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“The boy you were—”

A hard shake of her head “No Forget it” She sed “The lights were on when I went inside, but I couldn’t find anyone” But she’d smelled a thick, hard odor

Blood and death

“I found my dad first He was in the hallway His throat had been ripped open” So much blood She hadn’t screamed when she’d seen him She should have, she’d even tried, but her breath had been gone

She’d dropped to her knees next to hiun had still been in his hands Her dad never loaded the thing so it hadn’t done hiers skated down her cheek and Dee realized she’d dropped her gaze His hand curled under her chin and he forced her to look at hiain

Better him than the past “I found my sister next” She paused, felt the pain “She was seven”

They’d killed her in her bedrooht there next to Sara’s pretty pink bed and her tall, white doll house

“Soet off on children’s blood They think it er,” he said “Dee, look at me”

She was, but she could still see Sara “She used to drive me crazy I was so much older and—” And Simon probably didn’t care He didn’t want to knohat a bitch she’d been to her kid sister Didn’t want to know that she’d run straight to Sara’s roo her chest When she’d found Sara, she’d fallen

The screa her

“I screa”

So stupid

“They would have heard you the minute you entered the house,” Simon said and his face hardened “The bastards were just playing with you”

She knew that now They’d let her find the bodies, let the terror and grief break her, and they’d crept out to watch her Sick, twisted freaks

Then they’d attacked

“Their mouths were stained with blood When I saw their teeth, I-I didn’t believe what I was seeing at first”

Because ould believe vahtered your fa for you, little Sandra Dee, waiting so long”

Dee juers “What? What the hell did you just say?”

His fingers fell away “I said they aiting for you, probably trying to make sure you were alone before they attacked It’s the way the bastards work”

Yeah, it was

“How did you get away?”