House of Sighs
Beg and I’ll give you what you need.
How sweet that would be.
Power.
Wes gestured to his daughter’s corpse. “Look at my girl.”
Michael, Jack, and Sarah tilted their heads towards the kitchen doorway, though Michael’s eyes remained pinched shut. Wes noticed this and stepped closer. He knew the kid could feel his shadow over his bruised and shaking form, knew he could smell the engine oil sweating from his pores. “Open your eyes, faggot.”
In Michael’s mind, waves crashed on white sand, the tide turning red. Limbs tumbled onto the shoreline and crabs scuttled from their burrows, danced sideways across the beach to feast. Ripping, tearing, nibbling.
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