The Wolf Code by Angela Foxxe

The Wolf Code by Angela Foxxe

Author:Angela Foxxe [Foxxe, Angela]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-12-11T16:00:00+00:00


CHAPTER 12

Her head was pounding when she woke up in the darkness and tried to roll over. She reached up to touch her head, but her hands wouldn’t move, and her wrists screamed in agony as the fog cleared and her memory returned.

Kidnapped! Hannah thought suddenly, the fear slamming into her full force. The Sheriff had picked her up and brought her here. But why? What was she doing here, in the middle of nowhere on the floor of some old barn?

She moved her hands again, slowly this time. She could feel the ropes that bound her, their rough, frayed strands cutting into her delicate skin and making her itch. The knots were crude, and as Hannah moved around, she could feel them slacken depending on where she held her hands.

A door opened on the other end of the barn, and the click of boot heels on the bare cement floor echoed in the rafters. Quietly but as quickly as she could, Hannah rolled back onto her stomach and buried her face into the sweet stench of the fresh straw beneath her. Her nose twitched, but she looked up and found that the silly trick her daddy had taught her to avoid sneezing actually worked.

Struggling with terror as the man got closer to her, she forced herself to go limp and ignore the muscles in her arms that protested at having her weight on them again as they tingled painfully.

“I see you there,” a voice called out into the horse stall that Hannah was locked in.

There was a loud rap on the metal bars that made up the top half of the door, but Hannah somehow managed not to jump at the sudden sound. Still forcing herself to relax, she focused on her breathing.

In and out.

In and out.

There was a laugh behind her, and Hannah was certain that the man on the other side of the doorway was the Sheriff. She bit back the anger and held her ground, refusing to let him bait her into moving and revealing that she was indeed awake.

“You’re such a little thing; I think they gave you too much juice. That’s going to make your video spot impossible to make right now, but maybe that’s a good thing. The customers go into a frenzy when they have to wait for new product.”

There was a flash and a click as the Sheriff took a picture with his cell phone, then silence as he stood, watching her for a few minutes. Her skin crawled at the feel of his gaze on her bare shoulders, but she wasn’t going to move. She wouldn’t be making a video, and she wasn’t about to be sold to anyone. She wasn’t going to go down easy, and she would rather die fighting than let them make her into someone’s maid or worse.

News stories and cautionary tales flooded through her mind, but she pushed them away. She wasn’t going to panic, wasn’t going to call this what it was. She knew she was a victim of human trafficking, but she didn’t want to dwell on that.



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