Page 135 of Reaper's Rival

“I promise you as soon as I can get back, I will be on the road.”

“I know.”

“Didn’t you have something you wanted to show me?”

My mind clicked over and then I remembered. “Oh yeah, I do.”

I walked up the staircase and then put the phone on loudspeaker and opened my top drawer.

“The clubhouse was dead without you guys.” I started a conversation up. I picked up the phone and took a quick selfie in the long mirror and sent it to him, attached with the words ‘some of my purchases.’

“Hold on a minute, I just got a message.”

“Yeah, it's from me.”

He groaned on the phone. “That’s cruel, sending images like that to me.”

“I just thought you would have as just as much fun taking it off me as I did buying it.” I laughed and fell back on the bed.

“Fucking hell, if I was there right now, you wouldn’t be in it. It would be on the floor.”

“And I’d be where?”

There was a noise downstairs so I didn’t hear his response. “Hold on a sec, there was a noise downstairs.”

I walked to the top of the stairs, and my eyes doubled when I saw the front door wide open.

Then I saw a shadow on the wall.

“Reaper, someone's in the house!?” I whispered in a panic into the phone.

I went straight to the bathroom. It was the only room with a lock.

“What! What do you mean there is someone in the house?”

“The front door is open, and I saw a shadow move across the wall, and now I hear voices.”

“Where are you?”

“In the bathroom. Reaper, I just heard the stairs.”

I was shaking and up against the bathroom door, panicking. Reaper couldn’t help me. Dad couldn’t help me. Right now I was helpless. I didn’t even have my gun!

“Abby, listen to me carefully.”

I went silent, though my breathing was still fast. Then I felt the handle behind me shake.

“Reaper, the handle just moved.” I turned sharply and backed away from it.

“Abby, listen to me. Grab something you can swing.”

I got a vase and emptied the flowers out.

“Ok, I got a vase.”

“Ok, now they’re going to come in.”

“WHAT? No. Reaper, do something.” I watched the handle move again.

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