The Buried by Lisa Childs

Author:Lisa Childs [Childs, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Zebra Books
Published: 2023-06-07T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

“Where the hell is she?” Bode muttered. Elijah had hired the nurse to be available 24-7, but the med center was dark and empty when he unlocked the door and helped Mae over the threshold. He’d wanted to carry her there, but she’d insisted she was fine.

She wasn’t.

She was still bleeding.

He walked over to the stainless-steel cabinets and pulled open doors and drawers, looking for bandages and antiseptic. “You need stitches,” he said of the deep cuts on her fingertips.

She was trying to juggle her cell in one hand while blood dripped from her hands.

What the hell had happened in that dark room?

And where the hell had the attacker gone?

Wouldn’t he have noticed if someone had passed him to run out into the hall? Or if they’d gone outside through the patio doors, wouldn’t he have heard them? Or the blast of the blizzard raging outside?

Mae should have called the sheriff, but instead she was talking to Bruce, asking him to run through all his security footage around the conservatory while she waited on her phone. He claimed he’d seen nothing. She was the only one who’d gone down the hall until Bode.

She glanced at him, that look of suspicion back in her dark blue eyes.

“Ask him,” Bode said. “Ask him when he saw me.”

With her cell on speaker, Bruce heard him. “Bode didn’t come down the hall until a good twenty to thirty minutes after you entered the room and shut the doors.”

“I didn’t shut the doors,” she murmured, and her face went deathly pale beneath the smears of dirt and blood. “You need to pull up that footage again, enhance it, see if you can get a clearer visual of who really shut those doors.”

“We need to call the sheriff,” Bode said, but his stomach lurched with dread. He didn’t want Deacon here. He wanted him at the boardinghouse with Adelaide, wanted him to keep Bode’s daughter safe because he couldn’t. The people around him just kept getting hurt or worse.

Maybe Elijah was right. Maybe they were cursed. Maybe the whole damn island was.

“I will call him when we know more,” Mae said, to both him and Bruce. “Call me if you find anything on that footage.” That was to Bruce.

Who responded, “I’ll check it, and I’ll have guards search around outside the conservatory, see if they can find any evidence that anyone left through the patio doors. We need to get more cameras.”

“We will,” Bode assured him. He and Elijah had set up the hall as a safe retreat for their guests, so the security had been designed to keep people out of the property, with most of the cameras set up at the gates and outside the lobby. But after the horrible things that had happened there recently, they had started adding more. Just not enough.

“Don’t call the sheriff,” Mae said again before she disconnected the call with her thumb while her other fingers still oozed blood.

“Why not?” Bode asked. He knew why he didn’t

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