Edgewise by Graham Masterton

Author:Graham Masterton [Masterton, Graham]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horror
ISBN: 9780843954265
Publisher: Leisure Books
Published: 2006-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

She didn’t really believe that it was all over until they had arrived home, and she had run a deep foamy bath for them, and washed their hair, and dressed them up in their own pajamas, which had been lying neatly folded in their bedroom drawers for so long.

Then they sat around the kitchen table while she made them their favorite supper: Dutch potato scramble, with diced bacon, fried red potatoes, sliced red onions, and eggs. As a special treat she allowed Sergeant to come into the kitchen, too. He sat with his head in Tasha’s lap, his eyes rolled up in sheer pleasure while Tasha stroked his ears. Spongebob Squarepants was showing on the TV, Sammy’s favorite, and no evening could have been more normal, or warmer, or felt so complete.

“Mommy, are you going to grow your hair now?” asked Sammy.

“Yes—yes, I am,” said Lily. “In fact I think I’m going to grow it really long. The last time I grew it really long was at high school. I used to tie it in a ponytail.”

“I like you bald.”

“Well, I shaved my hair off for a reason. I did it to show people that I was never going to stop looking for you, no matter what.”

“Daddy said you didn’t really want us any more. He said you were glad to see the back of us.”

“I know he did. But he wasn’t very well. I think we have to forgive him, don’t you?”

Tasha said, “Would you forgive him if he was still alive?”

Lily broke four eggs into the skillet, and stirred them around. “Good question,” she said. She could tell that Tasha was growing up.

“Is there going to be a funeral?” asked Sammy.

“Yes. When the FBI have released Daddy’s body.”

“He was all in bits. They’ll have to put him back together again before they bury him.”

“Yes, they will. But they have people who are very good at doing that.”

“Do they sew them together, or do they use Crazy Glue?”

Dr. Flaurus had warned Lily that the children would want to talk about their experience, and that she shouldn’t try to discourage them, no matter how ghoulish it got.

“I guess they probably sew them.”

They sat down to eat. Sammy wolfed down his scramble as if he hadn’t been fed in a week, but Tasha only toyed with hers. Lily saw that she had tears in her eyes, and she reached across the table and held her hand.

“You’ll get over it, sweetheart. One day you’ll go to bed and you’ll realize that you haven’t thought about it, even once.”

“We had such a good time,” said Tasha, miserably. “It was almost like being in heaven.”

“I know. Your daddy only wanted to make you happy.”

“But we didn’t care about you. We hardly ever talked about you. How could we have been so mean?”

“You weren’t being mean. You were enjoying yourselves, that’s all. If I was down in Florida, swimming and horseback riding and going to Busch Gardens all the time, I wouldn’t want to think about snow, and school, and tidying my room.

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