23 Shattered by Dean Koontz

Author:Dean Koontz
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Horror
ISBN: 9780425099339
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1983-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

“He’ll return,” Colin said.

The boy was standing by the desk, wearing only his skivvies and his Coke-bottle glasses. His thin brown legs were trembling uncontrollably, the bony knees nearly knocking together. Doyle, also standing there in his underwear, wondered if his own body was betraying his state of mind.

“Maybe not,” he said. “Now that he knows we’re up and around, he might not risk coming back.”

Colin was adamant. “He will.”

Doyle knew what the situation demanded, but he did not want to face up to it. He did not want to go out there in the rain, looking for the man who had tried to pick the room lock.

“We could call the police,” Colin said.

“Oh? We still haven’t anything to tell them, any proof. We’d sound like a couple of raving lunatics.”

Colin went back to his bed and sat down, pulled the blanket around himself, so that he looked like a miniature American Indian.

In the bathroom, Doyle drew a glass of tap water and drank it slowly, swallowing with some difficulty.

As he rinsed the glass and put it on the fake-marble shelf beside the porcelain sink, he caught sight of his face in the mirror. He was pale and haggard. The fear was etched in painfully obvious lines at the corners of his bloodless mouth and all around his eyes. He did not like what he saw, and he could barely meet his own gaze.

Christ, he thought, doesn’t the frightened little boy ever fade away and let the man come through? Won’t you ever outgrow it, Alex?

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