Monstrous Deeds by Katerina Raven

Author:Katerina Raven [Raven, Katerina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Florid Romance
Published: 2023-10-25T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

Temperance

“JD! She’s making a break for it!”

My heart hammered as the sounds of screams echoed off the walls and split my ears through all the ringing. So many explosions. So many bullets. Tears rolled down my face. All I wanted was to curl up in Dad’s arms, but he told me to run, and my body didn’t protest. I begged him to run with me, but he wouldn’t leave without Mom. He said I had to trust him because he couldn’t save us both, and I could still get away. Mom was trapped with those men.

The aisles were packed, so the only way through was over the pews. One after another, I jumped and jumped again as people rushed out into the aisles. I had to get back to Pastor Montgomery’s office. There was a back door I could run out of.

“KP, careful with that!” a man’s deep voice shouted over the screams and the sound of fire tearing through the room. “Throw it behind. Toss her! Don’t hit her! We need her alive!”

My legs burned from catapulting myself over each pew, but I had to keep going. Now that most of the rows had cleared, I thought I could run across the backs. Dad put me in enough ballet and dance classes growing up that I wasn’t a total klutz, but I also wasn’t running for my life in those classes, either.

When I cleared a pew, I jumped onto the back of the one in front of it, then the back of the one in front of that, running across the backs to decrease my efforts and increase my speed. I watched every footfall carefully, but I looked up to see how far I had to go.

Everything looked like it did in movies when they pulled cameras back while zooming in, making the background distorted while focusing on the main character in the scene. The door stayed the same size, but everything around it seemed to move on its own, and I wasn’t sure if that was my panic or if I’d hit my head without realizing it. It might have been the heat in the air causing everything to look wavy.

Boom!

An explosion went off behind me, and it felt like God himself kicked me in the back, throwing me forward hard. My side hit the pew ahead of me as the one under me all but disintegrated beneath my feet. My ribs crunched as my body folded over the pew, then I recoiled hard, getting dropped into a pile of rubble.

My side ached unmercifully, and my ears rang as my head swam. I felt like I might throw up. I heard a scream in the aisle ahead of me.

“Sit down, bitch!”

A loud, feminine oof echoed out, then crying. “Please! Please don’t kill me. I teach special education. I’m only twen—”

Bang!

A loud shot rang out, effectively silencing the voice. The crunch of debris under heavy feet grew closer, and a hand roughly grabbed and turned my head, so I looked into his covered face.

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