warning 1. Prologue 2. Chapter One 3. Chapter Two 4. Chapter Three 5. Chapter Four 6. Chapter Five 7. Chapter Six 8. Chapter Seven 9. Chapter Eight 10. Chapter Nine 11. Chapter Ten 12. Chapter Eleven 13. Chapter Twelve 14. Chapter Thirteen 15. Chapter Fourteen 16. Chapter Fifteen 17. Chapter Sixteen 18. Chapter Seventeen 19. Chapter Eighteen 20. Chapter Nineteen 21. Chapter Twenty 22. Chapter Twenty-One 23. Chapter Twenty-Two 24. Chapter Twenty-Three 25. Chapter Twenty-Four 26. Chapter Twenty-Five 27. Chapter Twenty-Six 28. Chapter Twenty-Seven Playlist Follow Me Also By LouLou Fox Quote “You ready to play with Ghosts, baby girl?” Lucas Bianchi Note From The Author So I just want to say a big thank you to all you guys for taking a chance to read the work of an unknown author. I really appreciate your leap of faith and hope that you love the story and the characters as much as I do. I need to say a massive thank you to my editor Bailey Grayson for all your help, patience, and support. I honestly could not have gotten Playing With Ghosts finished without you! Also my very first little fox cubs, you guys know who you are, thank you for your continued support and faith in me, and for keeping me sane while writing this. And last, but by no means least, I want to say a huge thank you to my family. I love you guys and I am so very grateful for your patience with me while writing this. So with that being said, I won’t keep you guys any longer, go ahead and turn the page and delve into the dark and twisted world of Clearhollow and its residents. LouLou Fox xxx p.s. I should mention that I am a British author and so the book has been written in British English. Content and Trigger Warning PLAYING WITH GHOSTS is a DARK MAFIA ROMANCE and as such is aimed at a mature audience. This is an emotionally intense story that contains themes, situations, and topics that some readers may find uncomfortable, offensive, or triggering. The following are contained within these pages, therefore reader discretion is advised. Assault Kidnap Murder Stalking Torture Drug Use Profanity Dub Con Sexual Assault Graphic Sex Scenes Attempted Sexual Assault Playing With Ghosts is the first book in the Consumed series and does end on a cliff hanger. Prologue Do you believe in fated souls? That somewhere, out in this big wide world, there is one single person that is destined for you? One person, out of billions, that was hand crafted and moulded to be your missing piece, your one true love, your soul mate. That somewhere out there, is the thing that you have been unknowingly searching for as you bounce from one person to the next, clocking up an impressive list of failed relationships and one-night stands. That it’s irrelevant how much effort you put into make those relationships work, because they are destined to fail, that it isn’t the person fate has paired you with, that it’s just the person fate has given you to keep you busy until your path finally crosses that of your soul mate. Yeah, personally, I think it’s all a load of crap. Soulmates, one true love, and all that nonsense, is just what the romantics of this fine earth tell themselves to feel better about another failed attempt at the dating game, while pouring copious amounts of alcohol down their necks. Now, I’m not cynical or jaded when it comes to love, I just think the whole notion of one true love and soul mates and the rest of it, is simply something that was concocted by the television industry, the book industry, hallmark cards, and all of the other major industries that benefit from such a thing as true love. I mean, if everyone in the world was of my way of thinking, then there would be no timeless fairy tales told both on paper and on screen for mothers and grandmothers to tell little girls. There would be no influx of roses and chocolates being bought in the month of February, hell, maybe even the diamond industry would plummet from lack of engagement rings being purchased by nervous men hoping their girl says ‘yes’. Okay, so I’ll admit I do sound a little cynical and jaded regarding the matter. But the honest truth of it all is, I just don’t believe in it. Sure, I believe in love. Of course, love is real. I just don’t believe that there is only one person in this whole planet that is meant for another and no one else. It’s ridiculous and I personally will not allow such a childish and over romanticised notion to have control over my emotions, or be the explanation for such intense, confusing, and well, yeah, unexplainable emotions and feelings. God, listen to me. I sound like a crazy person ranting about true love not being real, but I have a valid reason for my out of the blue ranting, truly I do, and it has everything to do with this soul mate bullshit everyone loves to harp on about. You see it is said that everyone has a story of how they met their