A Nurse for Mitch by Marie Higgins

Author:Marie Higgins [Higgins, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-18T05:00:00+00:00

SEVEN

Mitch tossed and turned fitfully in his bed. He was having another one of those strange and unexplainable nightmares. But this one was different. He was in a building and it was dark. His breathing was heavy as panic surged through him. Someone was after him, and he tried to hide. Others were also in the room, but he couldn’t see them, only feel them. The doors to the building flew open and five men with rifles ran into the room. His heart sank. This was the end of his life. How could he escape now?

Everything seemed to happen in slow motion. The men holding guns began shouting and shooting at people. Mitch and the others had to run for their lives. Some of the others around him were shot. He heard their cries of death. He wanted to stop and help, but feared that if he didn’t find a way out of the building, he’d be killed himself.

Up ahead, there was an opening as the light from outside spilled into the building. He ran as fast as he could toward freedom, but suddenly he felt a sharp pain in his shoulder, quickly burning through him. He’d been shot and his strength was being sapped from him. All around him, the cries of the others grew silent.

Mitch made it out of the building and ran through the thicket of trees. Their branches scratched his face and tore at his clothes, but he kept on going. He didn’t dare stop to see if the men with guns were behind him.

Ahead of him on the ground was a fallen log. As he tried to jump over it, his foot stubbed on the log and he stumbled. He fell to the ground and rolled. His head struck a boulder and he blacked out. When he gained consciousness again, three men stood before him, each holding a rifle pointed toward him.

As the faces came into view, it was Lydia’s cousins, Thad and Luke, who Mitch had seen from a distance. The third man was their friend, Jess Olsen. Jess spoke angrily.

“You’re a blue-belly Yankee! You don’t deserve to live!”

Thad laughed and shoved the point of his rifle against Mitch’s head. “You paid another man to fight the war in your place.”

Luke’s expression hardened and turned red. “I saw you kissing Lydia, and we’ll not tolerate a Yankee deserter touching our cousin.”

Frightened, Mitch scrambled to get away, but a gunshot from one of the rifles struck his left shoulder. Pain seared through him and he fell flat on his face.

Mitch bolted straight up in bed, his body was covered in sweat. Although it was a dream, his heartbeat still hammered in fear as if it had just happened. His head pounded like the blast from a cannon, making the dream seem so real. It took him awhile before his body finally stopped shaking and the feeling of fear to leave his system.

Why was he having these dreams? Did it have something to do with his

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