Chapter 16

Chapter 16

The sun started shining and Kate still walked in the same direction as before. She held her gun tight and her mind was on Rick. She kept looking at her phone trying to get signal, if she were lucky either the precinct or Rick's mother or daughter would find it odd they weren't home yet. They were supposed to come home on the Sunday and it was now Monday, the weekend was over and the job was waiting for her. She was starting to feel sleepy cause she hadn't taken a break since she decided to find Rick. She started to think she was going the wrong way cause they couldn't have gotten that far, could they? She had been broken for a while but was it really that long? She started to feel her legs hurt and they started to numb from all walking. She glanced at her left and saw the tip of a house and immediately turned that way with her gun held high. Her body stiffened and she was now a dangerous detective with a lost, probably hostaged, fiancè. She was going to do anything to get Rick back. Anything.

Rick tried to ignore the smell from the blood and focus on how to find a way out of there. He knew Kate. She wouldn't stop until she found him. It was a good thing but it could also be her death. He didn't want that, not ever again. He felt the blood on his hands and tried to not throw up, he touched the wall a little here and there to see if there was something that could lead him out from the room or just from the darkness.

He was worried about Kate, did she run? How far did she go before she realized he wasn't behind her? Did she broke down? Did she follow? Did she go back to the tree house? All questions circles around his mind before he felt something. He formed his hand around the object. A DOORKNOB! He turned, not expecting it to be unlocked. He opened the door just so he could peek what's outside. He didn't see anyone so he sneaked out and started to walk towards what he thought might be the way out. Every now and then he looked over his shoulder to check if anyone had seen him. In front of him, maybe 5 meters ahead, he saw the corridor split in two but before he could manage to get there two men came from the left corridor. They stopped and looked at Rick with surprised faces. He quickly made a turn and ran back the same way he came. He could hear the panting and the sound from the shoes after him.

"Stop!" one of the men were screaming.

Rick ran past the door to the room he had been in. The corridor split up in that direction too and when he came there he took right, the wrong turn.