Run For Your Life by C. M. Sutter

Author:C. M. Sutter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: C. M. Sutter
Published: 2022-01-18T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 28

Running and tripping through the soggy marsh grass was exhausting. Marie hadn’t eaten anything since Friday morning and survived only on the several bottles of water she’d been allowed to drink during her abduction. Her legs felt like limp noodles as she stumbled through the long grasses that wrapped around her ankles like ropes and pulled her to the ground. In the dark, she couldn’t see where she was going or if danger or help were ahead. She cried as she trudged on.

Why couldn’t I have come out onto a highway?

The place where they were being held was about as remote as possible.

I should have headed for the road. Marlon had to have come from somewhere.

As she second-guessed herself, she looked back in the direction she’d come from. Was it directly behind her, or had she stumbled around in circles? Marie wasn’t sure anymore and continued forward. She had no idea whether she was heading deeper into the coastal low country with areas of marshland and saltwater rivers and creeks. She was far from Savannah and even farther from home. That much, she knew. She needed to get to dry ground, but she didn’t know which way that was.

Marie wondered if Devon would be punished for her escape and prayed that he wouldn’t be. Without his encouragement to act, she would still be in her own barrel of hell and would have likely died. And who was the Liza woman Devon spoke of? Marie asked God to help her find someone she could trust, someone who had a phone, but her fear of Marlon nearly paralyzed her. Since she hadn’t seen his face, he could be anywhere or anyone. And she would have no idea whether some helpful person she came across was actually friend or foe.

She searched for lights to her left, right, and straight ahead but saw nothing, and the area behind her was as black as ink too. Although her energy was fading fast, she had to continue on. Marie sat on the marsh grass, breathed in the crisp night air, and looked up at the sky. She closed her eyes.

I just need a few minutes to rest.

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