CHAPTER 15
ADRIANNA’S POV
I jolted out of bed like a person woken with ice cold water, gasping for breath. Fear gripped me like a vice. My heart thumped as if to burst from my chest, and goosebumps broke out from my skin. Beads of perspiration effortlessly ran down my body.
I palmed my chest in an attempt to slow the thumping, breathing out in relief when I realized it was just a dream. But it felt so vivid that I could have sworn it was real.
Letting my fingers brush against my neck where he had grabbed me, I could still feel the crushing weight of his grip there and his maniacal laugh reduced to a faded echo in the distance.
Perhaps, this was a sign, a warning for me not to carry on with my plans of killing him because it’ll surely backfire on me.
“Goodness…” I blew out a blast of
