Run Away With Me : A fast-paced psychological thriller by Daniel Hurst

Author:Daniel Hurst [Hurst, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Daniel Hurst
Published: 2021-02-17T22:00:00+00:00

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LAURA

I wish the rain would stop so I can go for a little walk around this cottage. I don’t want to go far, and I’m not interested in taking the risk of trying to get a phone signal again out along the main road, but I would like to stretch my legs. There’s so much land around here, and it would be nice to explore a little of it. I wouldn’t have to worry about anybody spotting me as long as I didn’t go too far, and I wouldn’t have to worry about not being back when Adam returns, whenever that may be.

He’s back in the village getting more supplies as well as checking the news and possibly even reading up on homebirths. He seemed a little surprised when I suggested the idea of trying to have Samuel here, but if Adam is a wanted man, then I’m not going to a hospital.

I’m not gaining a child but losing a husband on the same day.

Besides, home birthing isn’t such a big deal these days. Many people do it. I knew a woman in my office who had both her children at home. She said she delivered them in her bathroom and the whole experience was rather serene and nowhere near as stressful as her friends who had their babies in a hospital surrounded by beeping machines and overworked midwives.

I’m sure it’s not quite as simple as that, and I would prefer to deliver Samuel in a hospital, but if Adam is wanted by the police, then I can’t risk it. He could always drop me at the hospital and leave, but I’m sure the police would soon find out if a suspect’s wife had just checked in. Then they would question me, and even if they didn’t, I wouldn’t want to go through it if Adam wasn’t there. I want him beside me, holding my hand because we are in this together.

I glance at the window in the hope that the rain might have stopped, or at least eased off, but it’s still coming down fairly heavily, and I give up on the idea of a walk for another day. Instead, I’m going to have a fiddle around with the TV. I know Adam said it is broken and that he can’t get it working, but I’m so desperate to watch something that I’m going to have a go anyway. I’m going to turn all the switches on and off again, as well as jiggle all the cables around and anything else that might see me get lucky so I actually have something to do during the day.

I run my hand along the back of the TV set, but I can’t really see what I’m doing, so I carefully try and manoeuvre the screen away from the wall so I can look behind it. It’s not easy, particularly with my huge bump getting in the way, but I’m finally able to make enough of a gap behind the TV so that I can look behind it.

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