Kin by Kealan Patrick Burke

Author:Kealan Patrick Burke [Burke, Kealan Patrick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horror, Thrillers, Fiction
ISBN: 9781587672194
Google: m_ZKXwAACAAJ
Amazon: B006RL7Z8Q
Publisher: Cemetery Dance Publications
Published: 2011-03-05T05:00:00+00:00

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Despite what the boy had said earlier, after talking long into the night, Louise convinced him to stay. The later it got, the less tolerant Wayne seemed to grow. Aware that she had yet to tell him about getting fired from her job, she advised him to go to bed with a promise to follow soon after. Then she cleared the coffee table of their cups and trash and dragged it to the far wall, exposing the stained narrow space of carpet between the sofa and the TV.

All the while, Pete stared at her.

Louise sighed. "I know you're hurtin'," she told him. "But I'm not sure this is such a good idea. Do you know how dangerous this is? You're just a boy. And what if you're wrong and it really was the doctor? You might just end up hurtin' innocent folk."

"It weren't the doctor," he replied. "It weren't. That much I know for sure."

She shook her head. "Why not just go to the police? Tell them to talk to the girl. Surely if you're right, she can tell them what she knows and back you up."

"I'm guessin' she don't remember much, not after what they did to her. I'm guessin' her mind didn't let her see all of what happened, so she'd be protected, like when you have a real bad dream but soon's you wake up it starts goin' away until you can't remember it no more?"

Louise nodded, and smoothed a hand over the cushions. She felt helpless, as if of a sudden she was being given a chance to do something right but for the life of her couldn't figure out how to make it happen. All she did know was that she could not let this child go through with what he had in mind. If it turned out he was right, then he would almost certainly get himself hurt, or worse. As bad as it had been to have to live with the guilt of abandoning him, she would not survive long knowing she had let him go to his death. But what could she do?

"I'm goin' to get you some blankets. I'll be right back."

He nodded, and lowered his gaze.

He was not going to stay here just because she begged him to, of that she was certain. He owed her nothing, not after what she'd done to him. So what were the alternatives? She could alert the police, tell them what the boy had told her. But then they'd want to see him, talk to him, find out what he knew. They might take him in and try to control what became of him. Courts might become involved, the social services people. Sure, he was of age, but his slow development might be the trump card the courts used to ensure Louise was not granted guardianship. And if not that, then they would use her unstable past and unreliable present against her. She had no job, no prospects, no way of taking care of him.

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