True Sacrifice by Amanda Mackey

Author:Amanda Mackey [Mackey, Amanda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Limitless Publishing LLC
Published: 2017-12-25T16:00:00+00:00

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Back at the hotel after a short cab ride, I locked and dead-bolted the door before hurrying to the bathroom. Placing the gun on the vanity, I almost collapsed with relief, yet fear and worry dug deeper. Outside the warehouse, I’d clung to the walls like a shadow, waiting on someone in hiding to shoot me, but all had remained quiet. Two dead bodies at the back door had failed to push me over the edge. In some ways I’d been relieved. I wanted vengeance on those who had brought this crap into my life.

I desperately needed some hot water to scald away remnants of the animal’s dirty hands on me. I’d been violated and abused, and it all began to hit me now. I placed Viper’s cell on the vanity next to the gun, which remained ready to shoot. I’d been clutching onto the phone’s silence like a lifeline since he’d given it to me, waiting on word that he’d saved Harley, but it remained quiet.

Peeling off my scrubs, I switched the faucets on and climbed into the shower, sinking to the floor under the cathartic spray. Surges of overwhelming sadness barreled through me as the adrenalin subsided and the magnitude of what I’d endured made sense in my head.

Deep heaves shook my chest as the water cascaded over me. I released loud sobs and let myself curl up and sag onto the slowly warming tiles.

The massive beating drum behind my rib cage stole my breath with its intense pounding, the beats jumping every so often from anxiety-fueled palpitations. Visions of evil shone like beacons behind my closed eyelids. Disturbed eyes chock-full of hate as if I’d been the one to kill his brother.

It’d witnessed no empathy or compassion for human life and I wondered how anyone could become so cold and calculated.

Huddling into myself I cried tears of grief and loss. I’d never be the same again. I’d lost a part of myself in the warehouse and perhaps even before that. Who could I trust now?

My close friends and family. Viper, Char, and Harley.

Switching thought patterns, my heart began to bleed for the man who’d put it all on the line for me without so much as a moment’s hesitation. And now, his life had been turned over to the asshole who had left a permanent imprint on my psyche.

His torment would be far greater than my own, death being the outcome. I couldn’t live with myself if he died. A certain amount of guilt would ride my shoulders for eternity, regardless of whether I had any say in his sacrificial offering.

I don’t know how long I lay on the shower floor mulling over everything. The water began to go cold, so I rose like a zombie and dried off, checking the phone again and finding nothing.

Wrapping myself in a hotel robe, I walked out to the bed and crawled on top, still grasping Viper’s cell. I stared at it, willing it to ring, my nauseated stomach overturning continuously.

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