EXCERPT FROM BETRAYED - A romantic suspense novel | Page 7

ONE
A door slamming makes one jump, but it doesn’t make one
afraid. What one fears is the serpent that crawls underneath it. ~
Collette, Cheri
CHICAGO, NOVEMBER, 1956
Images raced through my mind like pictures in one of those
flip books—the kind that look like animation when the pages
are fanned. As those images swirled faster and faster, terror
consumed me like a raging fire.
Flip. Flip. Flip.
Can’t breathe. Arms… hurt. Legs…hurt