“Evan, hey, Evan you hear me?” Dez asked.
Evan nodded.
“What the hell just happened back there?”
“You saw it, didn’t you? You saw… him.”
“I saw something.”
The police sirens were close, just a block or two away. Evan moved in a daze past curious neighbors as Dez wheeled alongside him.
“What about your mother, man?”
“She’s gone.”
Dez studied the bloody splotches on Evan’s clothes.
“Jesus,” Dez said. “Jesus.”
“I gotta go.”
“To where?”
“Anywhere but here.”
Evan saw the lights from the cops and the first responders at the bottom of the street.
Evan tried to will some normality back into his face, planting a foot to leave when Dez called out:
Evan looked back at Dez.
“Somebody might be coming for me because of what happened, Dez. I’ve got to head south ‘cause there’s something I need to find. Something important my mom and dad buried a long time ago. I’m going to get that and then if they come for me I’m gonna start a war.”
“So let’s get the party started and get your shit. If the black hats follow, let ‘em follow. I’ll carry my own weight. I can give as good as I receive. There ain’t no quit in me and I’ll go as far you want me to go.”
Evan paused.
“Why?”
“Cause neither of us got nothin’ here no more and you look like you could use a real friend, Evan. Besides, fellas like us, strays, ‘cause that’s what we are, we gotta stick together.”
There was something in Evan’s face, a change in the way he held his head that Dez thought looked a bit like guarded hope.
Evan nodded in Dez’s direction and then he cast a final look back at the rowhouse.
He saw something, little more than a shadow really, a ghostly face pressed to the glass.
Watching him from an upstairs window.
It looked like Gideon.
Evan blinked and when he looked back whatever had been there was gone.
His jaw locked and he set off down the street with Dez at his side as the sun broke overhead.
THE END
About The Author
George S. Mahaffey Jr. is a practicing lawyer and screenwriter. His script HEATSEEKERS was bought by Paramount with Michael Bay producing and Timur Bekmambetov directing. In addition, he’s sold or written scripts for Arnold Kopelson, Jason Blum, Benderspink, director Louis Leterrier, and is the creator of IN THE DUST, an action-horror graphic novel in the vein of 30 DAYS OF NIGHT to be published by Top Cow with art by Christian Duce, and the author of BLOOD RUNNERS, Books 1 and 2, and the horror novellas, AMITYVILLE: ORIGINS, AMITYVILLE: REVENANTS, RAZORBACKS, RAZORBACKS II, RAZORBACKS III, THE PACT, VERTICAL CITY (Books 1-4), as well as the THUNDER ROAD action series (Books 1 and 2).
www.georgemahaffey.com
Table of Contents
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
About The Author