Alice Parker & the Curse of Fate by Nicola Palmer

Author:Nicola Palmer [Nicola Palmer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kallisto
Published: 2014-03-26T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Captives in the Cold

Alice gripped her seat until her knuckles were white as the truck bounced over the frozen furrows in the fields.

‘What are you doing?’ she yelled. ‘What happens if we catch them?’

‘I don’t know. But we can’t let them get away with this, can we? They’ve destroyed Ingrid’s home, for goodness sake!’

‘Hmm. And our accommodation.’

‘That’s not important. We couldn’t have stayed tonight, even if Isabella hadn’t destroyed it. She would have done something else, knowing we were there.’

‘But HOW did she know?’

‘I intend to find out. Ha, there she is! Like a startled rabbit in the headlights!’ Thomas revved the engine and roared towards Isabella and her familiar companion.

‘Except I’d try to avoid a rabbit,’ muttered Alice.

‘Ooh, this is fun!’ howled Thomas, delighting in Isabella’s fear as she stumbled through the field in her designer boots, running away from their vehicle.

‘You won’t say that when she melts this car.’

‘She won’t. She can’t stop long enough to focus because I’ll mow her down.’

‘You wouldn’t really do that.’

‘Wouldn’t I?’

Alice cast a nervous glance at Thomas at the precise moment the moon appeared from behind a cloud. Judging by the wild, furious glint in his eyes, he might. It seemed he’d been pushed over the edge this time.

Isabella and her partner in crime were heading towards a public footpath which led to the main road. If they reached it, Thomas couldn’t follow them in the vehicle, since it cut through an area of woodland on Ingrid’s land. Alice looked around in desperation. A huge elm caught her eye, filtering the moonlight through its bare branches.

‘Bring that elm down!’ she blurted out. ‘It’ll block their path. But don’t crush them!’

‘As if I care.’

‘I care. I don’t want to visit you in prison.’

‘You won’t. It’s the perfect murder!’

‘Get a grip!’ yelled Alice. ‘Can you hear yourself?’

‘Loud and clear!’ Thomas sped towards the elm, focussing on the base of it as they approached.

Alice could hear the tree creaking over the sound of the engine as Thomas attempted to topple it with the power of his mind.

‘CAREFUL!’ she screamed. ‘You could kill us too!’

The fugitives stopped dead, perturbed by the groans emanating from the mighty tree nearby. Pleased with his work, Thomas spun the truck around to drive back to the farmhouse. But instead of tearing away the truck stopped abruptly. He glared at the ignition, pleading with the vehicle to start, but there wasn’t even a splutter. The dashboard remained in darkness.

‘I bet he’s done this!’ squealed Alice. ‘That horrible man can control anything electrical!’

‘Aaaaargh!’ growled Thomas, thumping the steering wheel.

The creaking became louder as the elm’s roots began to loosen in the ground.

‘Stop it! Stop it falling!’ yelled Alice, leaping out of the truck and running away as fast as she could in the darkness.

‘Too late!’

Thomas was running after her – the tree was on the move. Just seconds later they were both knocked off their feet by the vibration of the poor old elm hitting the ground. Alice picked herself up and grabbed the torch from Thomas’s hand.

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