The Demon Inside by M.L. Sparrow

Author:M.L. Sparrow [Sparrow, M.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: M L Sparrow
Published: 2015-05-11T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

“She’s my sister...”

“You’ve got one of those fucking things out there?”

“She’s secure...”

“Are you insane?”

“What were you thinking?”

“Where is it?”

“We need to kill it...”

“She’s my sister!”

“Not anymore. She’s one of them.”

“You can’t kill her.”

“Watch me.”

“I won’t let you.”

“Don’t get in my way, boy,” Mac snarled, grabbing Will violently by the front of the shirt.

“Enough.” The voice was frail, but hard as steel at the same time, non-negotiable. Turning to face the elderly woman standing in the living room doorway, a thick dressing gown tied over her ankle length night gown, everyone fell silent.

“Gran, go back to bed, everything’s alright. I can handle this.” However, the break in his voice belied his words, showing his distress.

“William Richard Mackenzie, I will not be ordered around in my own home.” The look in her eyes dared anyone to argue, “Now, sit down, all of you, and calm down.”

Slowly, grudgingly, they complied. Squeezing onto the two sagging couches, they watched silently as Granny Pat hobbled slowly over to the only armchair, with her grandson hovering anxiously over her. Lowering herself carefully onto the cushions, she accepted the quilt Will pulled from the back of the sofa and handed to her, spreading it over her knees before folding her hands in her lap and leaning back, as if she were about to serenely tell them a bedtime story.

“Now,” she began, “this is about my Elizabeth, isn’t it?”

Perched on the arm of the chair, Will looked down in surprise, “You know...? I thought...”

Patting his knee, she smiled softly at him. “Of course I knew. I practically raised you two troublemakers, you can’t pull the wool over my eyes that easily. Plus,” she snorted, shaking her head, “I may be goin’ deaf, but even I can hear the ruckus that girl makes every night.”

“Girl?” Mac repeated, sneering in disgust from where he remained standing by the window, “that’s not a girl, it’s not your granddaughter, it’s an animal and it’d kill us all and eat us for breakfast in a heartbeat.”

“She won’t get the chance, I told you, she’s secure. She’s locked in one of the horse trailers; the windows are covered with wire mesh and boarded up. The door is bolted and chained. The only way in or out is a hatch in the roof, which I use to feed her, and there’s no way she could reach it.”

“That’s fine ‘til it gets knocked over or something,” Alec snapped, before he was interrupted by his dad.

“You feed it?” Mac looked incredulous, “What, you got a bit of a Hansel and Gretel thing goin’ on? Lure them in, feed ‘em up and then throw ‘em to the cannibal in your backyard?”

“Of course not...”

“Were we next?”

“Shut up, Mac,” Callie snapped, glaring at him, “give him a chance to explain.”

“Explain what! He’s got a monster outside and he’s feedin’ it like a damn pet...”

“Chicken,” Will butted in, his face flushed, “I feed her chicken, ducks, things like that.”

“Who the hell gives a damn what you’re feedin’ it? You should have killed it.

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