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chapter 1 a beautiful wife I cannot remember how when or where I met Lea it was a long time ago and my memory is not good but I think I met her first in a large old city near the rine in Germany she told me that she came from an ancient family but I never knew the family name of the woman who was my friend my partner in my studies and finally my wife why did I never discover her family name perhaps because she did not want me to find out but I cannot remember I

remember one thing very well Lea was tall and slim later at the end she became very thin how can I describe her quiet aristocratic movements or the strange softness of her footsteps if she came into my office I only knew she was there when I heard her voice or when she put her white hand on my shoulder she had a beautiful face but it was not a classical kind of beauty there was something strange about about it I have often tried to understand it was it her pure white skin or her thick black hair I

looked at her long delicate nose many times it was perfect I looked at her sweet mouth how soft and red it was and when she smiled her teeth were white then I looked into her eyes they were much bigger than normal eyes sometimes when she was excited they looked like a deer's eyes they were black with long black eyelashes and black eyebrows but as I looked into them I realized that they had a strange expression I thought about it for many hours sometimes all night what was the expression in those eyes I wanted to know

many times I thought I almost had the answer but then it was gone Lea was very determined she was always calm and quiet but her determination showed in her eyes it Shone like a terrible energy and sometimes it frightened me Lea was very clever she was excellent at Latin and Greek and she knew many other languages perfectly she never made a mistake she was also a student of Science and Mathematics when we were first married I often asked her for help with my studies and we worked together but after she died I was alone without

her I was like a child in the dark when she first became ill she did not come to help me as often as before she lost weight and her skin became pale and transparent when I saw that she was dying I felt desperate Lea resisted death with all her energy to live she was determined I watched in agony as she fought for life I knew she loved me but I only understood how much she loved me now that she was dying she held my hands and said that she was devoted to me I cannot talk

about it now but let me say that her love for me was part of her determination to live on the night she died she suddenly got out of bed and cried oh God must I die must I lose my fight with death no I can't die like this but my dear Lea died I was so sad I could not stay in The Old City by the rine for a few months I traveled around then I bought an old ABY in an isolated part of England this dark sad Place expressed my feelings of loneliness but I

decorated it with beautifully colored curtains carpets and ornaments I said to myself perhaps the bright colors will make me feel happier Unfortunately they did not I began to drink too much but I do not want to speak about that time of my life I will only say that one day I married lady Rowena trevanian of train my new wife had blonde hair and blue eyes she was very different from my first wife but how could I ever forget Lea I took lady Rowena back to a room high up in the tower of the Abbey where

we lived for the first month of our marriage the room was very large with an enormous window made of glass from Venice the ceiling was high like a church and in the center there was a big gold chandelier there were sofas from the East and an Indian bed on the walls were long tapestries like carpets with designs made of gold the tapestries moved every time the wind blew my wife was afraid of me because I was often sad and depressed she did not love me much and stayed away from me but I preferred this I

always thought about Lea my beautiful Lea dead in the Tomb sometimes in my dreams I called to her in the night I imagined that perhaps my love for her could bring her back to me at the beginning of the second month lady Rowena became ill she did not sleep very well and told me she could hear sounds and movements in the tower you have a fever I said you're imagining things she got better but then she went back to bed with a second illness worse than the first the doctors could not understand it again Rowena

began to hear little sounds and movements in the bedroom and they frightened her one night at the end of September she woke up Suddenly I was sitting on a sofa by her bed she whispered to me that she could hear sounds and see movements and there was a frightened expression on her thin face but I saw and heard nothing it's the wind I explained you can see the tapestry moving in the wind but her face was white with fear and she nearly fainted I remembered that there was some wine on the table on the other

side of the room as I walked under the light of the chandelier a strange thing happened I felt something invisible past me and on the carpet I saw a shadow almost almost the shadow of a shadow I decided to say nothing to Rowena I poured out a glass of wine and gave it to her then I sat on the sofa and watched her after some moments I heard very quiet footsteps on the carpet coming towards the bed a second later as Rowena was about to drink the wine I saw or perhaps I dreamed that I

saw three or four large drops of a bright red liquid fall into the glass Rowena did not see it she drank the wine and I said nothing because I thought it was only my imagination after this Rowena's health got much worse and on the third night she died her servants prepared her for the tomb then covered her with a sheet the next night I sat alone with her body in the bedroom strange forms and shadows moved around me I looked nervously into the dark Corners at the moving tapestries and I felt felt frightened then I

looked at the carpet under the chandelier there was no Shadow there and I felt better when I looked at Rowena on the bed sad memories of Lea the only woman I ever loved came back to me it was perhaps around midnight when I heard a sound it was quiet but clear and it woke me from my dreams I thought it came from the bed I listened in Terror but I did not hear it again I looked carefully at Rowena for any sign of life she was not moving but I continued to look at her minutes

pass then I noticed a little color in Rowena's face my heart stopped in horror I could not move when I understood that Rowena was not dead I tried to revive her but soon the color disappeared from her cheeks her face looked like marble again and her lips were thin with the horrible expression of death when her body was cold and rigid I fell onto the sofa and dreamed about Lea an hour later I heard the same sound as before I listened yes there it was again a sigh from the bed I ran over and saw

clearly that her lips were trembling then they opened showing her bright teeth I thought I was going mad there was a pink color on her cheeks and neck her body was getting warm again and her heart was beating a little lady Rowena was alive I did everything I could to revive her then suddenly her color dis disappeared her heart stopped and her body became cold and rigid I sat down and began to think about Lea again then again for the third time there was a sound from the bed but why must I describe the horrors

of that night again I tried to revive Rowena and then a time each time she seemed to fight with an invisible force and each time her body changed I cannot say how but she looked different it was nearly Dawn I when she moved again I was sitting on the sofa exhausted but Rowena's body moved with more energy than before her color returned Signs of Life changed her face her eyes were closed but she looked alive then she suddenly got out of bed and walked slowly to the center of the room like she was walking in

her sleep I did not tremble I did not move I was as cold and still as Stone Paralyzed by what I saw as I looked at her my head filled with wild thoughts was Rowena really alive could I really see her blonde hair and blue eyes why wasn't I certain I could not see her mouth very well but her cheeks were like pink roses weren't they Rowena's cheeks but wasn't she tall smaller than before I was filled with a kind of Madness I ran to her but she moved away then I saw her long hair

moving in the wind it was blacker than the black of midnight and now slowly her eyes opened I shouted like a madman these are the black eyes of my lost love the eyes of Lea English 5day Story the voice over in this video is given by English 5 days copying or re-uploading is totally forbidden further action will be taken as soon as we notice without any kind of pre-notice