After the Dark by Cynthia Eden

Author:Cynthia Eden
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HQN Books
Published: 2017-07-08T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

SAMANTHA OPENED HER EYES, giving a quick gasp. Wakefulness came in a sudden, sharp rush. She could have sworn that she’d heard...something. She rolled over on the mattress, reaching for Blake, but the bed was empty.

He was gone. Maybe in his room? She climbed from the bed, pulling the sheet with her and then wrapping it around her body, toga-style. She tiptoed toward his room, but when she reached for the connecting door, she found it locked. Samantha pressed her ear to the door and heard nothing.

She lifted her hand and rapped on the door. “Blake?”

Again, nothing.

Her eyes narrowed as she turned away from the door. He’d just slipped away without a word? If he’d gotten new evidence on the case, she figured he would have woken her. He should have woken her.

Then she stilled. Something had woken her. Samantha glanced around her room, but nothing was out of place. Moving quickly now, she donned her clothes, and she took her father’s gun out of her small bag.

She put on her holster and she pulled a jacket down to cover the weapon. She opened the door that led to the hallway. Samantha looked to the left and to the right.

No one was out there. But...

Something woke me. She pulled her door shut behind her and paced down the hallway. She’d taken five steps when she heard...

A gurgle.

And...a thud.

Her steps quickened. She saw that a door on the left was ajar. The gold plate next to that room called it the “Magnolia Room.” Each guest room in the bed-and-breakfast had its own name. She’d been staying in the “Azalea Room.” Samantha crossed the hall and put her hand on the Magnolia Room door. “Is everything okay in there?”

Another gurgle. No, that did not sound as if things were okay.

She pushed open the door with her left hand even as her right instinctively went for her gun. She stepped inside—

Darkness.

The room was pitch-black. The only light came from behind Samantha as it spilled in from the hallway. Fumbling, her hand went to the light switch. The light flashed on and—

Blood. Blood all over the white bedsheets. Blood on the bed’s headboard. Blood on the wall near the bed and—

The victim’s shoulders jerked. “Get help in here!’ Samantha yelled, hoping someone in another room would hear her. “Get help!” She raced across the room. All she could see of the victim was her bare back and the blond tangle of her hair. She scrambled around the bed and—

Janice?

The reporter’s throat was sliced open. Blood poured all around her, and Janice’s eyes were wide, desperate, terrified. Her lips were opening and closing as she struggled to speak, but the only sound that escaped her was that terrible gurgle. Samantha lunged across the bed, and she put her hands over that deep wound. Janice’s blood immediately soaked her fingers. It just kept pumping. Far too much.

I’m losing her. She is dying right now!

It was a brutal attack, one that had gone so deep.

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