Love after Dark
Chapter 80: A Child's Bedroom
The shaking and rumbling stopped abruptly, and the silence afterwards was deafening. There was no noise, not even a bird song. Laura could hear herself breathing, hear her own heart pounding in her ears as she pressed her fingertips to George’s artery. She let out a relieved breath as she felt a slow, but steady heartbeat.
He wasn’t dead.
He was bleeding profusely. Her pants were already soaked in his blood, and a puddle was forming on the dusty hardwood floor around them. “Somebody help me turn him,” she gasped. Although he was also injured, Seth helped her to roll George over on his side, so her fingers could carefully explore the back of his head. When her fingers came away drenched in red, sticky blood, she bent closer and swore
