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Day 4 and I’ve got an extract for you.
In the third bedroom now, and here was his prize. What had gone before was merely a precursor. This was the reason he had come.
Naked, save for the plastic covers taped around his feet, and white cotton gloves pulled snug on large hands, he paced the room like a caged animal. He felt good, so loose and alive, a busy night’s work behind him, the best part yet to come. As he moved he kept his face turned towards the sleeping girl, his eyes as unblinking and glassy as those of a reptile. His tongue snaked out to moisten thin lips.
He stopped pacing and stood quite still for a few moments, allowing himself to focus. Sweat slid from his body as though his flesh were made of glass. After running a hand across his forehead, he smiled crookedly and moved among the shadows towards the girl’s bed, feet hissing on thick carpet. She was quite beautiful, strawberry-blonde hair draped around her oval head like a silken halo, lips parted as if preparing for a kiss. Moonlight bleeding through her bedroom window cut a pale slash across her arm. He stared at her exposed flesh, and what he saw there took his breath away. For although the room was warm, her skin had erupted in a rash of goosebumps.
She had felt the chill of his approach.
The girl was dreaming, eyes flickering just as her mother’s had an hour or so earlier. The rapid eye movement fascinated him. Softly he called her name. His smooth voice whispered like a gently flowing stream. Twelve-year-old Laura Rogers stirred in her sleep but did not awaken.
“Laura?”
The voice like a sigh came again. This time he gently shook her warm body. The touch was electric, his long thin fingers jerking reflexively, prompting an explosion of images in the darker regions of his mind. His hand maintained the contact longer than was necessary. Only the thickness of the thin cotton gloves separated them. It was still almost too much to bear.
The girl began to emerge from her slumber. She blinked the fog of sleep away, drank him in with widening eyes, yet said nothing. Fear had eroded her capacity for speech.
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Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tony-J-Forder/e/B01N4BPT65
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