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
‘Zade, something’s wrong.‘
don’t really live in this house, there’s no furnishing in any of the rooms and there’s dust layering
the stairs and Zade takes two at
down, scanning the hall, the smell
is on the ground in
What on earth…
he steps over the body and my stomach twists when I see three more men dead.
kill them?
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is lying slumped against it, a gun in her hand, her eyes shut and her body is covered with stab
She’s wounded!
Zade taps her face, trying to wake
needs tending to. Goddess, she’s got several cuts!” I say, just as
“Ada…”
wounded-” Zade tries, but she shakes her head.
save Ada,” she whispers, her gaze now turning to me before she glances at the door behind her, a door she was clearly guarding. She opens her hand, revealing a bloody key.
it and
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