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.
with the smell of fresh blood from
‘Zade, something’s wrong.‘
don’t really live in this house, there’s no furnishing in any of
takes two at a time, with me
as he slows down, scanning the hall, the smell
when I see the dead body that is on the ground
What on earth…
calls again as he steps over the body and my stomach twists when I
Adriana kill them?
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the bloody woman who is lying slumped against it, a gun
She’s wounded!
to assist her as Zade
tending to. Goddess, she’s got several cuts!” I
“Ada…”
Zade tries, but
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
takes it and
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