I snagged my robe off the back of the bathroom door when I heard the first slide of metal. Running for the door, I watched as three metal cylindrical objects came out of one side of the wall.
“Parker?”
I ran for it, hoping to make it in time, but when the metal door shot out, I knew I was too late. It snapped into place just a second later, leaving me cut off from my husband.
“This is ridiculous.”
I ran over to the window to jump out, but metal sheets slid down, slamming into the window frame, blanketing me in darkness.
“Well, shit.”
18
MICHAEL
A metal doorin the doorframe shot out, slamming into the other side. I rushed forward and banged my fist against it, nearly breaking my hand.
“Blake!” I shouted.
“Parker! I’m stuck! The windows are blocked!”
“I’m gonna get you out!”
I tried to pry the damn thing open, but there was no way in hell that was gonna work. There had to be a way to clear the system and start over. Rushing over to the wall unit, I turned it back on and tried to reset the damn thing.
A skull and crossbones appeared, along with evil laughter you’d hear at some horror movie.
“What the fuck?” I muttered, pressing buttons everywhere, trying to get the damn thing to reset. I held down the ON button, hoping it would somehow restart the whole damn thing.
A whirring noise caught my attention, but when I turned around, I didn’t see a damn thing.
“Parker!” Blake shouted, banging on the door.
“Hold on! I’m trying to figure this out!”
I pressed buttons frantically, hoping something would work. And then the whirring started again. Spinning, I searched everywhere, but it wasn’t until I looked down that I finally caught on to what was making the noise.
“You little fucker,” I growled at the robot on the floor.
Those blinking lights were back, but this time, there was something evil about the damn thing. I wasn’t about to touch that thing without finding out just what in the hell it would do.
Slowly pulling out my phone, I froze when the lights seemed to narrow in on my movement. “No fucking way,” I whispered. “How does this thing know what I’m doing?”
It slowly wheeled forward, every inch making me take a step back. I hit Knight’s number and waited for him to answer.
“Let me guess, you didn’t set the alarm,” he said in his charming way.
“Knight, this fucking robot looks like it’s about to attack me.”
“Because it is,” he answered without a care in the world.
“Knight, turn the fucking thing off!”
“Well, that’s just the thing, I need to be in the house to manually end the programming, but since you didn’t set the alarm, I am officially locked out.”
“Then climb in through the fucking window!” I shouted.
“I think if you look, you’ll find the house sent you into automatic lockdown mode.”
