Chapter 21 - Chase

Chapter 21

Soft warm light hit him and suddenly he was standing in a hallway. A burgundy hallway, filled with soothing candle lights and carpet as thick and as lush as the rooms he had just run from. The hall branched to the left and right of him and Brandon struggled not to dry heave into the ground as the world tried to tilt all around him.

He was shaking. He was hurt. He couldn't breathe.

He had to move!

Brandon stumbled to the left and tried to run, but he didn't even get a chance.

"Hey stop!!" Suddenly there was a hand around his wrist and Brandon was jerked back nearly off of his feet and into a wall of warmth. "Gotcha!"

Brandon struggled feebly to get free for a few seconds, but no matter how he turned his weak wrist the stranger wasn't letting go. With an indignant jerk that threw him off balance more than the stranger he finally looked at him.

"Let me...." He began to bite off through his teeth then he just trailed off.