Wraith by Joy Blood

Author:Joy Blood [Blood, Joy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-03-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Eight

It took me days to get my eyes adjusted to the light. I didn’t even chance leaving the apartment because I couldn’t see. Instead, I took advantage of the food in the refrigerator and the cupboards, being sure to leave enough so it didn’t seem as if I were eating him out of house and home. Not that he would care, I rarely saw him. Each day I would wake to the apartment door slamming shut. Each night I would fall asleep after I heard him come back through the door. He was avoiding me. I’m not stupid, nor did I care. I had more important things to worry about. Like how I was going to get out of here. Now that I am no longer locked underground in a room with no way out, I’m going to take advantage of that, too. I just need to regain control of my eyes before I can.

With each trip to and from the laundry room, I watch the routines of the guards out of the corner of my eye the. I take different trips, being sure to clock them every hour of every day. It took me a while to figure out their patterns since I could only appear to be doing my job. But now at exactly five thirty, nearly three weeks after being brought up from underground, I take my chance and slip out of the apartment and down the steps toward the break in the shift. It’s meal time and right now everyone is heading to the mess hall—which I learned is right next to the apartment complex—so I have only seven minutes before the replacement guards who ate at five to get there. It’s still light outside but the sun is starting to set, making it that much harder to see, but for me it’s a godsend. The darkness is my ally. The more straining it is on their eyes, the better chance I have at getting this right.

Step by step I make my way past the buildings, counting in my head the seconds as they turn into minutes. With the fence I need to climb in sight, I start walking faster, ready to get a jump start at climbing when a voice jolts my body and sends chills down my spine. “You don’t want to do that.” The husky sound isn’t new to me.

“Please. I just want to go home,” I whimper, knowing already I more than likely have no home to go to. My dad is dead.

“No going back now. Come on,” he gestures with his hand for me to follow, “hurry up before someone sees you and I have to punish you,” he tells me before walking back the way I came, not waiting to see if I will follow. For a moment, I don’t. I almost speed up my process to climb the fence but the noise of the replacement guards assaults my ears and I whip around to follow close behind my owner.

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