A Solar Winter (Into the Dark Post-Apocalyptic EMP Thriller Book 4) by Ryan Casey

Author:Ryan Casey [Casey, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Higher Bank Books
Published: 2018-07-26T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Five

When Alison opened her eyes, she wasn’t sure whether everything that’d just happened was reality or a dream.

When she felt the pain crippling the right side of her head, where the woman had whacked her as soon as she’d got her back here, she knew she couldn’t have just imagined it after all.

She was in a kitchen somewhere, lying on a table. It was dark outside, and it was mostly dark in here but for a candle flickering somewhere to her left. She remembered how things had gone down in the woods. The argument with Holly. The way Holly had looked ready to kill her.

Hiding in the woods.

Then, out of nowhere, a woman confronting her, forcing her back to the farmhouse where she was from.

After that, everything got a little blurry, a little muddled. She remembered stepping in here. She remembered the sudden thud to the back of her skull as she fell to the floor. She’d drifted in and out of consciousness a few times as she’d tried to apply pressure to the wound.

But at one point when she’d woken up, she’d seen a woman above her.

She remembered the feeling of recognition she’d felt about that woman, but she was so disoriented that she couldn’t initially figure out who this woman even was.

But now she was lying on this table… she thought she knew exactly who it was.

Sofia.

The mother of the boy Holly had killed.

Alison went to lift her right hand.

But it was stuck.

Dread crept up inside. She looked around, saw that it was taped down thickly.

She went to move the other arm.

That was stuck too.

Then she tried her legs.

Both stuck.

The dread intensified inside her, then. Because she knew what this was now. Sofia had brought her back here to punish her.

For what reason?

Alison could only see one.

To make her pay for what she thought she’d done to her son.

She was about to tug some more at the tape around her wrists when she heard footsteps behind her.

A door creaked shut. The footsteps shuffled into the room, kept on coming until they stopped right behind Alison’s head, just out of sight.

“Whatever you think I did,” Alison said, voice a little shaky. “I wasn’t involved in that. It… it wasn’t something I wanted. It was something I tried to st—”

A smack. A smack right across her face. She felt her cheek stinging as long nails scratched against her skin.

She felt the venom in that slap. The pain in that slap.

And she knew that whether she’d endorsed what Holly did or not… she just had to take it.

“He was so good, you know?”

Sofia’s voice was weak. It was haunting. It sounded like the voice of someone who had lost everything.

And the voices of those who didn’t have anything left to lose were always the scariest of all.

Because there was nothing stopping them doing something that perhaps they wouldn’t have done if they had something still left to love.

Alison tried to tilt her head back, tried to look Sofia in her eyes.

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