Keep The Midnight Out by Gray Alex

Author:Gray, Alex [Gray, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780751554861
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Published: 2015-03-18T16:00:00+00:00

He didn’t deserve that glorious rainbow arching across the fields. A stand of birches obscured the sky for a moment as the train swung around a bend on the track, then it was there once more, faint hues from crimson to orange blending past the rain-streaked window of the railway carriage. None of the people in the seats opposite him seemed to have noticed, heads down in newspapers or magazines, a few already tucking into their sandwich lunches. He hadn’t eaten anything for two days, stomach heaving at the very thought of food.

The man staring out of the window licked dry lips, wondering how to explain his lack of hunger to the folks back home. A gastric bug, he’d pretend. Hadn’t he always been good at pretending, conning the women in his family into letting him play hookey from school when all he’d really wanted was to watch the children’s programmes on television?

His head was deliberately turned away from his fellow passengers, a strange reluctance to let anyone look at his face lest they see what he had seen in the mirror: the face of a killer.

The train rocked steadily along, pine trees fringing sky that was a shade of heavenly blue behind grey and threatening clouds. The weather might change several times over before they arrived at the ferry terminal. Would the sea be calm or choppy for his crossing? The hills clear or blotted out by mist? Did it matter? Once he had played a game with himself, trying to see if there would still be that frisson of joy as the bus turned the corner at the top of the Guline Dubh, the distant town glimpsed for a moment.

But now, despite the hasty flight from the city, he was not even sure that he ought to be going back to Tobermory again, a place that would surely be darkened by his very presence, contaminating the town with a shadow of evil.

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