Cassie woke up. Someone was watching her. She opened her eyes without so much as twitching a toe. Her heartbeats felt like they were exploding inside of her ears. The dark was suffocating around her. What the hell had woken her?
Slowly her muscles started to unclench as she lay there, unmoving and listening. Nothing. No unfamiliar sounds came from the house. But it was creepy, knowing that Marcus could at any moment find her whereabouts. Cassie tried to relax and close her eyes. But her eyelids kept popping open. She was more scared than usual. Fear was a heavy object that was sitting on her lungs making her breathing heavy and tight.
And now that Luke wasn’t downstairs, how did she know someone wouldn’t get in? She was the first one they’d come to in the house. And for her, it wasn’t th
