Snap, Crackle ... by Dale Mayer

Author:Dale Mayer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Suspense
ISBN: 9781773364827
Publisher: Valley Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2021-03-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

The next few days settled into an uneasy truce. Beth swam, rested, healed, swam, ate, healed. On the third morning she woke up, assessed how she felt, and, for the first time, took a long slow deep breath, searching deep inside herself to see just how the pain was. She had put up a lot of blocks, so she didn’t have to listen to her pain receptors. So many, so she didn’t have to worry about cringing every time she took a breath or stepped wrong. But it seemed like everything was going pretty well now. She slowly stood, not even wincing with pain as she bent and twisted with her morning stretches.

After a hot shower she felt even better. Dressed, she headed down to the kitchen but saw no sign of Hunter. She put on the coffee and rummaged in the fridge, looking for food. They were running low again and needed to get more groceries, something they were both avoiding. They had just enough reasons to stay here, where it seemed like they were somewhat safe. She knew Lizzy was out there; no way she wasn’t. And unfortunately Beth would have to step up and deal with that problem soon, but she just didn’t know how to do it yet.

She didn’t want to do anything to hurt Lizzy. They’d been best friends for the longest time; they were akin to sisters, and yet how could there ever be a friendship after being hunted by her? But Beth also knew Lizzy was hunting under duress and that Lizzy wouldn’t have done it on her own. No way she would have. But who knew how damaged she was at this point, or whether she had a choice in anything anymore?

Beth kept racking her brain for any way to cut loose from the energy that she knew Lizzy was tracking, but it’s not like Beth could simply excise it. Maybe, if they didn’t know each other and hadn’t spent years fighting against a common enemy, then maybe their energy wouldn’t be so intermingled. Cutting that energy from her own system would probably kill Beth. She’d thought about it a lot; she’d even tried a couple times, but the pain in her body had been excruciating, and the similar loss in her heart had been almost as bad.

As she stood here, staring out the window, she whispered, “I love you, Lizzy. Please stop doing this.”

She thought she heard an answer but probably just the wind. She tried hard to listen again, as she repeated her message twice and then a third time.

Hunter asked her from the doorway, “Is she answering you?”

Startled, she turned and stared at him, then shook her head. He frowned at her, as if knowing she was keeping something from him. She glared right back. “She can’t be,” Beth said. “It’s just my imagination.”

“And what is it that she’s saying, that you think is your imagination?” he asked, taking a step into the kitchen.

She immediately stepped back, so she was against the counter.

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