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If you have not read The Wind Weeps, grab your free digital copy now on amazon or on smashwords. Follow it up with the conclusion to Andrea’s story in Reckoning Tide.
Here is a sample of the beginning of Reckoning Tide.
You’re mine!
To have,
To hold,
No matter how hard.
To have,
To hold,
No matter how hard.
You’re mine!
Give me honour,
Obey,
And do as you’re told.
Give me honour,
Obey,
And do as you’re told.
You’re mine!
In sickness,
My sickness,
Comes hell.
In sickness,
My sickness,
Comes hell.
You’re mine!
This day forward,
’Til death,
Do us part.
This day forward,
’Til death,
Do us part.
Chapter 1
“Nurse!” I screamed. “Nurse, come
back!” Robert’s smile vanished. He advanced and tossed the three orchids onto
the foot of my bed.
I twisted around grasping for the
cord with the call button. “Get away from me!” I hit the button frantically.
Robert lunged at me. “No, Andrea.
Don’t!” He ripped the cord away from me. I pulled my fist back to punch him,
but he was quick and caught my wrist in an iron grip. His eyes narrowed into
slits.
“Nurse!” I yelled again. He
clamped a hand over my mouth. Flashbacks of what that hard hand had done to me
went through my mind. I bit down on his fingers, my terror lending me extra
strength.
“Arrrgh! You bitch!” Robert’s
eyes grew wide. He stared at me with a glassy look that I remembered too well.
He drew his arm across his chest to backhand me, but dropped it when the nurse
appeared.
“What’s going on here?” the nurse
demanded. Margaret was a hefty woman. She filled most of the doorway as she
stood with her hands on her hips. “Sir! Come away from the bed.”
“She bit me!” he said, unable to
keep the whine out of his voice. “I brought her flowers—orchids, her favourite
kind—and she bit me!”
I gasped at his outrageous
boldfaced ploy, twisting the truth. “He tried to kill me. Don’t let him near
me. He’s the one I told you about.”
“Now, Andrea.” Robert’s voice,
silky smooth, sent ripples of terror up my spine. “You know that’s not true.”
He turned to the nurse and slowly shook his head. “I’m her husband. You see,
she’s had quite a shock. We had an argument and she set fire to our cabin and
ran away when she thought I had died in the fire. I guess she’s surprised to
see that I’m still alive.”
The nerve of him! I tried to get
out of bed. “No! No-no-no!” I had to get the nurse to believe me. “He’s
twisting it all around. He tried
to kill me.”
The nurse was quick to put her
hand out. “Stay in bed, Andrea.” She looked flustered and tried to calm us
both. But no wonder she was confused. The whole situation was so bizarre. She
looked from Robert to me and back to Robert again.
Would she side with Robert?
“Sir,” she said, “would you mind
going to the waiting room down the hall? I’m sure the RCMP would like to speak
with you, too. They’ll be here soon to interview Andrea.”
Robert raised his chin and gave
me a smirk. “That was fast,” he said. “We’ll soon get to the bottom of the
situation then.”
The nurse escorted him out the
door. “We called them this morning when she woke up,” I heard her say as they
walked down the hall.
The nurse had explained to me
earlier that the police have to make a report in cases where there has been
violence, especially since a gun was found in my fanny pack. The gun I pointed at him last week. Should have pulled
the damn trigger.
*****
You will find paperback and
digital versions of Reckoning Tide on amazon outlets and on smashwords.com (for
e-readers other than Kindle). Just click on the links:Amazon.com
Smashwords.com
Anneli Purchase lives on
Vancouver Island, Canada, where she works as an author and freelance
copy-editor. Her articles on coastal life have been published in Canadian
magazines. Her novels involve relationships that develop in unusual settings,
from the wild and remote coast of British Columbia, to the primitive camping
areas of Mexico’s Baja Peninsula, or the grisly conditions in postwar central
Europe. Her aim is to have the reader still thinking about these people and
places long after they close the covers of the books.
For more about Anneli and
her books, visit her at http://anneli-purchase.com/
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