Chapter 15
Jayden woke suddenly, heart pounding in his chest, and was listening before he was aware of what he was listening for in the first place. Something was wrong. After a moment, his higher mental faculties caught up to him, and he tried to catalogue the sharp start: the house was quiet, there was nothing loud outside, and he didn’t feel as though he’d had a nightmare, or…
Or perhaps he had, because the thumping was still going. Not in his chest, but somewhere in the house. Thud, thud, thud. Very precise and rhythmic, perfectly in time with…with something.
And where was Darren?
His heart picked up again and Jayden swung his legs out of bed, peering almost hopefully around the bedroom as though Darren had fallen out and dozed off on the floor again. But he wasn’t there, and a nau
