Chapter 21
The gun is heavy in my hand and it shakes slightly but I’m not loosening my grip. Thomas will be back any
moment and I know I need to take him by surprise. I can’t fight in my condition and I stumble towards the stairs, quickly getting under them before he comes back. Naturally I hear the door creak back open seconds later and his footsteps as he comes in. It only takes him less than a minute to realize I’m gone.
“Winter” he yells and I stay silent, breathing heavily in the darkness, trying not to give my location away. There’s plenty of hiding spots in the basement and I hope he thinks I’m hiding somewhere, anywhere else.
“This is stupid” he says annoyed “you can barely walk on that leg. You really think you have the guts to shoot me” he scoffs and begins to walk down, looking tentatively around him, looking for me.
I think to myself, just a little further down. He stops just above me and I strike, darting
shoving him. To my satisfaction he loses his balance and
to get to the stairs and out of here. The gun shakes in
the banister tightly as I swing my painful one over his body
still in a baby doll with no underwear but shrug it off. Who cared? Right now I needed to
I limp towards the front door, the gun still in my hand, hoping that he’s still not up, still in too much
eyes are crazed as he turns me over, his face stony
this? You only have yourself to blame” he adds and I back up a
tighter. “I’m sorry” I pant but he doesn’t stop, a
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