Wall Around Her Heart novel Chapter 1

I found a town; I did not think that he would ever find me. I had been able to hide money from my job, from him and had enough to buy a small one-bedroom house. I did not live in the town but at the edge of town.

I noticed that there was a big building with a house across the road from me with a gate around it. I was painting the front of the house when I saw a motorcycle ride past. I noticed that he had stopped at the stop sign, and he was looking at me. I looked at him and quickly looked away.

I started shaking so bad, I had to put the paintbrush down. I looked back under my lids and saw he was riding away. I took a breath and let it out. Tammy, I said to myself. You have to stop shaking every time a man looks at you. I continued to paint the front of the house a pretty blue.

I then grabbed the small can of white paint and climbed up the latter and stood paining the trim around the window. I heard more bikes coming down the road. I turned and looked down towards the ground and noticed five bikers looking up at the roof.

I turned and finished painting the trim before slowly backing off the roof to the ladder. As I started to climb down, I grabbed the can and brush and noticed they were still watching me. I ignored them as I put the paint can on the porch and moved the ladder to the side of the house, before going back to the porch. I watched them ride away.