Kosa by Press DarkLit & Durgin John

Author:Press, DarkLit & Durgin, John
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: DarkLit Press
Published: 2024-05-17T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 21

Chief Roberts spent the better part of an hour searching the house for any evidence of an intruder. He checked every window, every door, and, as Ian expected, he concluded that there had been no intruder at all. There had been no forced entry, for a start. Sammy wasn’t helping the situation with his testimony. Whether it be from shock or the possibility of him sleepwalking as Roberts suggested, Ian didn’t know.

Ian’s mind kept going back to the strange design drawn on the floor, and the second set of footprints going to the woods. But it was more than that. Beyond the things he could see, the things he couldn’t see were eating at him. Someone was watching him in the woods. He felt it—hell, he saw it—the first time he’d gone to look for Sammy. There were just too many coincidences lining up for everything to be some random episode of sleepwalking.

After they had gotten back to the house, Kristen and Jack removed Sammy’s wet clothes and put him in a warm bath, careful to let his body warm slowly. The first few minutes were awful for Sammy. With the numbness slowly dissipating, the actual pain set in. The boy screamed, a blood-curdling howl, when the slight tingling transitioned to needle-like jabs continuously pulsating through the bottom of his heels up into his toes. The cries sounded so painful that Ian found himself crying at the thought of being unable to help the boy. Roberts examined Sammy’s feet and said he’d somehow avoided frostbite, but Ian wasn’t so sure about that. Most of Sammy’s feet slowly returned to their normal color, but the bottoms remained a dark red, like someone had just finished scraping sandpaper along them.

Scooter curled up on the couch next to Sammy, nuzzling his wiry face into the warm blankets that draped the boy. Ian envied his nephew, who, after all the turmoil, somehow found a way to pass out on the couch while all the adults tried to hold their shit together. Jack had finally begun to calm down, but Kristen was a mess. Now that she knew her son was safe, she was picking apart all the things she’d allowed to happen under her roof. Ian sat in silence next to Sammy and Scooter by the fire while the boy’s parents argued in the kitchen about which one had left the door unlocked, or who was to blame for not hearing their son get out of bed and walk by their bedroom, down the stairs, and out the door without anyone so as much stirring in their sheets. Kristen couldn’t stand not having control of a situation, and when it involved her own son, forget about it. As much as Ian envied Sammy’s ability to sleep through it all, he equally sympathized with Jack for having to deal with the anger consuming Kristen.

When Roberts saw the symbol on the floor, he concluded it was part of Sammy’s sleepwalking episode, saying the boy must have drawn it without realizing what he was doing.

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