The History Thief: Ten Days Lost (The Sterling Novels) - Plot & Excerpts
She saw the shadows cast by the person’s feet through the bottom of the door’s frame, as they perforated the only open space of her cell.She pressed her back harder into the stone wall, knowing full well that doing so amounted to nothing. It was merely a protective instinct. There was no escape, no avoiding what—who—was coming. She had grown accustomed to being afraid, but this time it was worse. Sonia heard the high-pitched grating of a key being slipped into the door’s lock.Her heart palpitated unevenly as the tumblers of the lock turned.He was coming into her prison. She couldn’t breathe and gulped with near futility for air.Frantically, she snapped her head to the left and then to the right; her eyes darted wildly. She grasped childishly at the bulbous, cold walls. If she were looking in from the outside, the scene would have either amused or terrified her: there was nowhere that she could possibly go and likewise nothing that she could fathom to do.But yet she erratically clawed at nothing and searched for something.Her fear took over; it consumed her as the door cracked slowly open.She gasped meekly, “No, no!”
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