In The Valley Of Shadows by Kat Smith

Author:Kat Smith [Smith, Kat]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: series, Romance Suspense, police
Published: 2019-03-28T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Devan still didn’t quite understand how she’d survived the fall. Her skin had been ripped and torn as she fell through the thick stand of prickly spruce trees. The flexible limbs had bowed and given way as she fell, dumping her onto the next level down. She’d tumbled and twisted as she fell and bounced off the limbs until her vest snagged on a broken branch.

She’d swung twenty feet in the air and bit back the agonizing pain when the lone rebel had walked directly beneath her and knelt, waiting for the police to leave. She knew if a single drop of blood dripped on him, she’d be an easy kill. She bit a gash in her lip to stop from screaming and rammed her finger into the bullet wound on her leg to plug the river of blood.

After the rebel had gone and the neighborhood fell quiet, Devan twisted until the branch released its hold on her vest and she dropped with a reverberating thud to the ground. The forest floor, made soft from decades of decaying foliage and recent rain, was her saving grace and eased her fall, but she’d still broken her leg. The pain had torn through her like a saber, and she passed out on the wet soggy forest floor.

When she woke, daylight filtered through the trees. It had taken hours, but she’d managed to pull herself to the back edge of the fence and waited until Teona left for work. She forced the pain away and scaled the fence, saw her own dried blood smeared on the concrete blocks from the night before, and finally made it inside the house. She’d only been in the bedroom for about an hour or so before Teona came home.

She must have passed out earlier when the woman entered because when Devan opened her eyes, she was naked with only a sheet covering her battered and torn body. The dark-eyed woman was focused and gently cleaning the bullet wound on her leg. “I don’t remember your name.”

Teona looked up casually as if the sight of someone in her house with a gunshot wound was a daily occurrence. “Teona.” She turned her attention back to Devan’s leg. Devan jerked when she cut away a flap of dead skin. “You no move.”

Devan winced and felt the gash in her lip split open. Dirt and blood had mixed to create a crusty plug that had stopped the bleeding in her leg. Otherwise, someone would have found her rotting body amongst the trees in a few days. She tried to lift her head. “How bad?”

The nurse remained focused on the wound. “Broken arm, ribs, leg. Leg is very bad.”

“Where are my clothes?”

“Burned clothes. Too dangerous.” She tipped her head to the dresser in the corner. “Clean clothes.”

Devan twisted her head and looked around the room. She felt a panic rise. “Where are my weapons?”

“Under bed.” She glanced up. “In my house.” She resumed dressing the wounds. “How you were wounded?”

Devan draped her good arm over her head.

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