Breaker's Reef (Cape Refuge Series) by Terri Blackstock

Author:Terri Blackstock [Blackstock, Terri]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2009-05-26T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 32

Don’t let me die.

Amelia Roarke’s silent prayer rose up into the black night, but she feared it hit the ceiling sixteen feet above her, no more able to escape than she was. She longed for morning, when the first rays of light would ease the darkness and make her prison less of a terror.

She was weak … so weak she couldn’t fight him off any longer when he came for her. She hadn’t eaten in … how long? Two days? Three? She’d lost track. She’d had nothing to drink in all that time, either. Thank God for the brief rain yesterday, when the rain drizzled through the trap door overhead. She lay on her back, mouth open, desperate for hydration.

She was going to die, right here in this pit. She would grow so weak that she’d fall asleep and never wake up. If he didn’t kill her first. Would he shovel dirt on top of her? Would this be her grave?

Why had she and Jamie eavesdropped on that conversation outside their window? Why had they answered the door that night? She’d never had a gun pointed at her before, never had two men threatening to kill her if she didn’t walk with them to their car.

She should have taken her chances and screamed. Made a run for it.

Then Jamie would still be alive, and Amelia would be able to go home, not to some illusive birth mother, but to the parents who loved her, the parents who were probably insane with worry.

Why had she gone off looking for some woman who’d played such a little part in her life? She knew it had hurt her parents when she’d started looking. They feared losing her, even though she promised them that they wouldn’t, that she was still their daughter and always would be.

Her disappearance must have broken their hearts. They had to be worried for her safety, physical and emotional.

And they should be.

They were probably searching for her, tracking her steps. She wondered if they realized she’d come to Cape Refuge. Maybe there had been clues left, witnesses who saw them getting in the car that night. But she doubted any of those people who loitered in the parking lot and lurked in the doorways of the Flagstaff Motel would tell the police anything. Even if they did, would they be able to trace her to this remote farmhouse so far out of town?

No one would ever find her, in this pit someone had built into the ground, a forest basement too deep to be a tornado shelter, too damp to be a wine cellar. Had there been others held here? Were their bones under the dirt beneath her?

She closed her eyes, trying not to see the faces of those two men as they’d bound her and Jamie’s hands and feet with duct tape, and sealed up their mouths. One of them smelled of whiskey, sweat, and smoke. His greasy hair hung into his wild eyes, and she saw the

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