Capturing the Viscount by Win Hollows

Author:Win Hollows [Hollows, Win]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-02-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Laura’s mind ceased to function during the split second she was falling. When she had been dangling from the basket, her brain had run through as many gruesome scenarios as possible in that short time. She knew there were unforgiving trees waiting below her that she couldn’t see. Her landing on the ground, head bashing in to a rock. Falling onto a branch that broke her back. Landing safely and then being smothered by the raging fire of the air balloon as it landed on top of her. Seeing Remington die the same way…

But in that brief moment when she could feel nothing except the wind on her skin, not a single thought passed in front of her mind’s eye. There was nothing to do but fall in the last seconds she might be alive.

All too soon, the blankness passed, and her feet came into contact with something hard that jarred her bones and snapped her back to reality. Pain shot up her shins as her knees buckled. Arms out, her feet instantly slipped on whatever they had landed on, and she began to fall further. She cried out as her body crashed into multiple hard surfaces, her exposed skin tearing. She tried to reach out and grab something, anything, but she was falling too fast to accomplish it. Her dress became caught on something and was pulled up over her head as she continued to plummet through the branches. She could feel that her body was being bashed from all sides, accumulating painful injuries, but all she could feel were white-hot flashes as she struggled to slow her descent. Legs bent under her, she couldn’t get her feet back in the right position to break her fall. If there was a strategy to falling through trees, Laura didn’t know what it should be, but it wasn’t this.

A thick branch caught her chin and snapped her head back, plunging her into a haze and momentarily slackening her limbs. Laura tumbled like a rag doll down through what seemed like a never-ending maze of hard, sharp instruments designed to torture her until she thudded onto the ground. Stunned, she lay on her back with her eyes closed, not wanting to move just yet. Adrenaline pumped through her veins, but she felt her heartbeat beginning to back off its feverish pace. She was afraid if she moved, she would find out that her body no longer worked. Her muscles twitched, but surprisingly, there was little pain at the moment. Instinctively, she knew that soon, there would be pain, and lots of it, but her body was still in survival mode and wouldn’t let her feel it yet. She wasn’t sure if perhaps she should try and move before the pain set in, but lying limp on the mossy ground after everything that has just happened felt like heaven.

Well, maybe heaven was a bad choice of words. She was quite glad she wasn’t in heaven right now.

Rem.

Immediately, she prayed he had landed safely somewhere nearby.

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