Hallowed Ground by Hope Anika EPUB & PDF

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• Authors: Hope Anika
• Language: English
• Genre: Romance Collections & Anthologies
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“HELP!”
Ellie Broussard did her best to ignore that desperate cry.
Her world was isolated and quiet, peaceful but for the dark, internal chaos
that plagued her, and that was how she preferred to keep it.
“Bleedin’ hell, help!”
It wasn’t that she didn’t care—well.
Yes, it was.

The planet turned around her, spinning through space at a whopping one
thousand miles an hour, but she stood nice and still, and frankly, she didn’t
give a damn what happened out on the turning top.
“Mick! I’m comin’, son!”
Son.

The word stabbed through her.
Somebody’s son was in danger!
But she didn’t care. She didn’t want to get involved.
Children died.
That’s simply how it was.
It wasn’t her problem—

Merde!
She jumped down the rickety wooden steps of her back porch, jogged
through the overgrown lawn and around the thumb of wetland that skirted her
property to the shore of Lake Poisson, where she could see someone in the
water, floundering wildly. They’d been foolish enough to walk the long,
rotten length of old man Guidry’s dock and had fallen through.
“Help!” The cry turned to a scream of piercing terror. “Help me!”
Panic bolted through her, and she began to run.

In her peripheral vision, a shadow streaked in the same direction, but dark
thoughts twisted through her—dusk, the gators would be hungry, waiting!
—and she sped up, her heart a wild, frightened hammer.
The dock wobbled beneath her, but she knew to stick to the right side,
where the wood was a little less rotten, and she sprinted along that line until
she reached the end of the platform. Then she dove in.

The water was cool, thick, and heavy; the lifeblood of the bayou. Fear
flooded through her when she surfaced and spotted a boy’s floating,
motionless form, and as she swam swiftly toward him, she prayed.
Something she’d not done for as long as she could remember.
Our father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name—
—it felt like an eternity. Was she getting closer? She had to be getting
closer—

—thy kingdom come; thy will be done—
—he had to be close, he hadn’t been that far out—
—on earth, as it is in heaven —

There!
Her hands snagged his t-shirt, and she rolled him over, surprised by his
size. A teenager with hair as bright as a new copper penny, and heavy, even
in the water. She wrapped one arm around his chest and began to swim back
toward shore with the other.

Blood roared in her head; her lungs fought for breath; the muscles in her
arms and legs burned. She swept her gaze around them as she swam, hoping
nothing gazed back, aware that gators were just one of the many creatures in
the bayou that could ruin a fine evening.

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