White Silence by Jodi Taylor

Author:Jodi Taylor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Accent Press
Published: 2017-09-07T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

I never would have thought that this could happen to me. That I could be attacked and never see it coming. All my life I’d known when things meant me harm and this time – the time it really mattered – I’d sensed nothing. The Widow had got me and I never saw it coming. I felt Jones beside me. I could hear the rustle of his clothes as he pulled my hands away. ‘Cage. Let me see.’

I was panicking. ‘She’s blinded me. I can’t see. I can’t see anything at all.’

He held my hands in a crushing grip. ‘Cage, stop. I’m here. Listen to me. I’m here. Stay as still and quiet as you can. Alex has … had an accident. I have to see to him. Stay still and don’t touch your face.’

‘You don’t understand. I can’t see. I can’t see anything.’

‘I do understand, but I have to see to Alex. Stay calm for me, Cage.’

I heard him move away. I sat in the dark, gripping my hands together so I wouldn’t touch my face. And because I was shaking violently with shock and cold and pain. The last thing I remembered was that arm – reaching out of the dark. Reaching out for me.

Unable to bear it any longer, I called out, ‘What’s happening? Tell me.’

Helene replied from quite close by. She must still be with Leo at the top of the stairs. ‘It was The Widow. I saw her. She pushed me. I would have fallen if Mr Jones had not caught me. And then she threw Alex down the stairs.’

‘Oh my God. Is he all right?’

I could hear the hysteria in her voice. ‘I think he has hurt his leg.’

‘Broken?’

It was Jones who replied from far away at the bottom of the stairs. ‘No, I don’t think so, but he can’t walk.’

Helene’s voice was pitched high with fear. ‘What shall we do? Even if you take Alex and I take Leo, who will help Mrs Jones? And where is Thomas? Oh dear God, what is happening?’

Jones was calm and reassuring. ‘Is there anywhere near here where you can lock yourselves in? Somewhere with a bolt?’

‘A bolt? Wait – yes. Yes, I think so. Just down these stairs and around the corner.’

‘Right. Come down here and stay with Alex. Don’t leave him for even a second.’

‘What about Leo? He won’t wake up. What did she do to him?’ Her voice trembled on the edge of panic again.

‘Leo is perfectly safe, I promise you. Cage, you stay put – I’m coming for Leo and then for you. How’s your face?’

‘On fire. I still can’t see. What did she do to me?’

I could hear him climbing the stairs. When he next spoke, he was close by. ‘I’ll tell you in a minute. Wait here.’

‘No,’ I said, panicking at the thought of being left alone with whatever was here in the dark with us. ‘I’ll shuffle down on my bottom behind you.’

‘Sure?’

Anything was better than being alone. I nodded.

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