My Everything by Julia Rachel Barrett

Author:Julia Rachel Barrett
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance, Suspense, Contemporary, (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯), Adult
ISBN: 9781600885143
Publisher: Cobblestone Press
Published: 2010-02-01T00:00:00+00:00

Now he’d shut her in a closet in the basement. There was no knob on the inside of the door. That was the first thing her hands felt for when she’d heard him flip some kind of lock outside the door. She’d listened to his footsteps fade away, dread filling her chest like a helium balloon.

He’d never left her this long before. Angel stared into the blackness, imagining the worst. If he didn’t come back, she would die of slow starvation and her family would never know what had happened to her. She didn’t want to die. It wasn’t fair. None of this was fair.

Angel stood up and checked the door as she had repeatedly since he left. Nothing had changed. She was still locked in. She pounded on the wood, listening for a sound that might indicate a weakness, a loose board, anything at all. The door seemed solid, but it made a sort of hollow sound. She wondered if it was a composite. Not that it mattered. She wasn’t going to dig herself out regardless.

Angel felt wet tears on her cheeks. She might as well be buried alive.

With a scream she kicked at the door as hard as she could. Her heel connected with something sharp.

Angel yelped with pain. She hopped up and down on one foot. One of her tennis shoes flipped off.

My tennis shoes?

Yes, the tennis shoes with her emergency house key under the insole. She was always losing her house key so her mother insisted she carry a second key where she wouldn’t lose it. She dropped to her knees and felt around for her shoe. She found it, removed the insole from the shoe and grasped the key, holding onto it for dear life.

Angel reached first for the place where the doorknob should be. She felt around carefully, using only the sensitive pads of her fingertips. There was a flat metal plate bolted over the door. It would take more than a house key to get that off.

She checked the hinges next. She found two, one at the bottom of the door and another at the top. The metal felt smooth. She wondered if the hinges and door were new, if he’d installed the door with her in mind.

She remembered now, when he’d shoved her into the closet the door had opened inward. If he had installed the door just for her then he’d done a half-assed job.

Angel felt for the screws holding the hinges in place. Her key was a little wide, but when she tilted it the right way, she got some traction, just enough to loosen a couple of the screws.

She reached into her pockets. Most of the money she’d taken to the lake was in her purse, but she remembered pocketing some change when she’d bought sodas at the local deli.

Which coin did people use in the movies to unscrew things, a dime? She felt around in her pocket. She identified a couple of quarters, maybe a nickel, a few pennies and one thin dime.

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