SCARRED - Part 5 by Kylie Walker

Author:Kylie Walker [Walker, Kylie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Kylie Walker
Published: 2015-05-27T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

When Jake got to the studio to pick her back up, Chloe was showered, dressed and ready to go.

“How’d it go?” he asked her.

She smiled. “Good. I knocked Max on his ass!”

Jake grinned and gave her a high five. “That’s awesome. At least I’m not the only one you beat up recently.” They both laughed and he asked, “Are you hungry?”

“I am starving,” she said.

“Me too. I went by Derek’s office to sign those papers his staff was asking about and I honestly didn’t stop signing or reviewing things until I finally just told them I absolutely had to go.”

“Is his work getting way behind?”

“I think we took care of the pressing things today. Dad and I both have power of attorney so they can scan or fax things to either of us if they need a signature. They’re just all so saddened and they seem kind of lost without him.”

“I know how they feel,” she said.

He nodded. “Me too. I need to go by the marina and check on the yacht. Do you want to just get something to eat on the pier?”

“That sounds good.”

Jake asked the driver to take them down to the marina. As soon as they turned into the parking lot, Chloe felt sad. She thought about the last time she and Derek had stayed on the boat together. It was the night that she’d been sure Jesse was watching them. She’d had that feeling many times since. She’d even begun to start trying to plan a way that she could be alone, just to get it over with. She didn’t want anyone else around when she took Jesse on. She couldn’t bear for anyone else to get hurt.

She and Jake went onto the boat and Jake went down into the engine room to check on things down there while Chloe cleaned the old things out of the refrigerator. She had the water on washing dishes when she heard a creak. It sounded like someone stepping on an old wood floor...or the wooden stairs that led down to the living quarters. She stopped and listened. She didn’t hear anything else, so she went back to her dishes. A few seconds passed and she heard it again. She turned off the water and said, “Jake?”

The creaking stopped and no one answered. Her heart began to pound relentlessly inside her chest and her breaths started coming faster. She could almost feel the adrenaline flooding her veins.

“Jake?” she called out again.

Silence.

Chloe dried her hands on the dish towel and took a step towards the stairs. She heard the creak again.

“Who’s there?”

Silence.

She closed the space between her and the foot of the stairs. They went halfway up and then there was a blind curve where you couldn’t see anything until you turned the corner. There was no one on the bottom half.

“Jake?”

This time she said it louder.

Still silence.

She reached out and took hold of the banister and pulled herself up onto the bottom step. That was when she heard the all-out pounding of footsteps running across the top of the yacht.

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