His Darkest Need: A Dark Arranged Marriage Romance: Dark Duet Book 1 by Rae B. Lake

Author:Rae B. Lake [Lake, Rae B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-07-30T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Elora

My face feels like it's on fire. Everything hurts. I can barely open my eyes. When I do manage to pry my eyelids open the sun is high overhead. I must have slept right through the morning and into the afternoon. I'm still in the same position in the tree and even though the leaves are keeping a lot of the sunlight from my face it's not keeping all of it off.

I don't hear anyone below me and need to get out of this tree before I catch heat stroke. I slowly shimmy down the trunk and finally make it to the ground. I make my way back toward the house. Even from a distance I can tell the fire has been extinguished. I don't see the thick black smoke that was billowing up to the heavens last night, now I only see wispy white smoke slowly rising up.

As I get closer to the destruction that was my home I see flashing blue and red lights.

"Oh my God! Yes! Yes!" I jump up slightly in excitement. There are cop cars and fire department vehicles all over the grounds. I could get one of them to take me into the city and then from there maybe find a way to get to a shelter or something like that.

It surprises me that the house is not complete rubble. In fact it only looks like the far north corner of the mansion is the only part that collapsed and even there the foundation and structure is still intact.

I have never been so happy to see cops in my life. I take off in a sprint trying to get out of the trees so the police officers and firefighters can see me.

Freedom, it's right there.

"Hey! I'm here! Help me please!" I scream at the top of my lungs, but with everything going on so close to the house no one can hear me. I keep running, my eyes focused on the prize ahead. Just as I make it to the edge of the tree line, I open my mouth to call out again.

Just as the first sound squeaks out of my mouth a heavy hand wraps around my mouth.

"Mmmm!" I try to scream, but the person is already pulling me back into the trees. I elbow them in the gut. Despite that I'm only met with hard abs and they don't let me go.

"You're going to have to do better than that, Elora." The person grunts in my ear.

Fuck, it's one of the people that had killed my mother and tried to burn my home down. I’d thought they were all out of the area. I lock one of my feet in the dirt and try to turn my body away from the man holding me, but that only makes him turn me towards him.

It's fucking Alessandro, one of Laz's best friends and a sadistic killer. God, it's worse than I’d thought. Laz has come back for me.

I whip my head back and forth to get his hands off my mouth.

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