CHAPTER 42 — Monster
Carolyn
For a few seconds after the boys ran, the alley fell silent, the deafening kind of silence that was so awkward and unpleasant that you wished the ground would swallow you.
I stood frozen where I was, staring at the boy lying motionless against the brick wall. My heart pounded hard enough that I could feel each beat in my throat.
I didn’t mean to do that, I didn’t mean to hurt the child, I only wanted to stop him from hurting the little girl, it was just a shove, that was it. But the memory of the moment replayed in brutal clarity, my hand touching his shoulder, the sudden explosion of air and his body flying like a pack of chips.
Then the sound, that horrible, sickening c***k when he hit the wall, it was so horrifying it almost made me throw up.
“Oh Godde
