Frozen in Time by Radia Al Rashid (the speed reading book .TXT) 📖

puzzled by my sudden change of plan. Before she could pull the trigger once again, I run the knife targeting her skinny hand which leaves a fairly deep scar on her wrist making her yelp like a pig. I take the time to go back and climb the stairs towards the room. I hear her screaming and shooting continuously from behind. This death trap cannot be in the middle of any locality or else neighbors would come at this maddening turbulence.

I fly across the staircase and reach the room. I open the door to find all of them tied to the walls. All four are lying unconscious on the floor. Before I can do anything, I hear Belinda behind me, “You have the audacity to hurt my mother? Now, you’ll see what I can do.” She immediately runs a knife towards my body with unbelievable control making me understand how easy it is for her to hurt or kill a person without hesitating a bit. I duck my head down to avoid the knife. She keeps trying over and over until she leaves a deep wound right under my collar bones. I let out a sharp scream as the pain radiates across the skin. I make an attempt to hurt her with the knife held in my hand but fail. She surely knows how to dodge off any attack. She moves the knife again, this time targeting my neck. I squeeze my eyes shut as I don’t have any energy left to move my body. Hearing a gurgling sound, I open my eyes to find something I couldn’t even imagine, Ava, regaining her consciousness pulled Belinda from behind which made her trip over her own knife. Now, she’s literally gurgling the blood oozing out of her split throat. My body shudders at the horror scene as I stop myself from gagging.

“You okay?” Ava weakly asks.

“Y-yeah! What happened to you? Are they alright?”

“Yeah! They made us unconscious and tied us up against the wall. I think, we should call the police.”

“I did already but I don’t know what is taking them so long.”

“Where is Allegra?” 

“She’s downstairs probably with some other monsters from her cult.”

“What?”

“I don’t know. I don’t have any idea, maybe she’s a part of some evil cult or something.”

“How do you know?”

“I’ll tell you everything later.” I untie her hands after a lot of failed attempts.

“Untie them all and try to bring back their consciousness.”

“Alright!”

“What do you think you’re doing? What did you do to my daughter?” Allegra screams with rage. My scar is bleeding profusely making me weaker and weaker by the minute.

“She did it to herself. We didn’t do anything.” Ava tries to calm the raging beast.

“I will kill this hussy right in front of you, now.” she motions to me.

“No, please! Don’t.”

The she-devil waves Ava off and steps towards me with an evil smirk hanging on her lips, “You killed my daughter! You scarred me. I am ending this shit! Enough has been enough.”

She is holding a huge knife in her hand that looks like a sword of some kind. I decide to do something before dying in this devil’s hand. I summon all the energy in my body and stand up.

“Wow! You are impressing me with your courage. Bravo!” she is a few inches apart from me right now. I wait her to step a bit closer and carefully kick her right shin with as much force as possible. She trips on her foot and stops which gives me some more blessed time to run. Before leaving, I signal Ava not to move.

“That little hussy got me again! it is impossible.” Allegra cries out with a booming thunderous voice. I keep running downstairs with full-fledged determination not to look back and reach the door. The possibility of her cult members being there crosses my mind but I cannot halt, not for a second more. My vision begins to get blurry when I bump into someone. It can either be some crazy cult member or Scott! God! I tried till the last hour, you saw it all! Shutting my eyes tight, I scream with frustration and sadness…sadness of not saving those four innocent girls, sadness of being defeated to death by this psychotic demon and his evil ally.

“Eve! You okay? Eve, look at me.” a familiar voice calls out to me. I slowly open my tear-moistened eyes to find Richard standing there before me. Wow! am I having the flashbacks before dying? How I wish to get back to those days! I miss you Richard. I miss you so much!

“Eve!” he jerks me by my arm.

“Is it for real? Are you the real Richard?”

“Yeah! This is real. Eve, you’re bleeding.” He hugs me to make me stop from falling down. I can hear the police sirens and a lot of other noises around me.

“Richard, I didn’t kill Melissa.” I utter weakly.

“God! eve, I know and they figured it out already. It’s Angela, one of Anna’s allies who did it. It’s not the time to discuss those! You need help…”

“There are other…four girls up there. They are there, the she-devil would kill them.” I can feel my voice trailing off.

“They went there, you don’t need to worry, alright?”

“I missed you so much, Richard. I love you.” I don’t know what came over me. I practically don’t have any control over my mouth now nor am I processing anything in my head.

“I missed you more, Eve!” he hugs me tight. “Love you too, now let’s go outside. Everyone is waiting.”

Two medics brought a stretcher where I lie down without any more word. The stretcher feels incredibly comfy and pleasant even with the scorching pain in my back as they carry me out of the death trap.

Julia runs towards me as soon as the medics step out of the door.

“Eve, I’m so sorry! It’s all been my fault, you have been through the hell only for me.” she bursts into tears.

“It’s okay, Jules! I’m still alive.” I give a tired smile.

“Did you get the other girls?” I ask the medics.

In reply, one of them points at the girls who look much better than me. I smile at them through tears.

“You saved us, Eve.” Elle cries out. Behind her, two policemen are seen to drag the crazy she-devil out of the house. She keeps cursing me and the girls which I choose to block off. Every nerve on my head is shaking. I still am in a trance and can’t believe I’m actually out of the haunted hell.

“Hey, dummy! Welcome back.” Drake smiles as he holds my hand.

“Hey! You came.” My throat tightens with the surge of emotions.

“Yeah! How couldn’t I? look over there, Mr. Rogers also came. He is not so much of a jerk after all.” He teases.

“Woah! Really? I can’t believe it.” I smile at the “once jerk” Mr. Rogers.

“So, you haven’t told me about this Richard guy, huh? Girl! he loves you so much. You should’ve seen what he did throughout this whole time. Now, I know why you chose to be a nun. Such a drama queen you are.” He smiles.

In reply I only grin and look around to find all the familiar faces. Aron smiles and waves at me from a distance.

“Who else will go with her in the ambulance?” one of the medics asks.

“I’ll go.” Julia chimes in.

“I guess, it’d be better if Richard goes.” Sarah grins at Julia. In reply, Julia also gives a grin nodding at Richard.

“Hey!” he softly strokes my hair.

“Hi! I’m alive.”

“Yes, you are.” He squeezes my hand showing that knee-weakening grin.

 

Imprint

Text: Radia Al Rashid
Images: BookRix.com
Editing: The Author
Publication Date: 02-02-2021

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Dedication:
To my all time support system Bush and my friends who always praises my every single writing!