Alphas of Pandora, page 35
White_night00: still there
White_night00: everything okay?
Sophia heard a scraping sound outside of her bedroom door. It sounded different, not like the settling of the floorboards or a shift in the wind. The clock next to her on the desk glowed the time. It had barely been two hours since Magda and her father left for the fundraising dinner. No way would they be back already.
Outside, the sun had already begun to set. She looked out the second-story window to the deserted garden below where the trees cast shifting shadows on the leaf-strewn ground. Was it just the wind whipping through the trees or was there someone moving out there?
The silence felt suddenly ominous. Her bedroom door was closed and she got up to lock it even as she tried to convince herself that she was being ridiculous.
Another creak came from the direction of the hallway and this one sounded closer. She wasn’t imagining things.
MadHacker95: I think there’s someone in my house.
She waited while the little icon spun to let her know that he was typing. Her heart pounded painfully hard in her chest. There was no real reason for her to be scared like this, not just from some strange noises. It was completely nonsensical. And yet, she still felt a terrible sense of dread looming over her. And her intuition was never wrong.
Her body acted as if it knew she was in danger.
White_night00: SERIOUSLY!? Can you get out or call 911?
She swallowed a curse. Her phone was still sitting on the counter in the bathroom down the hall because she’d wanted to listen to music in the shower.
White_night00: tell me where you are and I’ll call the cops!
But she still hesitated. There was still a chance that she was completely overreacting. She could only imagine her father’s face if he came home to find the house surrounded by cops.
Her smart watch sat next to the computer where she’d left it to charge. She picked it up with the intent of strapping it to her wrist but hesitated. Trusting the sudden impulse, she shoved it down into her sock so it was trapped inside of her shoe.
Sophia sat there frozen for several minutes, ignoring frantic messages from White_night00. Every sense she possessed was primed for any hint of sound or movement. Gathering her nerve, she slowly approached the door again and pressed her ear to the wood.
But the silence on the other side mocked her.
She forced herself to relax by tiny degrees but kept attuned for any other sounds. The air conditioner whirred on, startling her. Maybe she was just going crazy, but she was definitely not opening the door until her father got home.
Without warning, strong arms wrapped around her body and she pulled against a chest that was solid with muscle. She tried to scream but a wet cloth descended over her face, nearly suffocating her. A sharp chemical smell like disinfectant or paint thinner burned in her nostrils just as the world started to fade away.
Her last thought before she passed out was that she hadn’t thought to lock the window.
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