Not Alone by Frederic Martin

Author:Frederic Martin [Martin, Frederic]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: NthSense Books

All Blue could remember were snapshots of things—streetlights going by, cigarette smoke, vinyl car seat. She had an aching forehead and she was woozy and couldn’t focus very well. She was aware that she was in a car and that she had tape across her mouth. She could feel that her hands and feet were bound but she was too dizzy to think straight or be afraid. She felt like she was in a fuzzy dream.

The next snapshot was being carried in the dark from the backseat of the car and through the side door of a yellow house.

And then she woke up in a bed in the dark. Her head was on a soft pillow and she had a blanket over her. It was comforting, even though she didn’t know where she was. Her hands and feet were still bound and the tape was still across her mouth. Her head ached and she felt dizzy but awake enough to be able to look around her. She tried to pierce the darkness with her eyes but it was hard with the pounding in her head. There was the very faintest glow from a shaded window, the light from the moon making the pane into a white square. She slowly made out the shape of a small bedroom. She identified a dresser on one wall and a nightstand next to the bed. There was a door across from her. It beckoned escape. A little flutter of hope started to well in her chest, but along with it was the growing realization of her predicament. And the danger she was in. Her eyes erupted in a reflexive cry, “Will . . . ?” A sharp pain in her head stopped the vox short.

The pain throbbed for a minute but then subsided. When she could think straight again, she ventured getting out of bed. She moved her legs toward the edge of the bed, but they stopped short, contained by an unyielding tether. At the same time, a sound of movement inside the room brought her wide-awake. She stared hard in the direction of the sound and then froze.

A dark, unidentifiable mass near the door came alive like a living shadow. It grunted, “Hmm, you’re finally awake.”

The mass expanded up and resolved itself into the shape of a person. It moved over towards her and as it did it leaked chiss, “Let’s see what we have here,” then spoke, “So I suppose you’re wondering where you are, but I bet you can guess who I am.”

Of course she knew. Even in the dark, there was no mistaking the voice or the chiss she had be surveilling all summer.

He went on, speaking in a reassuring tone but maintaining the slightest undercurrent of menace. “You are in a nice safe, secure spot, for now, and I’m not going to hurt you. At least, I won’t hurt you as long as you cooperate.”

Bronco squatted down next to the bed, and Blue could finally make out his familiar features.

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