No Secrets by David Jackson

Author:David Jackson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Profile
Published: 2022-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

She came to, her head pulsating. She brought up a hand and found warm, sticky wetness on her scalp. She wondered where she was, what had happened. She had been walking to her car …

This wasn’t the street. There were no sounds, no lights.

‘Hello?’ she called. ‘Hello?’ Her words echoed in the blackness.

She sat up, and her skull felt ready to explode. She wanted to vomit.

‘Hello? Is anyone here? I need help.’

It was cold here, so cold. And yet not a whisper of a breeze.

A click. A brief spark of light. Then another click and the fire took hold. A lighter. It was brought to a candle and its glow reached out to her.

Her confusion multiplied. Four walls and a floor that seemed to slope at a ridiculous angle. What kind of room—?

Wait. Not a room. A swimming pool. She was at the bottom of an empty swimming pool.

Click. A new flame. More light. Why these candles?

‘Hey!’ she called out. ‘What’s going on? Why have you brought me here?’

As she turned to follow the figure moving to the next candle, she slid her hand across the bottom of the pool. Her fingers found something. She picked it up, held it close to her face to scrutinise it in the gloom.

It was a false fingernail, decorated with a red rose.

That was when the panic took over and she started screaming.

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