Not as I Do by Avery Towers

Author:Avery Towers [Towers, Avery]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Soft & Hard Publishing
Published: 2020-02-21T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Whoever said that was so close to my ear that I could feel their breath on my neck, putting every single fine hair on end. There was no doubt in my mind that the words spoken were meant for me. Gift? I got a sudden sick feeling in the pit of my stomach. The ruby bracelet had been Amy’s. A gift…

He was here…

The man who had killed Selena and Amy was here. And potentially the man who framed my father and killed my mother. Who was it?

Oh God! I gasped as I finally broke my temporary paralysis and spun around to see who was behind me. Considering that the crowd was a sea of strangers, I’m not sure what I expected to see. There was no one running for the doors or staring at me with any sort of interest.

Dammit. I’d had a chance and missed out. Damn and double damn. If I had reacted sooner, I’d have known who it was. And now he was still out there, hunting me. Watching me.

“Hey miss. Miss! Water.”

The person next to me gave my shoulder a shake and pointed to the bartender. I turned long enough to throw the money onto the bar and grab the bottles before rushing the best I could through the crowd and to Tabitha. If the killer was here, she wasn’t safe. If for some reason he wanted to play with me, well so be it, but not her. I couldn’t allow anything to happen to Tabitha…. He took my mother from me, and my father; I wouldn’t put it past him to take my only friend from me too.

I began pushing my way through the crowd, not giving a shit about the crude words thrown in my direction as I pushed past. There were so many people, it seemed like it was taking hours to get to her. Killing someone in a club filled with people wasn’t his style — but still. As I shoved through I kept scanning the crowd, hoping I’d catch someone staring at me or Tabitha, but I didn’t see a thing.

Maybe those whispered words had been my imagination? The thought did come to mind. But if I’d imagined the voice in my ear and his breath on my neck then I’d also imagined that note and the bracelet. It was better safe than sorry. Those things were real.

“Alicia…. What’s wrong?” Tabitha asked when I got within a couple feet of her. The man she’d been talking to took a drink from his bottle of beer as he watched us.

“Nothing. Nothing is wrong.” I can’t say exactly why I didn’t tell her about the voice, maybe I didn’t want to alarm her or maybe I was scared she’d think I was just being paranoid. Or — even worse — ask too many questions. “Just a lot of people.”

She laughed, “It’s a nightclub and it’s Saturday night silly.”

“Yeah, just the murders and all. It’s got me antsy.” I passed her a bottle of unopened water.

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