Golden: A Paranormal Romance by Ellis Marie

Author:Ellis Marie [Marie, Ellis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Typewriter Pub
Published: 2021-06-24T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINETEEN

There’s a ringing in my ears that won’t let up. I wince at the feeling of it, as though it’s echoing through my head.

What is going on?

Something is heavy across my legs and won’t budge, a warmth spreading where it touches me. I slowly sit up, rubbing my hands across my eyes, brushing off whatever is coating them.

My eyes blink open, and it takes a moment for me to understand what I’m seeing. My brain struggles to comprehend my eyes as I take it in.

If I had thought the house looked like a war zone before, then I don’t exactly know what I would call this.

Debris lay on everything; every surface no longer remains intact, pieces of roof or wall or something are crossed above me, and some light is breaking through a hole at the top. I look around at the surface that I’m lying on and realise that I’m lower than ground level. An almost perfect circle is around me and the walls seem to stop at the outline of it.

What happened?

Something moves beside me. I almost scream, but the brush of fur and a whine in my ear calms me. I reach out, touching the dog’s fur as he comes into the little bit of light.

“Obi.” I sigh with relief as he leans his head into me and my eyes tear up. “You’re okay, good boy.”

I can only believe that it’s a miracle that he’s okay. God knows how he isn’t trapped under something.

But my legs are, and whatever it is, it’s groaning.

Cole.

Realisation floods through me as I gasp and shuffle forward, gently pulling myself up and towards the figure at my feet. A sob leaves my chest as I touch his, carefully moving him off me.

“Cole,” I whisper as I try to make out his features, but there’s no response and my chest tightens. “Help!” I try to scream but the debris fly into my throat and cut me off as I cough, my haggard breathing shaking me. “Cole, please,” I cry, shaking him a little in desperation.

It was a bomb.

Someone had thrown a bomb through my front window, and now, Cole is hurt and we’re trapped.

What if they were coming back?

“Cole, please.”

A buzzing sound breaks through my panic. I look down at the figure who is unmoving but the pocket in his jeans is lit up through the material.

“Oh my god,” I gasp and grab it, yanking it out of the pocket as I see a name flash across the cracked screen. “Trent?” I manage to choke out, tears spilling down the side of my face as Obi lies beside me, a comforting head on my lap.

“Elle? Is that you? Elle, what happened?” His voice sounds frantic. I can almost feel his worry through the phone. “Where are you?”

“A bomb,” I manage to get out, the words like swallowing gravel. “The house.”

“Hurry up! It’s down that way!” Trent shouts at someone on the other end of the phone. I almost want to laugh at the authoritative tone that he uses but the pain that it causes makes it stop.

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