Abbott sat up straight in bed. Beth’s piercing scream briefly triggered the pain in his head, but the agony subsided after a moment.
He bolted from his bed and dressed quickly in the jeans and sweatshirt he had folded on a chair the night before. With no one else around to hear, where did she think the hollering would get her? The b***h needed to know that all she would accomplish was to give herself one hell of a sore throat.
The pleas for help got louder, bringing back the pain in his head and causing his paranoia to rise. What if someone happened to be driving by on the access road over the hill? The mailman, maybe? He might be able to hear her.
Abbott ignored the cold floor and rushed to the lean-to once used for canned fruits and vegetables storage. He unlocked the door and burst i
