Protector Bear by Raines Harmony

Author:Raines, Harmony
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Published: 2019-03-27T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen – Cynthia

Opening up the trapdoor was one of the hardest things she’d ever done. What if the men had come back here and hunted down the children? What if when she opened the door, she was met with the sight of Joey and Horatio dead?

How would she find the words to tell Michaela she’d failed?

“Death has a strong smell. An unmistakable smell,” Hunter told her gently. “We can’t smell death.”

She nodded, reached down for the bolt keeping the trapdoor locked and pulled it back. Then she yanked up the trapdoor and covered her mouth as the stench hit her. “Still not death?”

“Still not death,” Hunter assured her.

“Good to know.” Cynthia’s hand trembled as she placed it on the handrail and reached for the light, which was just inside the door. In an instant, the darkness was illuminated, and she could see each of the twenty wooden steps that led down into the cellar.

“It’s okay, just act naturally as you go down, but look for the camera, it should be somewhere on your right.” Hunter placed his hand on her back, sending his strength into her. It helped. In a small way, it was comforting to know he was there. That he would always be there.

She took a deep breath and stifled a sob, not wanting to show her weakness. Not that she was hiding it from the men who were with her, more that she was hiding it from whoever might be watching. “I’ll let you know what I see.”

They had concluded that only images were being captured by the camera, no sound. She would be free to talk, and she was also going to film the whole thing because that was what she would naturally do. This feedback would give them something to work with.

Hopefully. It was all unknown. All she knew for certain was this was the place she had to be. This was where she was being lured to and this was where the threat must end. She didn’t let herself worry about whether the children were out there in the forest. They would deal with that afterward.

“There’s nothing to see, only the steps,” Cynthia said as she walked down the wooden steps carefully. They had been reinforced and repaired, unlike the rest of the house, but they still didn’t feel safe. “I’m about to look to my right, I think this is about level with where the camera goes under the floorboards.”

She was approximately halfway down the stairs, she could see the cells below, but couldn’t tell if they were all empty. As she swung her head slowly to the right, she aimed her phone in that direction, too, sweeping it in a wide arc as she turned away from the camera, which she had seen in the corner of her eye.

“It’s there. There’s no sign that it’s recording.” She kept going down the stairs, forcing herself each step of the way.

“We have to assume it is recording and anyone watching will be alerted to you being here,” Guy said.

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