Mosquito Man by Jeremy Bates

Author:Jeremy Bates
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781988091327
Publisher: Ghillinnein Books
Published: 2019-02-12T22:00:00+00:00

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“We need to get to the cabin before he comes back,” Rex said quietly but urgently. He had gotten out of the pickup truck and now stood in the forest, peering into the cab.

Tabitha was thinking the same thing. Whoever that man was, he had already killed two people, possibly three, and they needed to return to the cabin ASAP until they figured out what the hell they were going to do.

She shoved open her door, the movement causing pain to flare where she’d struck her head in the crash. Grimacing, she climbed out, her jellied legs nearly collapsing beneath her.

“Come on, Ellie,” she said, reaching for her daughter. “Give me your hand.”

They met Rex and Bobby back on the road. Rex shone the Maglite on the person lying unmoving on his stomach on the wet mud and gravel.

“Jesus, it’s a cop!” he exclaimed.

“What’s he doing out here?” Tabitha asked. Then with a surge of hope: “Could he know about the maniac? Did he come to help? Are there others?”

Rex didn’t reply, and the deep silence of the night seemed to answer that last question.

“Is he dead?” Bobby asked timidly.

“Don’t look at him,” Rex said.

“Bobby, come here,” Tabitha said. When the boy joined her, she turned him and Ellie around so they faced the forest.

“Why can’t I look, Mommy?” Ellie asked.

“You don’t need to,” she said simply.

Tabitha heard Rex roll the police officer onto his back. She glanced over her shoulder. The man was in his late fifties, with a lived-in face and a rather large nose. His Eisenhower patrol jacket, zipped to the neck, had been torn open across the abdomen and appeared to be stained with blood.

Rex checked for a pulse and said, “He’s alive!”

Tabitha said, “What should we do?”

“Take the kids to the cabin. I’ll be right behind you.”

“We’re not leaving you—”

“Go! I’ll be right behind you.”

“Guys, come on,” she said, ushering Ellie and Bobby along the road. She could see the candlelit windows of the cabin blinking in and out from behind the trunks of the trees they passed. They had been moving at a swift trot, but when they reached the driveway Tabitha’s nerve left her, and she led Ellie and Bobby at a full sprint until they reached the rickety porch. The woman’s body, she saw in horror, was no longer covered by the quilt. Thankfully the kids didn’t immediately notice this in the dark, and she got them inside before they did.

“What if the monster comes back here too?” Ellie asked, her cheeks flushed.

“That wasn’t a monster, sweetie,” Tabitha said, trying to catch her breath. “It was just a bad man.”

“Do you promise?”

“Monsters aren’t real.”

“This one was.”

“No it wasn’t. Now I want you and Bobby to go upstairs and…get under your beds.”

“That’s where the monster lives!” Ellie protested.

“Ellie, for the last time, monsters aren’t real!” Tabitha clamped her mouth shut, knowing this was an argument she wasn’t going to win. “Now listen to me, young lady, you and Bobby go upstairs and, well, just get in your beds if you won’t go under them.

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