Visions of Dread by Jada Fisher

Author:Jada Fisher [Fisher, Jada]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fairfield Publishing
Published: 2020-03-29T22:00:00+00:00

9

High-Speed Chase

Everything was going too fast.

My blood was rushing past my ears, my heart was thumping in my chest, the stairs were quickly racing towards me, and I swore that I heard voices above me.

Mickey and the others had to know that I was in trouble. They had to. Maybe I would burst out of the door at the top of the stairs and they would all be waiting there for me. The team all back together and I’d be a whole lot safer.

Except I didn’t really think I’d make it through that door. How many minutes had I been running from Baelfyre? Five? Maybe ten. It hadn’t been long at all, and yet to me it felt like I was in an entirely different day.

Somehow, I made it. My hand was on the knob and I threw it outward, stumbling into the back of the kitchen.

“Mickey!” I called out, shutting the door and rushing to grab one of the nearby chairs, pressing it up against the wood. But then I remembered how Baelfyre had burst through whole walls and realized how stupid that was.

Letting it drop, I ran out into the main part of the kitchen. Or at least where I thought it would be. I wasn’t very familiar with the back parts of the kitchen, which included the larder, the fridges, and the storage rooms. It wasn’t quite maze-like, but it wasn’t like there was just one door either.

I rushed through the first one I saw and definitely ended up in the larder. I did actually curse that time and went right out the door and then through another one.

…and I ended up in the gardens?

That was weird, but I would take it. I at least knew how to get out of there.

“Bronn!” I cried, hoping that somehow someone would hear me. But it was as if the entire manor was under some sort of thick blanket of hush, like a Sleeping Beauty level of oppression.

Wait… Was all of that a part of the elders’ plan? Would anybody be coming to save me? Was the only reason all of us were awake to cover mirrors because of my vision?

Well, that didn’t make sense. How would that drake and Allisandra have been up?

Those were all questions that could wait until later.

It didn’t take me long to get out of the garden, and I found the door that I knew would lead to a hallway that would in turn lead to the landing. I was almost there. Surely once I was inside, my friends would hear me and Baelfyre would finally flee. Sure, that wasn’t exactly what we wanted, but it was a whole lot better than me ending up gutted somewhere in the manor while everyone slept.

I thundered down the hall, breathless, but still calling out as loudly as I could.

“Mickey! Mal! Krisjian!”

I knew chances were unlikely that they could hear me, but I was sure that as soon as I got to the landing, they would be able to.

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