The Hall of Shadows (Morgan's Rock Book 2) by M.L. Bullock

Author:M.L. Bullock [Bullock, M.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2019-01-24T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Present Day

With an urgency I’d rarely experienced, I blazed through the kitchen and hurried into the pantry. I flipped the switch and glanced around the room. It wasn’t exactly as I remembered it in my dream—no, make that vision—but I could clearly see the back wall. There was no wine rack there now. That had been replaced with rickety metal shelves that were thankfully half empty. I set the knife down, slid the boxes of canned goods across the floor and tugged at the shelves. They weren’t connected to the wall in any way and came loose easily enough.

But that wasn’t the problem. The problem was the wall had been plastered. No doubt there had been an entrance there; why else would she have shown me that? She must be trapped down there. Is that what happened to you, Joanna? I sobbed as I slapped my hands against the unpainted Sheetrock. Who would do this to you? Vivian? Danny?

With my back against the wall, I glanced around the room. There had to be a way to tear this wall down. There were no tools in the pantry, but I was pretty sure there would be some in the storage building out back. What would I need? Probably a sledgehammer or at least some kind of hammer.

I raced back to my room and shed my pajamas, trading them in for blue jeans and one of my oldest t-shirts. I tied my wild blond hair up in a ponytail, slid on my shoes and headed outside to find something. I had to get into the hidden room. Joanna needed me to find her. She needed me!

Without thinking it through, without counting the costs, I searched for a sledgehammer. There were dozens of tools out here but no sledgehammer. I did find an ax, though. I reached for it and tugged it free from the tool rack. It was a heavy thing but not too heavy for me. I could do this. I had to get to the truth.

“Hey, what are you doing?”

“Crap, Alex! You scared the hell out of me. Don’t you know it’s dangerous to scare a woman while she’s holding an ax?” I patted my chest and tried to catch my breath. How did he get the drop on me like that? Not like me at all.

“What are you doing with that?”

“I’m not chopping up the neighbors if that’s what you’re thinking. I’m doing some…renovations.”

“Renovations? Since when do you do those? Don’t you have a chapter to finish? A book to finish? Please put the ax down, Joanna.”

I paused for a second and let that sink in. Alex just called me Joanna. Should I call him on that? Should I say something about it? What should I do? Well, I wasn’t going to change my mind. I had an ax in my hands, and that wall was coming down.

“I’m not putting the ax down. I have a wall to take down. You can help me, or you can go back to your hotel.

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