THE UNWILLING SON an absolutely gripping mystery thriller that will take your breath away by JANE ADAMS

Author:JANE ADAMS [ADAMS, JANE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Joffe Books psychological thrillers
Published: 2021-01-17T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-seven

Katie had been alone all day and when Nathan returned she was so relieved to have company that she forgot to be afraid of him.

‘Where have you been? I thought they must have caught you.’

‘Would you care?’ he asked. ‘Or would you just be afraid that no one would find you?’

‘Would you tell them?’ Katie asked anxiously. ‘If you were arrested, would you tell them I was here?’

‘Arrested for what?’

She shrugged. ‘You know.’

He said nothing and as she blinked he had shifted across the room, slipping off his jacket. He went into the little kitchen and began to prepare food for them both. Katie had begun to realize that much of the food he brought home was for her. He ate little, merely picking at his plate.

She followed him into the kitchen and took up position beside the door. ‘What are you?’ she asked again.

He hesitated, his gaze wandering back out into the curiously decorated basement. ‘I don’t know,’ he said softly. His eyes finally came to rest upon her face and she was struck by how rarely he chose to look right at her. When he did it was almost painfully intense.

‘He made me into something else,’ Nathan said. ‘But what he did wasn’t complete. While he was locked away like that he couldn’t finish it. Now he’s dead in this life and he’s sent his soul out to finish what he started. Finish making me into that other thing. He said I was an avatar. Like a messiah. The link between mankind and the angels. He said that it was a kind of evolution and that one day we would all be like this. The way he said that I was meant to be. But he and Daniel Morgan argued. Morgan said that I wasn’t right, that I wasn’t pure enough, but Harrison Lee went ahead anyway. He said that Morgan was wrong and finally Morgan agreed with him. I think Morgan had tried something like this already, but Lee said that he had failed.’

He hesitated again and then he led her back through to the main room and stood her beside the makeshift altar.

‘Seven is a sacred number. The number of movement and transformation. Three boys then and three boys now, that makes six.’

‘And the seventh?’

Katie thought she could guess the answer.

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