Red Alert by Andersen Jessica

Author:Andersen, Jessica [Andersen, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Suspense
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-12-19T17:48:35+00:00

WHEN SHE WOKE, she couldn’t breathe.

Her lungs seized up, burning without heat.

She tried to suck in a breath, tried to scream for help. Pain slashed through her, folding her double on the bed. Some part of her was aware that it was light outside, that it was morning and she was alone in her bedroom. But the larger part of her begged for air, for life.

Help me! She struggled to cry out, but no sound emerged. Her ribs ached with the effort as her body fought to scream and her lungs remained closed. Erik, help me!

He was downstairs. She could get to him. She had to.

Heart pounding in her ears, in her suddenly empty chest, she struggled from the bed and fell, taking one of the brass bedside lamps with her in a crash of metal and broken bulb.

Her eyes misted, though there was no smoke. The room was clear. Then the smell hit her, acrid and burning though she hadn’t drawn a breath through her nose. Hadn’t drawn a breath at all.

It smelled like bleach, only stronger. More acrid.

Got. To. Get. Down. Stairs.

Her head spun with the lack of oxygen, but she forced herself onto her hands and knees, forced herself across the room. Forced herself to grab the doorknob.

It didn’t turn.

Somewhere in her brain she remembered locking it. She needed to turn the dead bolt the previous owners had installed to keep the kids out when mom and dad needed privacy. But her fingers couldn’t do the job. Her eyes couldn’t see through the mask of tears. She. Couldn’t. Do. It.

A roaring, rushing noise crashed over her, deafening her to everything but the jerky beat of her heart. She heard the beat falter. Slow. Stumble. And she knew she was dying.

She slumped against the door, boneless.

The last thing she heard was someone shouting her name.

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