Chapter 4 - In the Dark
“Leo, you are bleeding.”
Her voice shook in the confined, pitch-black space of the moving elevator.
“It is just a graze.”
His voice was strained, lacking its usual commanding edge.
The elevator suddenly ground to a violent, screeching halt.
The emergency brakes engaged, throwing Tessa hard against the steel wall.
The entire estate’s power grid had just been severed.
They were trapped between the main floor and the underground bunker.
Tessa crawled across the dark floor until her hands found his chest.
She could feel the steady, terrifying pulse of blood flowing from a wound near his collarbone.
“Take your shirt off.”
“Tessa, now is not the time.”
“If you bleed to death in here, I will be trapped with a corpse.”
She did not wait for his permission.
Her shaking hands unbuttoned his ruined shirt and pushed the fabric off his broad shoulders.
She grabbed the hem of her burgundy silk slip dress and ripped a long strip of fabric from the bottom.
She pressed the improvised silk bandage hard against his bleeding shoulder.
Leo inhaled sharply, his good hand coming up to grip her waist in the dark.
“You look better in the dress.”
May you like
Tessa wanted to scream at him for flirting while they were actively dying.
Before she could reply, the emergency red phone on the elevator wall began to ring.
