Devourer of Souls
“You don’t know what my dad’s done since then, to us . . . and God, to Emma. He’s never done that sorta stuff before and now he’s . . . he’s . . . doin things, the kinda things make you wanna . . . ”
I held myself very still; mouth clamped shut, stomach roiling. The implications set my teeth on edge and made me feel like vomiting.
Jake had started rocking back and forth, his teeth chattering, as if he were gripped by a bone-deep cold. “He’s never done them things before, ever. But that’s all he’s done since that night. He lost his job at the mill and he don’t never sleep no more . . . . just drinks and bounces round the house and goes out back and pretends he’s huntin’ VC, snappin’ shots fro
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