The Island Angel by Alex Slorra

Author:Alex Slorra [Slorra, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: stranded, LGBT, Thriller, framed, fraud, NineStar Press, Contemporary, conspiracy, Lindisfarne
ISBN: 9781949909630
Publisher: NineStar Press, LLC
Published: 2018-01-15T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

JESSICA COULDN’T FIND any ice, so she grabbed a bag of frozen peas. She had just closed the fridge when the lights went out.

“Shit.” She remembered seeing a torch in Anna’s junk drawer and felt her way around the table to the sideboard.

“Abbie! Jessica!” Anna’s frightened voice called.

In the dark, Jessica raced upstairs and was about to open the door to Anna’s bedroom when a LED light flashed, and a hand snatched at her wrist.

“Wait. You have to be careful,” Abbie said, then shouted through the bedroom door, “Mum. It’s me and Jessica.”

“Is anyone else with you?” Anna asked, terror ripping apart the syllables.

“No, Mum, just us.” Abbie turned to Jessica. “Open the door but be careful. She might have her hammer.”

“What?” Jessica tried to read Abbie’s face, but she could only see her outline in the diffused light from her phone.

“She has a hammer under her bed. When she’s scared, she gets it out. She almost hit me with it by mistake.”

“God.” Jessica opened the door and stepped in. “Anna. It’s me.”

Standing in the corner beside the bed, Anna’s form was revealed by Abbie’s phone. She was wet from the shower and wrapped in a towel. In her right hand, she held a claw hammer in a defensive position away from her chest.

Without hesitation, Jessica went to her. She took the hammer from her hand and threw it onto the bed. She wrapped Anna into a hug and held her. “Honey, it’s only a power cut.”

Jessica could feel the woman’s frantic breathing. “We need to check if he’s here,” Anna muttered.

“Mum, no one else is here.” Abbie rubbed her arm.

“You’re safe,” Jessica soothed.

“I’m…sorry, sorry… Where’s Sarah?”

“I’m here,” Sarah’s voice came from behind. She also had her phone with her, and its light flashed around the room.

For a moment, all that could be heard was Anna’s slowing pants. “Sorry, panicked.”

Jessica released Anna and turned to her friend, “Can you sit with her? I’ll find some candles.”

“Of course,” Sarah said, before letting out a gasp. “Fucking shitholes. Did you just do that?” Sarah’s phone was shining on Anna’s black and blue thigh.

Anna shook her head. “Daisy stepped on me. My fault.”

“God, girl. Sit down for fuck’s sake.”

“Sarah, your language,” Anna said in a whisper.

“Mum, it’s okay.” Abbie collected the hammer and shoved it under the bed.

“Can you help me find the candles, Abbie?” Jessica asked.

“Yeah.”

After collecting candlesticks from the lounge, they placed them together on the farmhouse table and lit the candles. “Your mum hasn’t eaten, so I’m going to make something. I guess it’ll have to be a sandwich. Do you want anything?”

Abbie shook her head.

“Does your mum get scared a lot?” she asked while grabbing ham, lettuce, tomatoes, and butter from the lifeless interior of the fridge.

“Not always, just at night. But I’m at school most nights.”

“Do you know what scares her?” Jessica asked as nonchalantly as she could. However, in the candlelight, she could see Abbie’s frown turn into a scowl and then, to Jessica’s astonishment, her expression shifted to utter sadness and tears broke loose.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.