Night Screams by Martin H. Greenberg

Author:Martin H. Greenberg [Greenberg, Martin H.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 0451455126
Publisher: Roc / New American Library
Published: 1995-12-31T21:00:00+00:00

3

4:29 P.M.

“End of the line, Markie-boy,” Angelo said when he saw the pickup truck slow for a turn into a driveway. “Turn around and let’s get the fuck out of here.” Both he and Mark stared down the one lane dirt drive lined with snow-covered pines and high, dirt-streaked snow-plow ridges.

Mark braced his hands on the steering wheel as he pulled a quick U-turn across the road and then stopped the car opposite the driveway entrance. His face was pinched tight with concentration as he looked down the darkening, tree-lined alley.

“You don’t think we should check it out first?” he asked.

Angelo shook his head tightly and said, “No way. I think you should get your ass out of here.” He looked thoughtfully down the driveway and added, “You have no idea what you might be getting yourself into.”

Mark gnawed on his lower lip while he considered. Then, after glancing up and down the road, he sucked in a deep breath and turned off the ignition. Pocketing the keys, he snapped open the car door and put one foot out onto the road.

“You can sit here and wait while I check it out,” he said, staring a moment at the screen of trees that blocked his view of whatever was down that road; then he glanced at his wristwatch. “I won’t be more than fifteen minutes or so.”

“The fuck you will!” Angelo stopped himself from lunging across the seat and grabbing Mark to force him back behind the steering wheel. With the heater turned off and the door open, cold air invaded the car, probing under Angelo’s coat collar and down his back like icy fingers. He couldn’t repress the shiver that wracked his body.

“Look, man,” Mark said in a trembling voice. “I don’t know where the fuck you’re coming from, but something . . . something really weird is going on here, and I have to check it out.” Again, he glanced down the driveway. “You can either sit here and freeze your ass off, or you can come with me.”

Angelo tempered his response and, smiling thinly, said, “Or you could leave the car running so I can have some heat.”

Mark smiled and shook his head. “Look, Frank, I’m not exactly saying I don’t trust you, but what’s to stop you from driving off once I’m gone?”

Angelo’s thin smile widened. “Nothing at all—except my word.”

“Why don’t you just come with me,” Mark said. “Look, we don’t have to go down the driveway. We can cut off across that field there and stay in the woods the whole time. No one’s gonna see us if we keep to the woods.”

“You got a description of the truck and where it is. Why not just give that to the cops.”

” ‘Cause I have to see what the hell they’re up to,” Mark answered.

“You’re full of shit, you know that?” Angelo said, shivering wildly inside his coat. He wondered which would be colder, sitting here in an unheated car or traipsing through the woods with this asshole do-gooder.

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