Chapter Fifty-Eight
6:38 PM
Temperature: 75 degrees
Winds: 105 MPH
Pressure: 28.89 bars
Rain: 2.79 inches
Alfred ignored the pain in his ankle as he took the stairs as quickly as his legs would carry him. He rounded the corner and practically ran into the doorframe as he stopped at the entrance to the parlor. She held the lamp in shaky hands that sent the light trembling along the walls.
“What is it?”
His heart raced as he waited for her to answer, but all she could do was point at his feet. He looked down. It took a moment for him to make sense of the way the floor shimmered in the lamp light. He spun around toward the door at the front of the house but could only make out the outline of the windows that looked out onto the street. He splashed through the water that was now at the
