In the Still of the Night by Callie Hutton

Author:Callie Hutton [Hutton, Callie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-11-12T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Anyone who has heard the blood-curling noise of chimpanzees in an excited mode would never, ever forget the sound. With the carousel still playing organ music and spinning, the chimps screeching, and Albert laughing over the radio, Holly felt as if she would lose her mind.

Chimpanzees were one of the most dangerous animals to humans. By five years of age, they were stronger than most humans. They’d been known to rip off people’s faces and, even behind bars they could, and would, bite off a finger or two.

With the two chimpanzees on the loose, Holly definitely had to get out of the zoo as quickly as possible and forget about getting to her cell phone in the office. She took an abrupt turn to the left and headed for the barbed-wire fence surrounding the zoo.

Forced to stop when she arrived at the fence, she bent over and placed her hands on her knees, trying desperately to gain enough air to climb over the fence. One thing this horrendous chase through the zoo had taught her was she needed to get into some sort of exercise program.

The chimpanzees were going wild. There were five in the zoo, and she had no way of knowing how many Albert had released, and how he even managed to do it since those animals were behind electrified fences. Was it a sin to pray one of them got Albert?

Holly studied the fence in front of her--a chance to escape. The barbed wire at the top was frightening. But not as scary as what was behind her, coming in her direction. She thought first of taking off her shirt and throwing it over the wire so she would avoid some injuries in the climb.

Then she decided her cargo pants were much stronger and quickly undid her belt and removed them. If Albert had a pair of binoculars, which he probably did since he seemed to be able to see her from a distance, she would give him an eye-full with her tight joggers on, but at this point she would climb over naked if it got her out of the zoo and away from him and the chimpanzees.

She climbed up and yelped as her hand hit the uncovered wire. A lone tear slid down her face as she sucked on the cut.

“Hollyyyyyy. Why are you taking your pants off? I’m not quite ready yet for sex. We’ll do that right before I slit your throat.” Creepy laughter.

“Oh God.” Cut or no cut, she was going over the fence. She took a deep breath and climbed over, attempting to keep her hands on the pants as much as she could. Her eyes teared at the cuts and stabs into her skin as she eased over the fence.

She dropped down and tugged the pants off the fence, ripping them in parts, then raced toward the parking lot with them in her hand.

She was free!

For a minute, she couldn’t remember where she parked her car. Not that there were any other vehicles, except Rebecca’s, but there were two lots she could have parked in.

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