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?”
head. “I can sense one heartbeat from
wrist and guides me around the side of the house where he breaks one of the windows and climbs inside, lifting
Blood.
blood from a wound
‘Zade, something’s wrong.‘
really live in this house, there’s no furnishing in any of the rooms and there’s dust
reach the stairs and Zade takes two at
Zade calls as he slows down, scanning the hall, the smell of blood
body that is on
What on earth…
calls again as he steps over the body and my stomach
kill
spot the bloody woman who is lying slumped against it, a gun in her hand,
She’s wounded!
to assist her as Zade taps her face, trying to wake
got several cuts!”
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