Almost Gone by Blake Pierce

Author:Blake Pierce [Pierce, Blake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-01-14T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINETEEN

Cassie’s hand shook as she turned the key in the bedroom door. She tried to do it quietly, but it made an audible click, and then jammed. She could hear footsteps swiftly walking away.

Cassie wrestled with the lock and finally it turned. She flung the door open and stared down the corridor.

There was nobody in sight.

Who had been outside her room? Pierre? Margot?

Righteous anger led her feet of their own accord down the corridor to Pierre’s bedroom. As soon as she rounded the corner, she could hear raised voices and realized they were arguing behind the closed bedroom door. So it couldn’t have been either of them. It sounded like a heated and acrimonious debate and she wondered if Margot, too, had smelled the perfume on Pierre’s skin, or whether they were still fighting over the way she’d behaved to Cassie earlier.

Cassie was curious to know, but the words weren’t clearly audible from the other side of the door. She felt nervous about going near that bedroom again. She’d been there twice and both times it had ended badly. She didn’t want to risk being discovered a third time—although in the back of her mind, she fantasized about busting open the door and walking in on their argument and demanding that they hear her side.

At least she would have had her say before she left.

As she stood undecided in the corridor, the voices stopped abruptly, and Cassie hurried back to her room.

She turned out her light and, to calm herself, took another of the tablets from the blister pack and swallowed it without any water at all. If drowsiness was a side effect, she was happy to take double the recommended dose. It was the only way she would be able to get to sleep after the trauma of the day.

As she was on the brink of sleep, she heard a scream from down the corridor that jolted her wide awake again.

Cassie sat up and turned on her bedside light, listening anxiously, wondering what was happening, and if she had remembered to lock her door when she’d returned to her room. When she heard the scream a second time, she recognized Ella’s voice. The young girl must be having another nightmare, and regardless of Pierre’s order to stay in her room, Cassie needed to go and comfort her.

She rummaged in her suitcase for her dressing gown, in case she ended up spending some time with Ella, and then hurried to her bedroom.

“Ella, it’s me. You’re OK, don’t worry. I’m here.”

Quickly Cassie switched on the light and closed the door in case Ella’s cries alerted Margot. The last thing she needed was another late night confrontation with the deranged blonde.

“Were you having a bad dream?”

Ella was still in the throes of her nightmare. Her small fists battered Cassie and she cried out in her sleep.

“Stop it! Stop hurting me!”

Concerned about what might have caused this nightmare, Cassie gently prodded her awake.

“Everything’s all right,” she soothed her. “Look, here’s your teddy.

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