The Perfect Escape by Daniel Hurst

Author:Daniel Hurst [Hurst, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-07-14T23:00:00+00:00

17

FAY

‘What are you doing?’

That’s a good question and while it was just asked by the woman tied up behind me, it’s one I am also asking myself. That’s because I’ve gone and picked up the knife again and while I am just holding it at the moment, I haven’t decided what I am going to do next.

‘I’m thinking,’ I reply because that much is true.

‘Thinking? What is there to think about? You just need to untie me so we can get out of here together!’

‘Sssshhh,’ I say, although that seems a little unlikely to work now that I’ve removed the mouth gag, and sure enough, I’m right.

‘Hey! Come on! We’re on the same side here! Let’s help each other!’ the woman I’m supposed to kill tells me, and I want to shut her up somehow, but as I approach with the knife, she starts to panic, presuming this is the end for her.

‘Get away from me! No, don’t do it!’ she cries until I put the knife down again and tell her I’m not going to stab her, at least not yet anyway, though I don’t mention that last part.

‘Calm down. I just need you to be quiet because I need to think and you’re distracting me,’ I say, but that seems to be the green light for this woman to try and confuse me even more because she suddenly starts rambling about everything.

‘My name is Holly! I am twenty-eight, and I work as a nurse at Charring Hospital! My mum and dad’s names are Ida and Glenn, and I have two brothers, Max and Charlie! We spend every Christmas together, and Charlie is due to get married next year!’

‘Why the hell are you telling me this?’ I ask, but I already know the answer. Holly, as I now know she is called, is aware that the more I know about her, the harder it will be for me to kill her, so that’s why I’m getting the whole spiel about her family.

‘Max has a dog called Baxter, and he got sick once when he was small. I was looking after him that day, so I took him to the vets and sat with him all day until they fixed his leg and he was allowed to go home. I thought he was going to die, but he was okay, and now he’s old, but he’s still just as adorable.’

‘Shut up!’

‘No, I will not! I have a family who loves me, and they want to see me again! I have friends too! My best friend is called Kelly, and we met in primary school. We’ve been best friends ever since, and she lives around the corner from me! She’s getting married soon as well, and I’m the chief bridesmaid! I was organizing things for her hen party before I came here. We’re going to Barcelona! There’s twelve of us, including her mum, who is called Pamela and is like a second mother to me!’

I reach out for the gag and

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