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.
she opening?” I whisper.
shakes his head. “I can sense one
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.
the smell of fresh blood from
‘Zade, something’s wrong.‘
they don’t really live in this house, there’s no furnishing in any of the rooms and
reach the stairs and Zade takes two at a time,
the hall, the smell of blood is far stronger up here.
body that is on the ground in front of
What on earth…
as he steps over the body and my stomach twists when
kill
woman who is lying slumped against it, a gun in her hand, her eyes shut and her
She’s wounded!
as Zade taps her face, trying to
got several cuts!” I say, just
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