Amber Silverblood: Chapter Thirty Five
Chapter Thirty Five We ran for thirty minutes, sticking to the woods but keeping the town in sight. I could smell every car that passed on the nearby street, the rancid, acidic scent burning my sensitive nostrils. D.K. stayed in the front, leading the...
Amber Silverblood: Chapter Thirty Four
Chapter Thirty Four The next morning came too soon, but it started off better than I had hoped. Instead of D.K. beating down my door, Tyler was the one who came to wake me up. "Let her sleep," he said when I reached toward Kimberly, so I got up...
Amber Silverblood: Chapter Thirty Three
Chapter Thirty Three "Hold still," I said, dipping the washcloth into the bathwater. Kimberly shut her eyes tight as I reached up and began to dab at her face. "It hurts a little," she said when I lowered the cloth again, rinsing it off as best I...
Bonus Chapter #1: Thanksgiving 2014
Bonus Chapter 1 Thanksgiving 2014 I sat there on the floor of D.K.'s bedroom for almost twenty minutes before finally getting up and leaving. I needed to go find Kimberly and calm her down. As I walked, drying my eyes, I wasn't watching where I...
Amber Silverblood: Chapter Thirty Two
Chapter Thirty Two The walk back to the Swag Pags' house went by a lot slower than the run to the store, but not nearly as slow as I needed it to be. As guilty as I felt for trying to steal from Chuck, it was being dwarfed by the thought of what...
Amber Silverblood: Chapter Thirty One
Chapter Thirty One I watched, stunned, as the lead whatever-he-was let the door jingle shut behind him. That had been, without a doubt, the quickest, most efficient robbery I'd ever seen. Not that I'd seen many, but still... I turned to look at...
Amber Silverblood: Chapter Thirty
Chapter Thirty A bell jingled as the door swung shut behind me. "I'll be with you in just a second," a weary sounding voice said from the other side of the store. I turned to look, and saw a short, pudgy man standing behind a desk. I also noticed...
Amber Silverblood: Chapter Twenty Nine
Chapter Twenty Nine I awoke when my bedroom door was thrown open, and D.K. came storming in. "Get up, girl," he commanded before my eyes had even opened all the way. Impatient, he reached down and hauled me to my feet by the collar of my...
Amber Silverblood: Chapter Twenty Eight
Chapter Twenty Eight Tyler and I were back in front of the Swag Pag's house in twenty minutes. I padded into the grove of trees where I'd left my clothes, panting with exhaustion. After the gray haired man had left us, I'd ran all the way home at a...
Amber Silverblood: Chapter Twelve
Chapter Twelve The clock on my nightstand told me it was two minutes past midnight when a sharp rap came at my door. It didn't wake me, since I had been far too worried to sleep. I'd spent the past six hours lying motionless on my bed, wishing I...
Amber Silverblood: Chapter Eleven
Chapter Eleven "That took longer than was expected, Dexter." The woman who had spoken was... well, I'm not sure if she was really a woman at all. She wore an expensive looking suit and skirt, but there wasn't an inch of skin anywhere on her body....
Amber Silverblood: Chapter Ten
Chapter Ten A sharp rapping came at my door, jolting me awake in an instant and almost causing me to roll out of bed. "Hey, you dressed in there?" Dex's voice asked from the other side. "What?" I asked, head reeling as I tried to come to my senses....