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 that is new.
‘Zade, something’s wrong.‘
they don’t really live in this house, there’s no furnishing
and Zade takes two at a time, with me
he slows down, scanning the hall, the
see the dead body that is on the ground in front of
What on earth…
the body and my stomach
Adriana kill them?
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front of the door and I spot the bloody woman who is lying slumped against it, a gun in her hand,
She’s wounded!
as Zade taps her face, trying to
to. Goddess, she’s got several cuts!” I say,
“Ada…”
tries, but she shakes
need to 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
it and stands up.
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