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
his head. “I can sense one heartbeat from inside…
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.
of fresh blood from a wound that
‘Zade, something’s wrong.‘
clear they don’t really live in
stairs and Zade takes two at
hall, the smell of blood is far stronger up here.
the dead body that is
What on earth…
body and my stomach twists when
kill
in front of the door and I spot the bloody woman who is lying slumped against it, a gun in her hand, her
She’s wounded!
over, ready to assist her as Zade taps her face,
needs tending to. Goddess, she’s got several cuts!” I say, just as
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