I settle again into the pillows. However then I hear it.

Faucet faucet faucet.

Somebody is knocking on the window in my room. I am frozen in terror. My blood runs chilly and my limbs are stiff. Then, the worst realization of all hits me—my bed room home windows are open.

I can not scream. I can not breathe. My ears are ringing. The knock comes once more, and now it is on the again door. Somebody is making an attempt to get in.

Combat or flight kicks in, and immediately my physique is flooded with adrenaline. I leap off the sofa and race to the toilet within the heart of the home the place there are not any home windows, ensuring to grab my telephone off the sofa. I slam and lock the door and sink to the bottom, gasping for breath.

I have to name 911. However after I decide up my telephone with my shaking palms, that is not the quantity I dial.

As a substitute, I name Porter.

“Bailey?” he solutions, and his gruff voice is straight away comforting. “Child, what is the matter?”

I gulp a lungful of air. “Porter,” I sob, and tears are beginning to move. “Porter, please assist me.”

“Bailey.” His voice is difficult, and I can inform his protecting instincts are kicking in. “The place are you?”

“Somebody is outdoors the home.”

“Outdoors the home?”

“Sure!”

“Is Renae house?”

“No, she went out for the evening.”

“Fuck. Okay, child, hearken to me. Don’t unlock that door. Is there some other place secure you can go?”

“I am within the lavatory with the door locked. There are no home windows and it is an old-style deadbolt?—”

“Hear, I am on my means, Bailey. Keep on the road with me. I’ll drive as quick as I can, however do not grasp up. Hold the doorways locked and simply attempt to keep calm. Okay?”

“Yeah,” I breathe. Tears are streaming down my face, however the sound of Porter’s voice is steadying me. He’ll shield me. “Thanks, Porter. I did not know who else to name.”

“I am glad you known as. Bailey. Are you respiratory? Can you’re taking a deep breath for me?”

I inhale slowly.

“Good, sweetheart. Once more.”

I take one other shaky breath. Porter retains teaching me, his voice soothing in my ear, till lastly I really feel calmer. Time does not appear to move usually with all the fear that I am feeling, so earlier than I do know it, I hear the tires of Porter’s truck screeching into the driveway.

“I’ll grasp up now and verify outdoors. However you do not have to be scared anymore. I am right here child.”

“Okay,” I whisper.

The telephone clicks and Porter is gone. A couple of minutes cross, after which there is a pounding on the toilet door.

“Bailey it is me,” he calls. “Let me in.”

I scramble to my toes and throw open the door. Porter catches me as I hurl myself into his arms. He pulls me tight towards his chest, and one among his giant palms strokes my again.

“Shh,” he murmurs. “It is okay. I’ve acquired you now.”

“Oh, Porter—” I sniffle.

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