Stroke of Innocence! (Denny Ryder Paranormal Crime Series Book 4) by Deborah Bowman

Author:Deborah Bowman [Bowman, Deborah]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Clasid Consultants Publishing
Published: 2015-06-13T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Clarissa had been asleep for a little while. At least she thought she’d been sleeping.

Mrs. Ryder—ah, Denny as the adult allowed Clarissa to refer to “the pretty red-haired lady”—had told her she could stop her dreams while sleeping if she thought about it. She was so glad “Denny”—it made them seem like BFFs, near the same age—understood and knew how the dreams worked.

She’d helped the child accept that they were dreaming about things that were really happening, but were so frightening that neither of them wanted to see the pictures.

A new scene was pushing its way into her dream as the child struggled to wake up. Clarissa wanted to stop it, but she was tired, so very tired, and it was just too hard to make the sights and sounds go away.

It was Dog she saw, the bad man’s big, black and brown doggie. Maybe this dream would be okay. Clarissa had really liked the doggie. He was supposed to be mean according to the bad man, but Clarissa didn’t think so. The Doberman, as everyone called the doggie, had liked her too. She just knew it!

She watched the doggie sniffing around trees and rocks. It looked like the same place where she’d been in the dream last night, and there was even more snow everywhere. It was daytime and she could see better, but she couldn’t see the cabin this time. Dog was facing the dark woods that she had stumbled through barefoot. She was relieved that she couldn’t see the area around the cabin with the little boy’s body.

Why did the bad man think he was helping kids to live forever when he killed them? It didn’t make any sense. Denny said he was a very sick man.

Clarissa instantly jolted awake when she heard the bad man’s harsh, sluggish voice yell, “Dog, quit dilly-dallying!” The last thing she remembered was Dog yelping loudly. The bad man reached out and hit the poor doggie!

She woke up crying, but not screaming. Dog and the man had been looking for something. Clarissa knew where they were—the same spot she’d been standing in last night during her dream.

She hushed her tears. She didn’t want to scare Mommy and Daddy again. She was frightened that somehow the man would know she’d been there, and she didn’t want to watch him hurt the doggie. Dog and Tommy had been her friends.

Clarissa must have made some noise that carried out of her pretty pink bedroom because when she sat up Denny was with her.

“It’s okay, Clarissa. What did you see?”

“Just the doggie. The bad man and Dog are searching the snowy forest for something or someone. I think they’re looking for me. He slapped the doggie. I don’t like him!”

Denny wrapped her arms around the trembling child. “Maybe he is, Clarissa, but he won’t find you. You’re not there. You never were.”

“Then why do I have scratches on my feet and hair gone where the owl chased me?”

Denny couldn’t answer that question. She really needed to talk to Dr.

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