Taking by Blake Pierce

Author:Blake Pierce [Pierce, Blake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blake Pierce
Published: 2019-08-05T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Riley was stumbling along a dark trail. The dim light revealed tufts of rough brush encroaching on both sides of the narrow path. Huge figures with raised arms were silhouetted in the harsh moonlight.

Saguaro cactuses, she realized.

That meant she was somewhere in the desert.

She was worried because she’d never been out in the desert at night before, and she didn’t know her way …

Or even what I’m doing here.

With her next step, her foot struck something large and soft lying on the trail in front of her. She looked down and saw a woman’s dead body with terrified wide-open eyes, her flesh so pale that it seemed almost phosphorescent.

Riley’s heart sank with despair.

Crivaro and I are too late, she thought.

There’s been another murder.

She reached for a pocket flashlight to get a better look at the body. The beam fastened on the victim’s forearms, which were slashed wildly like some abstract painting, but no longer bleeding …

Because there’s no blood left in her.

Or was that true? A dark pool on the ground near the corpse seemed to be growing wider.

As Riley stooped down to look closely at the pool, she felt a stickiness under the soles of her shoes.

Her flashlight beam revealed that there was more blood on the ground and that she was standing in it and …

I’m bleeding! I’m bleeding badly!

She shone the flashlight on her left wrist and saw that she’d been slashed there over and over again. Her blood was flowing freely from the wounds, pouring out into the growing blotch in the desert soil.

When she rose to her feet, she almost fainted dead away. The flashlight fell from her hands, and the world suddenly got much, much darker.

She staggered wildly and flailed her arms.

Her hands struck against a hard surface.

She was surrounded by pitch blackness now, and couldn’t see anything at all. But as she turned about and reached in all directions, she discovered …

I’m shut in.

She’d been suddenly locked in some small space, a tiny room.

I’ve got to get out, she thought.

I’ve got to get out before I bleed to death.

She started pounding on the walls, screaming for help …

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