Siren by Sam Michaels

Author:Sam Michaels [Michaels, Sam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781789542202
Publisher: Head of Zeus
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

14

Johnny reluctantly opened his eyes and realised that someone knocking on his front door had woken him. He grabbed his wristwatch from his nightstand and switched on the bedside lamp. Squinting at the watch face, he groaned when he saw it was three thirty-five in the morning.

The tapping on the door continued. He threw his legs over the edge of the bed and pulled a robe over his naked body, shivering as his bare feet felt the coldness of the floor. Perplexed at who would be knocking him up at this time of the night, he grabbed his gun before going to the door.

‘Who is it?’ he called, being sure to take precautions against gunfire, standing sideways on to the door with his back against the wall.

‘It’s me, Mr Dymond, Elsie Flowers.’

Elsie Flowers, Johnny thought, his face screwed up in consternation. What on earth was the woman doing at his door? He pulled it open and looked behind her before stepping outside and glancing left and right. She was alone. And when his eyes set on her, he was shocked to see her arm in plaster and bruises on her face.

She stood, her body trembling and tears on her cheeks. ‘Please… can you h-help me?’ she asked meekly through her chattering teeth.

He held out his arm and ushered her indoors, though it wasn’t much warmer in his small lounge than outside. ‘Sit down, I’ll make you a hot drink,’ he offered and fetched two blankets from his bed, one which he draped across her shoulders and the other over her lap.

‘Thank you,’ she said in little more than a whisper.

When he came back into the room with a cup of sweet tea, he was pleased to see she had stopped crying and her body was now still. He handed her the cup. When she looked up gratefully at him with her big blue eyes, he felt his heart melt for her.

‘What are you doing here?’ he asked gently.

‘I didn’t know where else to go. You gave me your address which I memorised before putting it on the coals. You don’t mind, do you?’

‘No, no, of course not. Did your husband do this to you?’

Elsie bowed her head, slowly nodding. ‘He hit me and then to cover up what he’d done, he tried to make me throw myself down the stairs. I couldn’t, so he pushed me.’

A sob caught in her throat and Johnny’s chest constricted in anger. How could that vile man do this to his beautiful wife? He wanted to kill the evil bastard. ‘Don’t fret,’ Johnny reassured her. ‘You’re safe here and I’ll make sure he never hurts you again.’

‘He’ll come looking for me. He won’t let me leave him. He keeps me shackled to our bed at night. I only managed to run away because I was in the hospital.’

Johnny paced the room, walking through his anger. The thought of the poor woman shackled to her bed at night burned furiously inside him.

‘Like I said, don’t fret. He won’t find you here and if he does, I’ll see to him.

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