“You should call the police now!!!” Sandra’s scream jolted Beatrice back to life.
Sweating profusely while in a state of confusion and fear, Beatrice fumbled with her bedside lamp as she struggled to get herself to sit up.
Holding her head in her palm, “Dear Lord, not this dream again,” Beatrice lamented between tears.
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Struggling to catch her breath as she fled from him in the densely dark and moist forest.
The thunderstorm made it hard for her to keep her eyes open as she struggled to find her way in the woods.
Turning back intermittently to check if he was closing in on her, Bea ran as fast as her legs could carry her.
She was almost running out of oxygen in her lungs.
One more turn and she tripped; oblivious of the log that led to her downfall.
“Haaaa…uhhhh…,” she wept in pain as she sank in the mud, frightened to her bones.
A wicked and strange feeling enveloped her as she caught her leg in pain.
Looking up, she became confused, afraid and lost as a blend of fear and death surrounded her while he strode effortlessly with ease to her.
It was late, she couldn’t help herself as he had closed in on her.
Suddenly, a spooky aura engulfed her and it struck her that dark forces had conspired with him to hold her transfixed to the ground.
She struggled to get up as fast as she could, while attempting to crawl backwards.
She screamed and cried hard for help.
At this point, she was dead afraid of what her fate might be if he finally got hold of her.
In one swift move, he was standing over her with a gaze Bea thought was a death stare.
She wiped her face with the back of her left palm, trying so hard to get a good look at the face of the one who had been terrorizing her for years.
She stared hard and she tried to keep her eyes open while the rain poured endlessly on her face.
The more she tried to see the face of her oppressor, the more the rain hindered her sight.
One last stare and all she could see was the dark hood concealing his face; the sight of it came with a type of horror best imagined.
A sudden chillness engulfed her as he drew close to her; and in a swift movement, the back of his right hand landed on her face and she blacked out.
To be continued…
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