Missing in Conard County by Rachel Lee

Author:Rachel Lee
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-10-15T19:40:47+00:00

Chapter Eight

Day 17

Chantal and Jane had passed the point of caring much anymore. The cold was gripping them constantly, and their bodies demanded that they eat. They gobbled down food bars without a thought for what might be in them, and when a big package of sandwich cookies showed up, those disappeared in record time.

They’d even stopped worrying about what was in the water bottles. Survival had come down to instincts they could no longer ignore. With chains holding them, they huddled close and were even grateful when a second blanket appeared with the food while they were sleeping. Sleeping or knocked out. They didn’t know.

They felt they were being watched sometimes, but were past caring about that, too. They struggled to get the second blanket wrapped around them with the first. It, too, stank, but it smelled like an unwashed body.

“He never met a washing machine he liked,” Chantal said, a weak attempt at humor. She couldn’t see Jane at all, but heard what sounded like the breath of a laugh.

They’d stopped asking why. They couldn’t imagine why they were captive, and they’d given up hope that Mary Lou wasn’t already dead.

Chantal, though she’d never said so to Jane, remembered that moment when she’d felt as if Mary Lou had said goodbye. If she was dead, at least she was out of this. Safe. Free of the cold and the terror.

The food warmed them temporarily, as did the extra blanket, and this time when she started to fall asleep, Chantal thought it was natural sleep.

At least she hoped it was.

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