Already Taken by Blake Pierce

Author:Blake Pierce [Pierce, Blake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blake Pierce
Published: 2022-05-06T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

Laura didn’t know what she had been dreaming about before, what she had done to trigger it, but there it was.

The three farmers, standing around, talking just like they always did. Calm. Not a care in the world, except maybe for their crops. Serious in that old-fashioned way, unsmiling, but not hostile. Working men with workworn hands and sun-faded clothes.

And then one of them was turning and screaming, and starting to run.

Laura half-expected things to end there, for this to be more of a recollection than a vision, a simple replay of what she had seen before. But this time she looked up again, past the man who ran and screamed, up to the two he had been with.

She saw them, too, look over their shoulders. She saw them realize what their companion had seen, their eyes going wide, their mouths falling slack with fear. She saw them turn and run, turn and chase after the first, throwing down whatever they had been holding in an effort to gain as much speed as possible. Running for their lives.

They had to be.

There was no other way to explain it—the sheer panic. They weren’t running to something, the way they might go to put out a fire or save a drowning child. They were running from it, and they were terrified. Whatever it was, it was serious enough to make them think they would die if they didn’t run.

Laura watched, straining, wishing as she always did that she could somehow control these visions. Like lucid dreaming. If she could only turn the “camera” around, making it look further afield, get the chance to see what was in the distance—what they were running from…

The three farmers passed out of her vision. Whatever was coming after them had to be appearing next. All she had to do was wait and she would see—

Laura’s eyes snapped open on the ceiling of her room at the inn, the blaring alarm next to her not allowing her to drop back into sleep. She cursed under her breath and swiped a hand across at her phone to switch the alarm off.

She’d been so close.

She still wasn’t quite convinced whether she had seen a real, bona fide vision or just a dream rehashing what she already knew, but whatever it was, it gave her equal parts frustration and hope. Frustration that she hadn’t been able to see enough, yet again. Hope that this meant there was a chance she would see more, if she could just find a way to trigger it.

Laura sat up straight, realizing the alarm hadn’t stopped. A glance at the screen showed her why: it wasn’t an alarm going off at all. It was a call. She fumbled for it and answered, shoving the cell against her ear and trying to be more awake.

“Special Agent Laura Frost.”

“Hi, Agent Frost, this is Sheriff Ramsgate,” he said, his voice a dry crackle in the dim light of the room. She could see light coming from around the edges of the shutters.

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