Georgina's Story (A Chase Adams FBI Thriller Book 4.5) by Patrick Logan

Author:Patrick Logan [Logan, Patrick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pathological Ink
Published: 2018-11-17T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

“Do you want to go outside again?” Brian asked, leaning into Georgina’s cell.

This time, she didn’t scamper away from the man but held her ground.

Then she nodded.

“Well, if you want to go outside, I need to hear ya say it,” Brian said in a soft voice.

Georgina raised her blue eyes and looked at the man. He was clean-shaven now but wasn’t smiling. Instead, Brian’s expression was as neutral as his voice. And he’d also come alone, Georgina realized, which was out of the ordinary. The man almost always had either Melissa or Sue-Ellen at his side when he came to visit her.

“I want to go outside,” Georgina stated.

She didn’t know how long it had been since she’d seen the outside world. After running through the grass with the other girls that one time, Georgina had been escorted back to her cell.

And then she’d waited.

Waited and waited and waited. Her longing for her family eventually faded, only to be replaced by something more tangible.

The desire to feel the warmth of the sun on her face, the prickle of the grass on her feet. The smell of fresh air.

“Yeah, I want to go outside,” Georgina said more forcefully.

And then the smile returned to Brian’s face.

“Good,” he said. “I want you to join your sisters too, Riley. That’s all I’ve wanted, since the very beginning: for you to become a part of our family.”

And then Brian held a thick palm out to her.

Georgina stared at his hand for a good thirty seconds before extending her own pale digits and taking hold. Brian’s smile grew as he helped her to her feet.

Just standing was uncomfortable; Georgina’s clothes were so soiled, so stiffened with sweat and dirt and grime, that the fabric poked into her pale skin. Every once in a while, one of the girls—one of her “sisters”— would bring her a clean pair of underwear, but that was it. Meanwhile, they moved freely and easily in their white dresses, which, Georgina noted, appeared clean and fresh every single time they made the trek down to the earthy dungeon.

“Come on! The sun is shining, and your sisters are waiting,” Brian said as he gently led her out of the cell.

Her muscles were weak and sore from hours of inactivity, but young as she was, it only took a couple steps before blood filled her tiny muscles. Soon, Georgina’s joints were also lubricated.

The idea of being outside was enough to push any minor annoyances to the back of her mind.

As Brian took her up a set of stairs and through a trapdoor, something else happened.

Something that hadn’t happened in so long that it was almost unfamiliar to her.

Georgina started to smile. It was a small expression at first, just the corners of her tiny heart-shaped mouth turning upward, but when Brian opened the front door and the sun poured down on her, it grew.

And when she caught sight of her sisters in their white dresses holding hands and running through the field, Georgina’s smirk became a full-fledged smile.

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