Chapter 0414
VALERIE.
We ring the doorbell of the small house that sits back from the rest of the block. The overgrown brambles cover the wall that surrounds the property, making it far more secluded than the neighbours, giving more privacy, or making it more dangerous…
I’m holding my medical kit, feeling on edge, Zade’s unease bleeding into me and I’m on high alert.
Zade is on edge too, his body shielding mine completely from behind but also ready for anything.
No answer…
He rings the bell again.
“Why isn’t she opening?” I whisper.
He shakes his head. “I can sense one heartbeat from inside… maybe two.”
Frowning, he takes my wrist and guides me around the side of the house where he breaks one of the windows and climbs inside, lifting me inside.
Blood.
hit with the smell of fresh blood from a wound that is new.
‘Zade, something’s wrong.‘
really live in this house, there’s no furnishing in any of the rooms and there’s dust
stairs and Zade takes two at a
he slows down, scanning the hall, the smell of blood is far
see the dead body that is on
What on earth…
over the body and my stomach twists when I see
kill
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and I spot the bloody woman who is lying slumped against it, a gun in her hand, her eyes shut
She’s wounded!
her as Zade taps her face, trying to
she’s got several cuts!” I say,
“Ada…”
but she shakes her
whispers, her gaze now turning to me before she glances at the door behind
it and stands
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