The Maid’s Diary by Loreth Anne White EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Loreth Anne White
- Language: English
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- Genre: Sisters Fiction
- Price: Free
- File Size: 2 MB
- Publish Date: March 1, 2023
HOW IT ENDS
Slowly, she slides between sleep and consciousness. A shard of cognition
slices through her—no, not sleep. Not in her bed. Not safe. Panic stirs.
Where is she? She tries to swallow, but her mouth is dry. There’s an
unfamiliar taste at the back of her throat. A sharper jolt of awareness cracks
through her. Blood—it’s the taste of blood. Her breathing quickens. She
tries to move her head but can’t. A rough, wet fabric covers her face. She’s
trapped, arms strapped tightly to her sides. She becomes aware of pain.
Overwhelming pain. In her shoulders. Ribs. Belly. Between her thighs. The
pain pounds inside her skull. Adrenaline surges into her veins and her eyes
flare open. But she can’t see. Panic licks through her brain. She opens her
mouth to scream, but it comes out muffled.
What is this? Where am I?
Focus, focus. Panic kills. You have to think. Try to remember.
But her brain is foggy. She strains for a thread of clarity, struggles to
focus on sensations. Cold—her feet are very cold. She wiggles her toes. She
feels air. Bare feet? No, just the one. She’s got a shoe on the other. She’s
injured. Badly, she thinks. A thick memory seeps into her sluggish brain—
fighting people off, being held down. Violently attacked—she has a sense
of that, of being overwhelmed, rendered powerless. Then wounded. Now
she’s wrapped in something and she’s in motion. Bumping. She can feel
vibrations. Is that the noise of an engine? A car? Yes, she’s in a vehicle of
some sort. She becomes aware of voices. In the front seat. She’s lying on
the back seat. The voices . . . they sound urgent—arguing. Underlying the
voices is soft music. A car radio. She’s definitely in a car . . . they’re taking
her somewhere.
She hears words. “Dump . . . her fault . . . asked for it. Can’t blame—”
She slides into the blackness again. This time it’s complete.
THE SILENT WITNESSES
October 31, 2019. Thursday.
It’s 11:57 p.m. Halloween night. Dark. A dense fog creeps along the water,
and a steady drizzle falls as a silver Mercedes-Maybach with two occupants
turns onto a muddy track that leads into an abandoned grain-storage site.
Rain glints as the headlights pan over the bases of the old silos. The sedan
crosses a railway track and bounces along a potholed road that parallels the
edge of the ocean inlet. The Mercedes comes to a stop in deep shadows
beneath a bridge that arcs over the inlet, linking the North Shore to the city
of Vancouver. The headlights go out. Everything is now black except the
glow of the fog-shrouded city across the water.
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