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.
fresh blood from a wound
‘Zade, something’s wrong.‘
all the rooms quickly, closing each door after him. It’s clear they don’t really
and Zade takes two at a time, with me hot on
the hall, the smell of blood
dead body that is on
What on earth…
he calls again as he steps over the body and my stomach twists when I see three more
kill them?
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and I spot the bloody woman who is lying slumped
She’s wounded!
Zade taps her face, trying to
she’s got several cuts!” I say, just as her
“Ada…”
tries, but she shakes her
glances at the door behind her,
and
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