The Reckoning by Susan Saxx

Author:Susan Saxx
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Susan Saxx

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She was exhausted now, yet needed to act.

She was now committed to her course of action and had to move, for it would drive her crazy to be still, she must move though her feet were of lead.

She crept up the long staircase, terrified. Had he gone out, or was he even now following behind her, watching her every move, amused?

She came to the first bedroom on the right. The tall dark door stood in front of her defiantly. Did she dare?

She reached for the door-knob, and found the door ajar. She gently pushed it open. Taking a step in, she looked around, and…gasped.

There, in the middle of the room was a huge silver pail, filled to the overflowing with the hated stalks, already exuding their blood red liquid to the floor in crimson puddles….

All of a sudden she couldn’t bear to see what was in the other rooms. But if the overwhelming odor was any indication, he had done a lot of weed gathering that afternoon. All to show her he was boss, and what he wanted would take place.

And what he wanted was to pay her back and finally claim her.

She flew down the staircase.

She was in the yellowed kitchen now, wondering what to do.

Trembling, she moved towards the back door that often as a child she had flung open to run into the wide-open arms of her aunt—but that was a lifetime ago.

Where was he?

Was he still in the house? Should she run, or had he left it to come around to the back door, where she was now standing?

If so, should she lock it? If she pulled back the thinning cotton curtain, would his cold, laughing face appear in the window?

She tried to put her hand on the old ceramic doorknob, considered locking it.

Would the latch hold if he was outside? Would he enjoy toying with her knowing she would first have run around to all the other doors and windows, frantically trying to get to them all in time, to lock them, all the while wondering—was she locking her worst enemy in with her?

Or would he attack her from behind and put his rigid hand on the door, blocking escape forever, as he put his hands on her throat with that wild look in his eyes she had seen many times before, and would he suffocate her one inch at a time?

A million possibilities raced through her head, as her trembling hand almost reached the doorknob.

She stared at it, aware of all the empty space behind her.

She heard a creak—and then almost imperceptibly…the doorknob turned on its own ever so slightly.

She screamed, and turned to run. The door flung open with a violent bang. A forceful hand grabbed her shoulder, preventing escape. She screamed with all her might!

Two huge hands shook her, and all of a sudden a loud male voice screamed into her ears.

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