One Step Ahead by Audrey Walker

Author:Audrey Walker [Walker, Audrey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-05-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Robin gazed into the darkness, her body trembling with fear. A hand reached out to her from under the stairs, and a pair of eyes shone within the dim light.

“Robin?” the voice whispered.

Robin reached out, touching the pale hand that was offered to her. It was a small hand, pale and weak. She could see the bones protruding from it, and as she touched it, she realized that it was cold. As cold as death. She tried to pull her hand back, but the cold, pale hand suddenly gripped hers. Robin wrestled, trying to free herself, but she couldn’t. The hand that held her started to morph and contort. The fingers elongated, and claws grew out of it, and before she knew it, a monstrous talon gripped her hand.

She looked up and found herself staring into a pair of cold eyes and a pale face with a maniacal grin on its face.

“Gotcha!” A guttural voice snarled in her ear, and Robin screamed.

Robin woke up with a gasp, her heart thudding in her chest and her body jittering. The dream was so fresh in her mind that she felt as if it had all been real. But it couldn’t have been. There was no monster under the stairs, was there?

She looked at her watch and sighed as she realized that she had only been sleeping for five minutes. It was four in the morning, and she hadn’t managed to catch any sleep. She looked down at the cases on her desk, ruffling through the files. Her head ached, and it was constant, so much so that she had forgotten what it was like to be without it. Everyone had been staying late these days, trying to work on the case at hand. The public was getting more and more anxious, and the Mayor was now involved.

Suddenly, every phone in the precinct started ringing, and Robin looked toward Kyle. He was looking at her with a pale face, and then he picked up the phone.

“Another murder,” he said after ending the call. “It’s the Executioner. He has done it again.”

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