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.
yesterday bread from the bedside table and jammed them
had no idea when she would eat good food again,
she was about to hoist herself up, the door
onto the floor in jagged pieces.
in her throat as
A man.
shoulders, and a presence that filled the room.
features shone in the dim
dark as coal–unemotional and calculating–cut into
off him, a palpable weight
Lethal. And he had come
lips trembled, nothing came from them. She tried to force words out, and still, only managed a weak
low and menacing, to the extent it sent a shiver down her spine,
A slow, deliberate pause. “Long time
most terrifying, voice she had ever
catch up, his voice rising high with urgency. “Jake’s lost his bloody mind!
His jaw was locked so tightly it could have cracked under the pressure, his fists opening and closing, as if he were physically restraining himself
back him up and get his trust–but now it
was the one thing that could have been his strength: believing in family. That had shattered,
breath, James spoke between deep breaths. “We cannot just let Jake continue to walk all over us. You see what happened today: even with Father still alive, he has completely taken over. And mark my words, John, he will do everything in his power to make sure Father never
to glean some answers from the darkening clouds above. His hands quivered at his
so that Jake–their very brother growing up, the brother in whom they had once placed all their trust–was
very thought made John’s stomach
neither did it lose its urgency. “We need to do something. Now. Before it’s too
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
went inside, mother was already awaiting them at the door; her eyes–those red swollen desperate eyes–looked well in their faces for some amount of good news.
She found none.
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