Blackwater Val
“Who took her? What happened?”
“I couldn’t see,” George said, “couldn’t see them.” Richard let him sag down the wall and propped him there. He sprang toward the Cornish staircase but halted, indecision suffocating him, raw panic driving him outside and down the front porch steps instead.
Heart hammering in his chest, he tried to draw breath into his lungs and found he couldn’t. His eyes swept back and forth for any sign of her. Anything. He searched wildly around the house, yelling her name, looked through all the bushes. Up and down the street. On the verge of screaming, Richard ran back inside. He staggered, his legs almost giving out, then he dove at the telephone and upended the entire s
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