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
‘Zade, something’s wrong.‘
him. It’s clear they 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 a
down, scanning the hall, the
the dead body that is on the
What on earth…
body and my stomach twists when I see three more men dead.
kill
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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
She’s wounded!
her as Zade taps her face, trying to wake
Goddess, she’s got several cuts!” I say, just as her eyes flutter open.
“Ada…”
tries, but she
whispers, her gaze now turning to me before she glances at the door behind her,
it and
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