Shadows Of A Forgotten Spring

Chapter 190

Chapter 190

Annie jolted awake at the sound of relentless pounding against her door. Her breath hitched in her throat; her body went rigid with fear.

No! no! no! no! Not yet! Her heart pounded loudly in her ears as she rummaged through the dimly lit room. Shadows were jumping around cracked walls and playing into her paranoia. She’d hidden so well, covering up her tracks so carefully, and yet, somehow they had outsmarted her.

Her fingers clamped over her mouth, stifling the panicked breaths threatening to betray her.

The knocking grew louder, more insistent. It was aggressive. Determined.

They were coming for her.

Heart hammering, she threw off the thin sheet and scrambled out of bed.

With trembling hands, she snatched her scattered clothes off the floor and yanked them on.

There was no time to waste. She had to get out–now.

Her mind raced with escape plans, but none seemed viable.

The door had been her only way out, and that was no longer an option.

And suddenly, it clicked.

The window!

She whirled toward it and flung aside the curtains.

The drop wasn’t too high–if she jumped and landed right, she could run, disappear again before they caught her.

of yesterday bread from

when she would eat good food again, but for now, survival

was about to hoist herself up, the door exploded off its

splintered into the air, crashing onto the floor

as

A man.

broad shoulders, and a presence that

in the dim flickering

dark as coal–unemotional and calculating–cut into hers and pinned her in place.

seeped off him, a palpable weight of

Lethal. And he had come

them. She tried to force

voice low and menacing, to the extent it sent a shiver down her spine, he spoke.

slow, deliberate pause. “Long time no

terrifying, voice she had ever

ran to catch up, his voice rising high with urgency. “Jake’s lost his bloody mind! He can’t be serious

was locked so tightly it could have cracked under the pressure, his fists opening and closing, as if he were

brain. He’d sacrificed his entire existence to back him up and get his trust–but now it only felt as if the floor just got taken

strength: believing in family. That had shattered, the wreckage slicing deeper than any physical wound.

cannot just let Jake continue to walk all over us. You see what happened today: even with Father still

some answers from the darkening clouds above. His

had once placed all their trust–was so far gone he’d rather see their

made

its urgency. “We need to do something.

any shouted fight, the simmering rage bubbling over. The ride back to their mother’s was somber and quiet; even Jeremy himself didn’t pipe up much to break that silence, keeping his lips

as they went inside, mother was already awaiting them at the door; her eyes–those red swollen desperate eyes–looked

She found none.

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