Master of Murder by Christopher Pike

Author:Christopher Pike [Pike, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Even when he knew she was as corrupt as the Rest.

Marvin woke to a small hand shaking him.

“What?” he asked, bolting upright with a start, his heart pounding. Ann was sitting on the bed beside him, her face twisted with anxiety.

"Marvin," she croaked.

"What is it?" he demanded, coming fully alert

There was some noise coming from downstairs but he wasn't sure what it was.

Ann wept. “Daddy’s here. He's breaking things.”

Marvin leapt off his bed and ran downstairs, Ann following. For such a menacing bully, his father was not a big man. Only five eight and not more than a hundred forty pounds. Yet what muscles were there, were difficult to subdue when he was enraged. Marvin had only fought with his father twice, and he couldn't have said either of them had come away victorious either time. His mom was standing in front of the TV screaming at his dad.

She may have been protecting the picture tube.

Marvin's dad had a lamp in his shaking hands and it looked as if he wanted to ram it through Humphrey Bogart's face. They were both exhaling eighty proof—

it was amazing that someone's breath

hadn't caught fire yet.

"You are a sick woman and I am going to cure you his father screamed "Now get out of my way!”

"Marvin, stop him!” his mother cried.

His father whirled on him. “What are you doing Here?”

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