Despised: Soon-To-Be-A-Billionaire's Dark Revenge

Chapter 33 THEY ARE COMING

I held the handle of the door and twisted downward. It creaked but stood its ground.

'How do we get out?' Maria asked.

'Let's find another way,' Eric said, and he turned and walked back to the hall. We followed him. He stopped in the middle of the hall and pointed the flashlight around the hall, moving from the right side of the hall to the left.

The flashlight stopped in the direction of a window close to the end of a row of windows.

'Let's try it,' Eric said and toward it.

We reached the window and Eric swiped the cobwebs away from the pane and lifted the hook. He rammed his right palm on the iron frame in the middle of the window. The window creaked and moved backward. Eric pushed it and the window swung opened. Fresh air rushed in, followed by a swarm of black insects.

'Wasps!' Eric screamed. 'Move back!'

We ran back many paces from the window. The wasps flew around the window, their shadows multiplying their actual sizes and numbers, and soon the last one flew out of the win