Warrior's Embrace
“Elizabeth McCade knelt in her business suit and high-heel shoes to investigate. In the light from the fluorescent bulbs, the spot glowed darkly against the tiles.
“It can’t possibly be blood,” she told herself. “I’m so tired from working such late hours, my mind is playing tricks.”
Nevertheless she dipped one finger into the spot and inspected it carefully. A shiver ran through her. The red substance was definitely blood.
Elizabeth stood up quietly and carefully, drawing her suit jacket around ...her as if the ancient air conditioner in her kitchen window was suddenly blasting arctic air.
She pulled off her shoes and walked in stocking feet to the pantry where she kept a flashlight. The most logical place for an intruder to hide was the cellar, and the lights had long since burned out down there. Arming herself, she started toward the cellar, then changed her mind and searched the rest of her house first.
Outside her windows the wind picked up, moaning around the gables and whistling through the lattices.MoreLess
“It can’t possibly be blood,” she told herself. “I’m so tired from working such late hours, my mind is playing tricks.”
Nevertheless she dipped one finger into the spot and inspected it carefully. A shiver ran through her. The red substance was definitely blood.
Elizabeth stood up quietly and carefully, drawing her suit jacket around ...her as if the ancient air conditioner in her kitchen window was suddenly blasting arctic air.
She pulled off her shoes and walked in stocking feet to the pantry where she kept a flashlight. The most logical place for an intruder to hide was the cellar, and the lights had long since burned out down there. Arming herself, she started toward the cellar, then changed her mind and searched the rest of her house first.
Outside her windows the wind picked up, moaning around the gables and whistling through the lattices.MoreLess
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