Chapter 12 : 2:50
So I did tell him. I told him everything. I'm not sure if he believed me, but he seemed to be listening. Finally, when I finished, he said, "That all makes sense to me, but I'm not a judge. We'll have...
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Chris, of course, backed away. "Thank you," I said. My arm was in a huge amount of pain, but I couldn't feel my legs anymore. The doctor part of me said this was bad, but the rest of me said it was...
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As long as I had known Chris, he had always liked to shoot. So, he was good at hitting what he aimed at, but not even he could hit a target just by raising his gun and pulling the trigger. The bullet...
View ArticleChapter 9 : 1:00
He had made a mistake. Christopher had made a mistake. When John had opened the door, he had unlocked only his own. So Christopher's fingers pulled uselessly on the handle. I had an idea. Before Chris...
View ArticleChapter 8 : 12:47
It hadn't taken John very long at all to get a car. Even if it seemed like forever for me, sitting alone in the interrogation room. While I directed him to way Chris lay, probably dead, we talked. We...
View ArticleChapter 7 : 12:00
I awoke to the clanging of metal bars being slid open. I lifted my droopy eyes to see the man who had arrested me, gesturing for me to come with him. I stood up slowly, blinking to try to unblur my...
View ArticleChapter 6 : 8:52
And I slammed on the brakes. He flew forward and through the windshield. He lay there, very still. I backed up and drove around him, speeding up every second. I didn't slow down at all until I realized...
View ArticleChapter 5 : 8:03
I could think of nothing else, but to get as far away from the explosion and Chris as possible. Now that he had a car and I didn't, there was no way I could go back onto the road. I just hoped that the...
View ArticleChapter 4 : 7:25
I don't know if you know this, but rattlesnakes can be extremely poisonous. Like, die within an hour of being bitten poisonous. However, if you didn't provoke them, they didn't commenly bite people....
View ArticleChapter 3 : 7:15
There lay the girl on the floor, her throat slit. Her mouth was still wide in an "O" ready to scream. In her eyes were fear. It was terrible, yet I couldn't look away. I heard the bell on the gas...
View ArticleChapter 2 : 7:00
I had been driving since I got the call. I was getting tired, but I didn't have a clue what to do. Stop at a hotel: What if he was following me and caught up? Contact the police: What if they didn't...
View ArticleChapter 1 : 6:00
I was on my was on my way to my country home from work. I could hardly stand this half-hour drive. It ment I had to wait a half-hour before I could see my darling Christopher. I was just about there...
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