Betrayal by Amber Garr

Author:Amber Garr
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2012-02-19T08:00:00+00:00

Eleven

Someone was on top of me and they were crushing my stomach. I clawed frantically at the hand covering my mouth and tried to force my lungs to save what little air was left inside. My room was too dark to make out specific features, but I knew that it was a man attacking me now. And with that knowledge, I knew where I needed to put my knee.

I kicked up as hard as I could, but the man jumped to the side, missing the worst of the impact. The hand fell from my mouth and just before I screamed, I heard his voice.

“Eviana, stop! It’s me!”

“Graham?” I tried to sit up. “What are you doing in my room?” Something crashed through a window downstairs.

“We’re being attacked. I need to get you out of here. Now!”

“Attacked?” My sleepy brain was not fully comprehending what the adrenaline in my body was telling me. Something loud and big slammed against my bedroom door and I heard a muffled cry. “Was that a protector?”

“I think so. Come on, we’ll go over the balcony.” Graham yanked me out of the bed so hard that my knees would surely be bruised in the morning. If I was alive in the morning. Another window broke somewhere on the second floor and the unmistakable cry of a human in pain sliced through my ears. Yet when Graham opened the sliding glass doors to the balcony in my room, we heard another noise that sent chills through my bones.

“What is that?” I breathed. The sound of the rolling ocean was muted by the soulful cries of hounds. There must have been dozens of them and they were everywhere. A few dark shadows darted through the back yard and from what I could see, these weren’t normal dogs.

He pushed me out into the night. “Come on. We’re going to have to jump.”

“But we’re on the second floor.” There was another thump against my bedroom door followed by the distinctive sound of an animal snarling.

“We have to get to the water. You’ll heal if you break something.” Graham leaned out over the edge of the balcony and then quickly pulled back when he spotted one of the dogs.

“What are they?” I asked again.

“Ratchets.” I had no idea what a ratchet was but now wasn’t the time to ask. Graham pulled me to the ledge and pointed below us. “We need to aim for the bushes.”

We lifted one leg at a time to climb over the railing so that our backs were against the edge and there was nothing in front of us.

“And don’t make any sound,” Graham continued. “They seem to be focused on the front of the house and we don’t want to alert them to our location.”

I nodded and let him grab my hand. He mouthed one-two-three and then we jumped. The fall probably only lasted a few seconds but it felt much longer. There was no graceful or safe way to land in bushes and that was quite evident when I crashed through them.

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