Todos os capítulos de Thirty Days To Doomsday:My Cheating Ex Begs At My Vault Door: Capítulo 21 - Capítulo 24

POV: Odalys I have learned that a gun is very loud in a room made of concrete.Mattias sat up on the narrow bed. He did it slowly, in one smooth, boneless motion, like a puppet drawn upright on a string. The sheets slid off him. His head turned toward the glass partition, toward the light, toward the five people on the other side of it, and the thing behind his eyes did not recognize any of us.His eyes were the wrong color. That was what I could not stop seeing. They had been brown, ordinary, a little bloodshot. Now a pale film had washed across them, the milky, cooked-egg white I remembered from a stairwell, and the pupils floated in it like specks of pepper."Mattias?" Pim's voice came out tiny. Ingrid had her hand clamped over the child's mouth, her face turned into her sister's hair. "Uncle Mattias?""Don't look, sweetheart," Greta said. "Don't look. Look at Papa."Mattias rose from the bed.He did not run. That was the one mercy, if mercy is the word. Whatever had taken him was

POV: OdalysThe chime came on the ninth night, just after midnight.I was in the control room, because I was always in the control room by then. The others had gone to bed. Ferran had taken to dozing in a chair by the radio with a blanket over his knees, and he was snoring when the sound rang out, a clear, polite note, the north hatch lever being pulled. He woke up with a snort and nearly fell off the chair."Cameras," I said.On the north wall monitor, crouched against the third boulder in a thin gray rain, was a man I recognized.It took me a moment. He had changed a great deal in nine days. His expensive coat was ripped from collar to hem and black with mud. One shoe was missing. A long scratch ran down his cheek, crusted with dried blood, and his tall, stooped frame had folded in on itself like a collapsed tent. But there was no mistaking those slow, tired, intelligent eyes."Ambrose Whitlock," I said."The husband?" Ferran came up behind me, rubbing his face. "The one from the w