Come with me.”Īllen clapped him on the back and turned him around just as the security guard noticed him. Just as he was about to announce himself, Allen came sweeping out from a doorway on the left. He wiped the rain from his brow as he walked towards an elderly security guard hunched over the front desk. Allen seemed sure that this boy-this orphaned eight-year-old child-was the perfect subject for Thomas’s project. A culmination of everything he’d planned for the last year…if the boy worked out. The streetlights gave the sheets of rain an eerie glow, or maybe that was just Thomas’s imagination. It was almost apocalyptic out there-lightning chasing across the sky, thunder shaking the ground with each boom.
Thomas shook off his umbrella, looking back at the storm raging outside the children’s home.
Trigger warning: This book contains graphic violence and very dark humor. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.Ĭover and Interior Formatting by We Got You Covered Book Design This book is a work of fiction and does not represent any individual living or dead. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), without the prior written permission of the publisher.
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