The Secret of Cypriere Bayou by DeLeon Jana

Author:DeLeon, Jana [DeLeon, Jana]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Suspense
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-03-04T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

John tore open the door to the storage shed and grabbed a coil of rope from a shelf on the back wall, then ran back to the main house, hoping to God that the length of rope was long enough to reach Olivia. And that Olivia hadn’t panicked. He took the stairs two at a time, each step pounding out an echo through the house. He ran into the wardrobe and stopped short in the pitch-black.

What had happened to the floodlight?

He stepped back into the bedroom and lit the lantern on the nightstand, then dashed into the tunnel, his heart pounding so hard it made his temples throb. He lifted the lantern at the end of the tunnel, but the floodlight was nowhere to be seen. He lowered the lantern and saw the false floor was back in place, closing Olivia off completely.

Panicked, he pressed the trip switch on the ceiling and the floor panel slid silently back. He held the lantern into the opening, cursing when the light exposed only a couple of feet into the inky black. “Olivia! Olivia, can you hear me?”

But no one answered. “Olivia!” He strained to make out a noise, anything that might indicate she was still there and still breathing but the silence was deafening. He took a deep breath and tried to think. The bottom of the lift had to be in the basement. He needed to look in the basement.

He left the tunnel and studied the wall in the bedroom, estimating the length from the front wall of the house to the lift in the tunnel was about twenty feet. Based on his assessment of the second floor rooms the day before, he figured the tunnel was thirty to forty feet from the west wall of the house. He pulled his pistol from his ankle holster and checked it, then slipped it into the back of his jeans. That floodlight hadn’t removed itself, and if he ran into whoever was playing games they were going to get a long look at the short end of a gun.

He rushed down the stairs and into the kitchen where the entry for the basement was located. At the bottom of the basement stairs, he flipped the light switch to illuminate the cavernous space. It only took a second to get his bearings, then he hurried across the basement to a laundry area. The area was separated from the rest of the basement with a partial wall and the lights were out in the entire section. John had noticed it when working in the basement the day before, but hadn’t thought much of it. Now he wished he had.

He held the lantern close to the wall, scanning every inch of it with his eyes and free hand. This had to be it. His calculation of where the chute dropped was correct. But he found nothing to indicate an opening. Damn it. The desire to punch his fist straight through the brick wall was overwhelming and he struggled to get his raging emotions under control.

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