Cold Fury (The Desecration of Innocence Book 4) by Candace Wondrak

Author:Candace Wondrak [Wondrak, Candace]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-04-30T16:00:00+00:00

Daddy wasn’t here. He’d gone off, locked up the house, and told me to be a good girl. I was Daddy’s girl, after all, and if I was good, he didn’t lock me in my room. I tried to be good for him, I did. His disappointment wasn’t what I wanted. There were few things I knew in this world, but that was one I knew in my very soul.

I was in the kitchen, eating the cereal Daddy had left down for me, when I heard something strange. My legs dangled off the side of the chair, not touching the floor. I wore a loose-fitting nightgown, my hair messy and knotted. Daddy enjoyed brushing my hair. I didn’t like doing it myself, so when he was gone, I didn’t.

My eyes glanced up from my bowl, and I waited. I thought I heard the sound again, whatever it was, and my curiosity got the better of me. I slipped off the chair, abandoning my bowl and the cereal, shuffling my feet on the floor.

The sound kind of reminded me of someone coughing, but I didn’t know. I froze the moment I heard it again, and I stared at a door on the other side of the kitchen, a door Daddy had forbidden me from going into. Bad girls didn’t listen. Bad girls got locked up. I didn’t want to be bad, but that sound… something about it made me pad my feet over to that very door.

I stared at the door. I wasn’t sure where it led. I didn’t go through it right away because Daddy said not to. My stomach rumbled; I didn’t know what to do. I wanted to be a good girl, but I also wanted to find the source of the sound. Would it really be so bad to see for myself? Daddy wasn’t here. Maybe I could keep it to myself, not tell him?

That didn’t feel right, but my curiosity got the better of me, and I pushed forward. I walked over to the door, my hand reaching out and gripping the knob. It took a few tries to get it to open—the thing was kind of stuck. That, or it was just hard to turn. Either way, I got it open, and after pushing the door in, I saw nothing but blackness.

I saw a light switch, and I had to reach to flick it on. Light illuminated the stairs down, and the sound stopped. I didn’t say a word as my feet took me into the stairwell. Down I went, the air growing colder with each step. Further and further I went, not knowing what I’d see.

Cold, sterile walls surrounded me. A large room, no rooms. A single light bulb hanging down, flickering on thanks to me and the light switch at the top of the stairs. I surveyed the area, finding a bed bolted to the floor, along with a bucket. And on the bed?

On the bed lay a woman.

At least, I thought it was a woman.

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