23:50
The darkness of the apartment was illuminated by bright flashes of light from the large flat screen TV.
Valerie sat in the middle of the living room floor, Kingston dozing off on one side of her and Michael munching snacks on the other while Sniffles purred asleep in his little bed.
The low-volume, fast action movie on the screen wasn’t being watched, Valerie and Michael were merely staring at the screen, both their minds far off and deep in troubling thoughts.
Valerie knew she ought to send both guys to bed, seeing as they were only awake this late because she couldn’t sleep, but the truth was that she was s**t scared.
If Michael and Kingston weren’t beside her at that moment, Val knew that every shadow would turn into a monster and every sound into the sinister laugh of evi
