Chapter 236

It wasn’t unusual for Lisa to hear her character’s voice in her head, it was actually pretty normal for her, but she had never had an actual physical manifestation of a character before, not like Mason. He fascinated her and the character Hyde seemed like his alter-ego. Whenever she spent any time with Mason, she always came away inspired and although it was slower to happen this time, tonight had been no different. As she sat in front of her computer, words poured forth, her mind working almost too fast for her fingers to keep up. She added to her profile of Mason and then went on to write scene after scene with Mason/Hyde whispering in her ear. Hours later, she emerged from the fugue, spent. Her brain and body felt empty like she had poured out everything within her on the pages of her novel. Limp and exhausted, she crawled back into bed, her eyes falling closed, her mind wonderfully blank, and slipped into the dark abyss of dreamless sleep. He couldn’t breathe. The hand on the back