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P.S I eagerly await my cookie bookwormgrl101CHAPTER 8I couldn't move. I was frozen in place. It was definitely Dabria, the woman who wanted to take my life from me. The woman that had changed the Patch I loved into the distorted perversion of the himself that he now was. The woman who wouldn't rest until I was resting in peace.
I felt a hand come over my mouth and I tried to scream but no sound escaped my trapped lips. Patch. 'Nora, do not make a noise.' The words rung clear in my mind, Irish accent and all. Rixon. I let out a breath of relief and disappointment through my blocked lips.
'I can see her too. Here's what we're gonna do, we're gonna go into this building,' I saw an image in my mind of the two storey building in the centre of town, the building we were standing outside, 'there's an exit in the back we can use to get to the car. Whatever you do, DO NOT speak.'
He left his hand there for another couple of seconds, probably checking to see if I would follow his instructions or not, before releasing me. Dabria was still walking, her back to us. She was about fifty metres away, blocking the direct route to the car. If she turned her head back, all would be lost.
Rixon ushered me towards the cream coloured building, it was also wood panelled just like everything else in town. I looked up at the façade for a quick second before Rixon pushed me to the front door, 'Wisteria Falls Town Hall Est. 1901' the lettering at the top of the building read.
We were welcomed into the building by an empty, marble tiled foyer. Our footsteps echoed off the walls as Rixon grabbed my hand and led me towards the back of the building. We walked through an empty conference room before reaching a solid oak door. Rixon nudged it open and pulled me through. We were back outside. On one of those streets only small towns ever have, the ones where the trees on the sides of the street mat together to form a roof of branches over the road.
'Almost there.'
Rixon guided us down the street and through lane which opened onto the street where the car was parked. Rixon held out a hand to block me from going forward as we came to the end of the lane, pausing to look up and down the street.
'We're fine.' I was pretty sure the volume of my sigh of relief broke Rixon's no speaking rule but I didn't care. We both rushed over to the car. I got in, taking care not to slam the door loudly enough to draw attention. Rixon flung his bags into the backseat, not caring about what happened to their contents. I followed suit.
Rixon turned the key in the ignition and soon we speeding past the 'Thankyou for visiting Wisteria Falls' sign. Silence heavy with relief and fear hung in the air between us. The car flew over the bumps and curves of the backwoods roads.
"So, do we just go back to yours? Do we run? Do you think that Patch, the other Patch, told Dabria to look there?" My reel of questions obliterated the silence.
Rixon guided the car over a sharp turn, "Dabria doesn't know where I live, Patch is the only person I've ever told. For her to show up, it doesn't seem like coincidence…but my gut is telling me it probably is."
"What do you mean?" How could Dabria showing up be 'just coincidence'?
"Well, Wisteria Falls is a bit over half an hour from my house. It's not really close, I mean there are smaller towns closer to where I live. And if Dabria had been told that you were with me, why would she bother to stop in some podunk town before killing us? I'm not familiar with the inner workings of Dabria's severely messed up head, but I'd think that she would skip the stop over and come straight for us if she knew where you were."
"So your saying that you think we should go back to the house…"
He nodded, "look, I know you're scared but Patch left me in charge of keeping you safe. Right now I think going back to the house is the best way to keep you safe."
I swallowed involuntarily. I didn't want to sit in the one place. I wanted to keep moving far, far away from Dabria. I wanted to run. But Patch left me with Rixon for a reason. "Okay."
Twenty quiet minutes later we were pulling up in Rixon's steep driveway. Rixon got out first, standing still waiting to see if anything or anyone emerged from the edges of the clearing. Nothing did and he signalled for me to follow him into the house. I grabbed the bags, knowing I wouldn't have the nerve to come back outside to get them later. Rixon was holding the door open as I staggered through, off balance due to the amount of shopping bags weighing me down. I dropped them all on the couch.
"Stay here and don't move. I'm gonna cover the windows and check the locks." I didn't think that locks would exactly deter Dabria but I stayed put as he said. Rixon's footsteps were so silent that I just about had a heart attack when he tapped my shoulder to tell me he was done.
"Nora, it's okay. No one's here and no one is coming for us." As I caught my breath I looked up into his eyes, I could tell he doubted his own words. He took me into a hug and I buried my face into his chest.
Irony struck as there was a loud knock on the door. I jumped again, a small scream erupting from my lips as I did. Rixon and I both looked towards the door, waiting for another sound but there was nothing. Rixon turned my face towards his, 'Hide. Don't come out until I say.'
He released my jaw from his grip and I dashed down the hall and into the laundry. I sat with my back to the washing machine, the cold of its metal build seeped straight through my jacket.
'Remember what I said. Not until I say so.' Rixon's words came back into my mind as I heard the door click and swing open.