Fade To Black (Into The Darkness Book 2) by Kelly Doug

Author:Kelly, Doug [Kelly, Doug]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Published: 2014-06-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

From inside his house, Dylan entered the garage. He strapped his knife’s sheath to his right thigh. Taking the bow in his left hand, his other hand was ready to hold a fistful of arrows. The wounds from the dog bite had healed nicely. He tested the grip of his left hand by making a tight fist and squeezing the bow handle to watch the muscles in his forearm flex.

Kim Hales and Mary were already in Dylan’s garage, waiting for the others to arrive and begin grinding the harvested corn into flour. Kim held the grain mill steady on the edge of Dylan’s workbench while Mary clamped its base securely to the table. At the table’s edge, Mary placed a chair under the mill and then sat a bucket on the chair. They positioned the bucket to catch the flour as it fell from the mill. A tarp with mounds of shelled corn covered the floor of the third garage bay. Jim had transported the grain from Tom’s field with his wheelbarrow.

“Good morning,” said Dylan.

Both women returned the greeting simultaneously.

“Have you seen the kids?” Dylan asked.

Mary stopped working and went to the threshold of the open garage door. She bent at the waist, looked side to side, and noticed that a ball they had been playing with near the garage was gone. “They must be in the backyard.”

“I’m going to ask Brad if he wants to hunt with me.” Dylan gestured toward his bow.

“Joel will be over here soon. He might want to go.” Kim paused for a second, looking upward as she thought, and then continued speaking. “And David Taylor, too. His wife, Amy, said he is going to bring buckets of corn over for them and Linda Foster.”

“Okay, I’ll wait for them. I’m in the back if anybody wants to know.” Dylan placed his arrows on a shelf, exited the garage, and went directly to the backyard.

As he walked, Dylan looked down and plucked at the string of his bow. The string appeared to be fraying at the looped ends and that had captured his attention. He was already in his backyard by the time he looked up. Dylan froze in place. He saw his children seated on the ground under the large walnut tree in his backyard. Brad and Jennifer sat next to each other with their backs to Dylan. A stranger was in front of them. The man was facing Dylan and had already begun to stand when he saw their father. Dylan’s first reaction was to grab for an arrow, but he instantly remembered that he had left them on a shelf in the garage. He quickly dropped the bow. In the same moment, his hand went to his knife’s handle, and he marched forward toward his children.

“Come to me!” exclaimed Dylan.

His children turned, smiled at him, and obeyed. They did not seem concerned about stranger. They continued to smile at their father as they approached him, even though they saw the look of fear and concern on his face.

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