Blood Deep by Lindsay J. Pryor

Author:Lindsay J. Pryor
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Paranormal, Fiction, Romance, Fantasy, Gothic, Supernatural
ISBN: 9781909490697
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2014-10-24T00:00:00+00:00

21

Jessie glanced through the doorway into the lounge.

Tatum was sprawled out on the sofa, her legs stretched up onto the cushioned back, one crossed over the other, the satin sheen of her skin-tight trousers catching the weak light, one arm casually flopped on the table of drinks beside her. She was on her back, her head to the door, so she couldn’t see Jessie.

But Dice did. Dice who was sat in his usual seat. Pummel always left someone behind to keep an eye on the place. Tonight it was Dice.

He’d been mid-conversation, mid-laugh, when he’d looked across at her peering through the doorway. His eyes had always chilled her – the eyes of the killer that he was. He liked his victims young, he liked them female and, as his name dictated, he made a joke of choosing their fate by a roll of dots. Unfortunately his handsome, youthful features and bright blue eyes often lured them in.

He’d been there six years. He’d barely spoken to her. But he’d never needed to – his glances in her direction having spoken more than enough. And those looks had sickened her to the pit of her stomach.

She glanced towards the kitchen wondering if she should wait a bit longer, but knew Pummel and the others could be back at any time.

She padded silently down the hallway, leaving the door ajar behind her as she hurried across to the larder. She placed her key in the lock, turned the handle and slipped inside. Darkness crept into the small space as she closed the door behind her, lit only by the line of weak light beneath the door. She fell to her knees instantly, her hands trembling as she fiddled with the locks. One came off with relative ease, as did the second, but the third jammed at every opportunity.

Eventually it clicked free. She unhooked them all, keeping a hold on them as she carefully lifted the trapdoor. A cold and silent abyss leered back, revealing nothing but the top of the slatted, wooden steps.

She stepped onto the top one, hesitating a moment longer before descending the first few.

Closing the door behind her, the locks still clenched in her hand, she descended the rest.

Reaching the bottom step, she left the locks there as she gave her eyes a chance to adjust to night vision.

There was no movement, not a sound.

She stepped deeper into the room as darkness was replaced with the shadowed outlines of wire-mesh bed bases, discarded furniture and storage boxes. Bricked walls loomed behind, to her right and in front. Heading right, in the direction of the part she knew the stairs sat above, she passed through a knocked-through wall. And froze.

There was movement in the distance. A shuffle. She could hear breathing, and not just from one source.

Jessie stood perfectly still, staring ahead. Swallowing back her fear, she stepped around some crates to face the floor-to-ceiling cage.

She snatched back a breath, but she was no more startled than the nine pairs of glinting eyes that stared back from beyond the bars.

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