Chapter 10 - The Mercy Cage

The tenth chapter of our thriller novel, in which Andrew makes a decision after the turn of the events the night before.

Andrew - New York City, 1899

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The walk from Brooklyn to Inwood Hill Mansion took the full day from dawn until dusk, and I arrived with blisters ravaging the bottoms of my feet and holes in my shoes. I didn’t stop, not even for water, as adrenaline pushed me before fatigue could take over me. Steps from the gate, I looked down at my feet, bloodied and hardly covered by remnants of my shoes. Unable to sleep a wink, I spent the night tossing and turning with the sickening smack of the club on Anna’s head echoing over and over. I endured hallucinations of running as if through a thick syrup towards the shadows in stiff coats pulling at Anne, failing to reach them  as they whisk her away.  After an eternity I jolted awake, coated in a sweat and panic to find that my nightmares were real. Anna had been taken. I set off on the walk to Inwood Hill this morning, determined to find  if Anna was taken here. If she was not, I am lost like the ships that sank in the voyage from Europe to America, forever.