The Border Part Four Read Online Free PDF

tensed. Blood ran from her mouth and nose, over her eyes and to her hairline. As each second passed, she felt the blade slicing through her flesh a little further, going under the breast before being pulled out. Struggling to breathe through her nose as tears rolled from her eyes, she felt his fingertips slipping into the wound, as if he was pulling the damaged flesh aside, and then she realized she could feel him touching her ribs, pulling on them hard. She tried to scream, but her mouth was still held too tight, and she tried to kick out but she was feeling too weak from the blood loss.
    Her whole body was rigid and shaking with fear and shock.
    And then her phone started ringing.
    For a few seconds, she tried desperately to reach down to her pocket, before she felt him pulling the phone out and tossing it away. She tried yet again to scream, but suddenly he slammed down hard against her chest with something and she felt a cracking sensation, as if her ribs were being broken. She wriggled again, desperately trying to get free as she felt warm blood dribbling down her side, and then she realized he was pulling on her ribs, as if he was trying to break them. Her phone was still ringing as she began to try to force him back, using all her remaining strength to get free so she could scream or run, but instead he pushed her down more firmly and finally he felt a snapping sensation in her chest, followed by another. She was sobbing now, filled with rage and fear as her attacker’s fingers reached past her ribs. When he felt him getting deeper inside and realized he was approaching her heart, she let out a wild, muffled moan. Realizing that her left leg was partially free, she tried to kick out, but all she succeeded in doing was scraping her foot against the concrete floor and knocking her shoe off.
    Finally, her phone stopped ringing.
    Sobbing desperately, she felt fingers wriggling deeper inside her chest, brushing against the edge of her pounding heart. She tried to call out again, with her eyes still squeezed shut, even as she heard her phone beep to indicate that a voice-mail message had been left. A moment later, she felt something scraping against her broken ribs, followed by a sensation of sharpness deep in her chest. Everything was strangely still and calm, as if she was suspended in a moment of terrified anticipation, waiting for him to do whatever he was going to do. She opened her eyes and looked toward the open door, seeing freedom just a few feet away and feeling a cold breeze against her face. The tears had stopped falling from her eyes now, and she tilted her head back a little, to get the breeze more fully against her eyes.
    Please God , she thought to herself, if you let me live, I’ll never doubt you again .
    Thunder rumbled again.
    Then silence.
    Please God…
    Suddenly she felt a sharp pain in her chest, and the thumping sound of her own heartbeat exploded in her ears for a fraction of a second. Her whole body tensed and jerked, and she gasped as she felt the hand lifting up from her face. She tried to cry out, but she could no longer find the breath. There was a strange dripping sensation in her chest, and a kind of warmth as if she was filling up, and she felt blood flooding into the back of her throat until it erupted from her mouth, spilling out and running down her chin and the side of her face. She tilted her head back a little further, still feeling the breeze on her face, but she knew now that there was nothing else she could do to fight back. The last sound she heard was a kind of thick, heavy dripping against the nearby concrete floor, and the last thing she saw was rain pouring down outside as finally, slowly, she let out a faint click from the back of her bloodied throat. After a moment, as she stared at the rain, she realized another type of rain was falling closer to her face, splattering against the concrete.
    Blood.
    The breeze picked up for a moment, blowing against her face, but it was too