Don't Let Her Go: An absolutely unputdownable, heart-pounding and twisty mystery and suspense thriller (Detective Billie Ann Wilde Book 1) by Willow Rose

Author:Willow Rose [Rose, Willow]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2024-02-02T00:00:00+00:00

FORTY-ONE

Then

Kitty woke up from a deep sleep, her head pounding and her chest heaving. The only sound was the faint thumping of her heart and the scratching of a branch against the walls on the outside of the metal shed. It was hot inside of it, almost unbearably so, and she was sweating heavily, her hair falling into her face, soaked.

Kitty heard a loud clank and the door to her room creaked open, flooding the small space with sunlight. She bolted upright in her bed, expecting to see Officer Damian and his piercing blue eyes staring down at her, as she had been accustomed to over these past many weeks, or was it maybe even months? She no longer knew. She couldn’t keep track. The only thing she knew was that he would come to her at least once a day, bringing food, and they would talk. Sometimes he would kiss her and hold her and tell her she shouldn’t be afraid. Other times he would slap her across the face and yell at her for making him do this to her, making him keep her like this.

“Why do you have to make me love you?” he had yelled often.

She didn’t know how to answer that, and all she could do was cry. She had gotten no further in planning her escape. She was still strapped to the bed, only untied when she was eating, and going to the bathroom. She couldn’t even examine the door to see if there was any way of opening it from the inside. And even if she did succeed, and made it to the outside, then there were the dogs she had to worry about. She had never seen them, but pictured them sitting out there, in front of the door, waiting for her, drooling, showing their sharp teeth as they growled at the door.

It was terrifying.

A shadowy figure appeared in the doorway. Kitty gasped lightly, thinking it was him again, that he was coming for her, and then instantly wondering what mood he would be in. Usually, she could tell by the look in his eyes the moment he stepped inside. But much to her surprise, this wasn’t him.

It was his wife.

Linda stepped inside, carrying a tray with a glass of chocolate milk and a pink teddy bear sitting next to it, leaning on its side. Kitty recognized her from the first day she had come to the house, and she braced herself for the worst. Why was she here? What did she want? Had she come to hurt her?

But instead of aggression, the woman looked sad.

She sat down on the edge of the bed, like Damian usually did. She put the tray down and untied Kitty’s hands, then handed her the glass of chocolate milk. Kitty grabbed it and drank it greedily. She was enjoying something she hadn’t had in a long time. So far, she had been living off nothing but burgers and fries and sodas, and barely enough of it to keep her alive.

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