Her Tiger Twins by Bonnie Burrows

Author:Bonnie Burrows [Burrows, Bonnie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-07-24T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

Samantha heard the trunk close and listened to sounds of Grant’s footsteps as they faded around the corner. She didn’t move, afraid that he might still be within sight of the car and able to see her. She counted to fifty slowly before she sat up, certain that he’d had plenty of time to get into the house and out of sight.

Sitting up, she pulled on the handle of the back door, groaning in frustration when the door didn’t budge. He’d engaged the child locks, effectively making her a prisoner in the back seat. She carefully climbed over the gear shift, stopping for a moment when a wave of dizziness overcame her and she felt nauseated. When she felt better, she continued her slow, careful movements and reached for the door.

Her fingers were inches from the handle when the lock engaged and the alarm light turned on. Her head flew up, but she was alone in the carport.

“Shit,” she muttered under her breath, “he must be in the back of the house with the damn key.”

She was trapped now. Her car doors wouldn’t open without the key fob within ten feet. What was worse, if she even tried, the alarm would go off, alerting Grant that she was awake and trying to escape. Surely there was a way to disable it, a failsafe for a situation where you would find yourself trapped in the car, but Samantha’s head was spinning and she couldn’t even begin to figure out exactly what that failsafe was.

Frustrated, she climbed back into the back seat, getting into nearly the same position and settling in to wait. He would be coming back, of that she was sure, but she didn’t know what she was going to do now. She still felt sick from the blow to her head, and she was feeling unsteady on her feet. She’d hoped to make a run for the woods, heading east towards the state park instead of south towards her house like he would assume she would.

Even though he hadn’t realized that she’d come to in the car, had he come back to find her missing, she knew that his first instinct would be to head south towards her home. She’d come to before they’d even left the neighborhood, the windshield wipers and the roaring storm effectively masking her initial gasp when her eyes had opened and she’d found herself in danger.

Thinking quickly, she’d calmed herself, taking careful stock of what she could see out the window and counting off the seconds that passed as he drove. She didn’t know how fast he’d been going, but one thing was for sure; she was less than five miles from her home surrounded by woods that she knew like the back of her hand. If she could get away and get a head start, she had a clear advantage.

Enough with the pity party already, she thought, angry at herself for falling into the arms of fear. You have to think of another way out.

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