I kept my head down, my forehead resting on my elbow, my fingers lying flat against the keyboard of my laptop. “No, I mean it. Actual shit.” I raised my hand in a middle-fingered salute and opened one eye to face my accuser. Said accuser, Kendra Fletcher, peered at me with her wide brown eyes as ...
Harold pulled another shotgun from the closet in the front hall and handed it to me. “You know your way around one of these?” he asked, his sightless eyes still managing to look like he was staring straight through me. I took it from him, letting my fingers curl around the cold metal of the barre...
With each breath I took, pain shot through me. I could hear Nora’s voice. Scared. Crying. So far away. Chains around my arms and legs dragged me down. I’d never get to her. Finally, light stabbed through the thick film over my eyes and I clawed my way back. A hand on my shoulder replaced the chai...
The air grew thick between us. Hot. His eyes flashed, this time not from the threat of danger, but because I was close. I took another step, my chest rising and falling with measured breaths as I tried to shut out the maddening, summoning rhythm of his heart. One more step and I would put myself ...