Locke 2 (Blackwater Boys #4)
The House
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T he door to her bedroom creaked open.
His footsteps were slow.
He stumbled.
He muttered.
He cursed us all to hell.
He said he’d find us on the other side.
We were never going to escape him.
In this life. In the afterlife. We were his, and everything he gave us, he would take away.
Then silence.
Cold, long silence.
It didn’t last.
As I lay there, under the bed, unmoving, my tears running down my face, forming a puddle around me, I felt something change in the air. A wicked energy that made my heart collapse in my chest.
I knew before I’d even seen or heard him, that he had found her. And in that instant, my world broke apart.
Aurora screamed my name.
“KALI!”
He said something.
I didn’t know what.
I would never know what.
It would haunt me for the rest of my life.
She screamed my name, and a bullet screamed back, silencing her.