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.
smell of fresh blood from a wound
‘Zade, something’s wrong.‘
quickly, closing each door after him. It’s clear they don’t really
two at a time, with
down, scanning the hall, the
I see the dead body that is on the ground
What on earth…
again as he steps over the body and my stomach twists when I see
Adriana kill them?
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Zade stop in front of the door and I spot the bloody woman who is lying slumped against it, a gun in her hand, her eyes shut and her body is covered
She’s wounded!
assist her as Zade taps her
got several cuts!” I say, just as
“Ada…”
Zade tries, but
at the door behind her, a door she was clearly guarding. She opens her hand,
it and stands up.
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