The Dead Man: Eater of Souls (Kindle Worlds Novella) by Joseph Nassise

Author:Joseph Nassise [Nassise, Joseph]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2013-10-21T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Early the next morning Matt drove the cart over to Jefferson Hall and parked out front in full view of the entrance. He hunted around in the buses out front until he found the control box for the sprinkler system, then opened it up and began to poke around inside of it. He did what he could to look busy despite the fact that he knew next to nothing about how the system was supposed to work. Nor did he care either; all he wanted was a reasonable excuse to be hanging around the front of the building to observe those going in and out and a sprinkler repair gave him just that.

Matt knew that day students were all assigned a locker inside Jefferson so that they wouldn’t have to carry all of their textbooks to each and every class, so he decided that staking out the entrance was probably the best way to catch as many of them in the same place at one time. Turned out he was right. By 7:45 the area in front of the building was filled with teenagers hanging out before heading off to their first class of the day.

Just as he’d hoped, no one gave him a second glance. He watched them come and go, keeping an eye out for David Bateman while doing what he could to look busy.

What he’d seen last night had convinced him that David had reached the end of his rope and it wouldn’t be long before the youth lost what little was left of his rapidly fraying control. When he did snap, all of that anger and hatred was going to come pouring out at his fellow students. Just as it had in Littleton and Blackburg.

Matt was determined to keep that from happening and the best way to do so was to keep his eye on Bateman, he’d decided.

Except the boy was nowhere to be found. Matt scrutinized each new arrival as best he could and so far he hadn’t seen any sign of David.

The warning bell rang, announcing that students had five minutes to get to class and the quad cleared out faster than a kegger after the cops show up. Matt watched them go with a deep feeling of unease. Had Bateman been here and he’d missed him somehow?

He was starting to think about packing it in, maybe he’d find some excuse to ask the office secretary for the boy’s class schedule or something equally drastic, when he spotted David hustling up the walk toward Jefferson. The teenager had a couple textbooks balanced in his left hand and the blue duffel bag Matt had seen the night before clutched in his right. Late as he was, he barely registered Matt’s presence, rushing past him without even a glance.

Matt gave David a moment and then followed him inside.

There was no sign of him on the first floor, so Matt headed upstairs. He could hear someone cursing repeatedly somewhere down the second floor hallway, so he

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