Flee by Caroline Clark

Author:Caroline Clark [Clark, Caroline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: CazClark.com
Published: 2019-05-06T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Four

The garden was preternaturally quiet and empty. No birds sang, there wasn’t even a breeze behind the hedge. Jenny felt irrationally spooked. It’s just a door.

Peering through the frame, past the splintered lock, and down the steps that disappeared into the blackness below filled her with dread.

“Hello?” she called into the dark. The sound echoed back to her.

The wooden stairs stretched down, going from semi-darkness to inky black. To her right she saw a light switch. Should she use it? She reached out to flick the switch, but if someone waited, it would warn of her approach.

“Rosie,” her voice was but a whisper. Swallowing she called again. “Rosie sweetheart are you down there?”

Nothing. The dark seemed to mock her. It soaked up the noise, and kept it down in that dank hole. Why was she being so silly, it was just a cellar? Or was it? Robert had lied, had said it was just a door to wasteland, and where was Rosie. Fear made her legs clumsy and heavy, and she hesitated before the steep and rickety steps. It was foolish to go down. She should wait for Simon, for the police. She turned around in the narrow space, and was engulfed in the conifers. Their musty scent seemed to clear her mind. Rosie could be down there, hurt. She knew the dog would not hesitate if she were in danger.

Turning back to the hole in the wall she put a foot on the first step. It gave slightly with her weight, and fear spidered down her spine. No way am I descending into the dark. She reached out, and flicked the switch up. Light illuminated the depths below, and cast a welcome glow on the stairs in front of her.

Putting one foot forward, she tested the next step. It creaked as it took her weight. Doubt stayed her foot. Should she wait for the police? Let them come down with her? But Robert could come back anytime, and Rosie was still missing. She paused just a second more, and then stepped onto the treads. One by one she descended the narrow stairway. Taking them quickly to prevent her fear from forcing her to run.

The concrete walls, whitewashed and rough, were covered in cobwebs and dust. Despite her rush she moved cautiously, keeping one eye on the door behind her, nervous it could slam shut, and seal her in this dank forbidding place. It grew colder with each descent, and her heart was pounding in her ears. She froze wanting to turn and run, but knowing she would never forgive herself if anything happened to Rosie.

Her legs didn’t want to move. Fear had paralyzed them, and she began to shake as a spider ran across her fingers and into a waiting web. Shaking her hand desperate to throw off the sticky filament she started to turn. It was too much — she must get out of here. A coward, she had given up on Rosie.

The thought stopped her. She would not leave, not until she knew what was down here.

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