Escaping the Darkness: A Dark Horror Romance by Cora Masters & Georgia Wells

Author:Cora Masters & Georgia Wells [Masters, Cora & Wells, Georgia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Phantom Pen
Published: 2023-09-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

DAHLIA

The device kept shocking us. The others screamed and moaned in pain as the jolts of electricity surged through us. It was like my arm was on fire. Literally dipped into the bowels of a lightning bolt. We would never get out, never. No matter what we did, he would always be one step ahead of us. Not only that, I’d killed one of his minions. That meant we were dead. All of us.

Existential dread fluttered in my chest even as the pain in my arm tried to wipe out all other thoughts. I was going to die. Was this how he’d do it? With the devices? He would do it. The image flashed before my eyes: all of us writhing on the floor until our hearts stopped.

Blessedly, before any of us died, the shocks ceased. The huge gasp of air I sucked in did little to calm my fried central nervous system. My hands twitched with the memory of the electric current as I tried to get to my feet.

"What the fuck?" Bri hissed. "What happened?"

"I don’t know," I said honestly. "I thought we’d killed him. It must have been someone who worked for him, though. It was the guy who came around in the suit."

Elise’s eyes bulged. "You killed the suit guy?"

"Chopped his head off," I said.

Elise put her hands to the sides of her head trying to hold her skull together. "We’re fucked. Holy shit."

Drake held his hands up, looking toward the speakers built into the ceiling. "Everyone calm down. We aren’t dead yet. Maybe he, uh, I don’t know, needs to keep us alive. Right?"

"Like he did with Liam?" Bri asked, spitting the words out like venom.

Before anyone could say anything else, the door of the dining room clicked open. All five of us spun to look at it, synchronized, like one creature with five heads.

"What does that mean?" Payton whispered.

As an answer, our devices buzzed painlessly, and a message appeared:

Go to bed.

"We’re dead. He’s gonna kill us in our sleep, isn’t he?" Elise said, staring at her watch.

Drake heaved a heavy and exhausted sigh. "If he wants us dead, he can do it any time he wants. I, for one, am going to go to sleep. At least if I die, it will be with a little less exhaustion."

He didn’t wait for any of us to retort before striding toward the door. The rest of us shared a look and headed out to follow him. I doubted many of us would actually sleep. Though if the things I saw in the bunker were real, then he’d just gas us and knock everyone out anyway. Regardless of what we did, we’d be unconscious in our rooms soon. The thought sent a wave of uncertainty and terror through me. The thought of lying down in that bed, closing my eyes, and never waking up was more than I could take.

At my door, Drake stopped and put a hand on my lower back. "It’ll all work out. Stay calm.

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