Chapter 20
One of the doors creaked and rolled a few inches to the right.
Frigid dry air invaded the silent room, and brilliant white light cut through the black in front of Iris’s eyes.
The beam aimed straight back to the far wall, over the closed doors to the warehouse. Down along the floor, left and right across the empty store shelves pushed back out of the way.
“Not sure what you think you can do here,” Haga said, still outside the door. “Take all of us out and walk yourself down that mountain, I suppose.”
Silence, even from the warehouse and the group of children.
“The warehouse door is still closed,” Rita Hicks said, anger and frustration clear in her voice. “Unless Dale’s dumb ass managed to kill them all, they’re in there.”
Iris forced her finger to stay loose, flat against
