THE MAN BESIDE HER MOVED STEALTHILY, but that wasn’t what made her open her eyes in the dark. If he had just acted normally, she wouldn’t have been curious.
‘Wh—’ was all she managed to let out.
Quick as a flash, his hand was clasped over her mouth.
‘Ssh. Don’t move.’
He landed on the floor softly, like a panther walking on the underbrush of a dense forest. He crouched down in the darkness and by feel removed a slat of the floorboard. He retrieved what looked to her like a loaded gun, not that she knew for sure. He half-c****d it.
He eyed her, put a finger up on his lips, and mouthed, ‘Don’t move.’
He crossed the room silently. She wondered whether he was sleepwalking or having a nightmare or losing the plot entirely. He pressed his back against the wall, opened the bedroom door just
