“Did you think I’d forgotten? It is my birthday, after all! The fact is, I don’t feel very festive.”
is“Well, we’ll see. I’m going down to the kitchen to bake you a cake.”
She’d only been gone a moment when I heard her scream my name.
I rushed to the stairs and flung myself sideways as a bullet thumped into the landing wall. The shot had been suppressed, maybe that was why I hadn’t detected anything before.
Alice! Oh my God! They’d better not have harmed her.
Alice! Oh my God! They’d better not have harmed her.I heard footsteps on the stairs. No matter how stealthily an intruder came up, the risers had been constructed to creak a warning. I realised with a sinking feeling that I was without a g*n in the bedroom. If ever there was a time to shift shape, it was now. But there was not en
