Ruby Red Rebels by Vivien Dean

Author:Vivien Dean [Dean, Vivien]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-09-08T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Serena had always considered herself to be in good shape. She worked out on a semi-regular basis, she could chase up five flights of stairs in order to make a late interview without losing her breath, she’d been known to be the last dancer on the floor at more than one college party.

Climbing a wall with only her legs and back for leverage and then having to kick it out was in a totally different league.

Her breathing was labored by the time she fell through the opening. All she could do was stay in the same spot she landed, crumpled into a boneless ball as she waited out the pounding in her ears. Somehow, she managed to call out to Max waiting below, but her muscles took a long time to react to the instructions she gave them to move.

If there were any vampires waiting on this level, she was so dead meat.

Resting her palms against the floor, Serena pushed herself upright, ignoring the wavering in her thighs as they protested being used again. When they got out of here, she was going to sleep the entire day through. Then she was going to call into work on Monday and tell them she’d be on her laptop at home. And then, she’d call her dad and give him another piece of her mind for dragging them into this mess in the first place. Because she was still going to have to come back for the bracelet. It was either that or start a whole new life somewhere else.

She liked the life she had. She was going to fight just a little longer.

A single light bulb mounted high in a corner offered the only illumination in the room. Serena didn’t need much more to see the same supplies lining the walls, the accoutrements of running a bar—even a vampire bar—stacked elsewhere. She held her breath as she rounded the partition wall, but the other side was just as deserted. Whoever was guarding them—if anybody was guarding them—was upstairs.

Her heart sank when she saw the heavy boxes barricading the trap door that led down to the second cellar. That was why Max hadn’t been able to budge it. The boxes were too heavy and the angle too awkward for him to move them.

Serena went back to the hole in wall, leaning over the crate that blocked the part of the wall she must have kicked on her first attempt to break through.

“There’s stuff on top of the trapdoor,” she called down to Max. “I’m not sure how I’m going to move it.”

“No guards?”

“No.”

“Is there a dolly or anything around you can use? Even if you only get a little bit off the door, maybe I can push from this side until it opens.”

It took a few minutes of looking around to find a dolly lying forgotten in the corner, its wheels dusty and rusted from disuse. It squeaked and complained as she pushed it around the wall, but it slid underneath the bottom crate with ease.

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