Chapter 31Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 1977It was starting to look like Grogan was going to cheat death.
His attack on the Beacon kids had happened three nights ago, and Lydia and E.Q. had not even sent him to the police yet. It wasn't at all what Cary had expected.
Cary had thought that once E.Q. saw what Grogan had done, and realized what he'd been about to do, Grogan would go away. Surely, Lydia and E.Q. would ship him to the cops, who would probably fry him in the electric chair. So what if Grogan hadn't actually killed anyone? He'd tried to, that was for sure.
Instead, Grogan was not only alive and well, but still in the house. He was shut in his bedroom and forbidden to come out except to use the bathroom, but that was the worst of it.
If anything, the rest of the family seemed
