5.25 A High Heels Haunting by Gemma Halliday

Author:Gemma Halliday
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Gemma Halliday
Published: 2010-10-25T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

It was a breezy night. The wind whipping at my bare skin. I looked down. I was clad only in an oversized T-shirt with a big red Stanford S on it, my legs exposed beneath. And the wind was picking up, rushing over me so that little goosebumps appeared on my arms. Why was I outside, dressed like this?

The noise. That’s right, I’d heard a noise outside. I was afraid it was the dog. Blake’s dog. Sometimes he got out at night.

I called his name softly. “Here, boy. Here, Rufus.”

Only the wind answered, gusting through the trees, making little ripples on the surface of the pool. I tiptoed closer to the edge of the water, squinting through the darkness at the thick bushes that flanked the patio. Were they moving?

“Rufus?”

Or was it just the wind? I couldn’t tell. It was so dark, the moon a tiny sliver in the sky, giving off no more light than a flickering candle. I should have brought a flashlight with me. Where did Blake keep his flashlight?

I was about to turn around and go back into the house to get one.

But I was too late. A pair of hands were on my shoulders. Strong and rough, shoving me forward. So unexpected, I lost my balance immediately, pitching forward, arms out to break my fall as I hit the water.

The cold sent a shock through me and I involuntarily took a breath. Only water came rushing into my mouth instead of air. I tried to cough it out, to propel myself upward. But it was no use. Those hands were still holding me. Pushing me down. Instead, I tried to turn around. I needed to see him. Who was doing this to me? Why? What had I done to them? I thrashed to the left and right, unable to see anything in the dark, the water clouding my eyes, my lungs stinging, burning, begging for just one little sip of air.

But he wouldn’t let me have it.

I felt my eyes closing, my limbs growing heavy, the fight slipping out of me. I focused everything I had left into one more movement and flipped my head around to see him watching me. Watching the life slip out of me as his hands held me under the water. I couldn’t believe it.

It was him.

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