Chapter Fifteen
Thea gaped as much as the tape would allow as Greg settled on the couch arm behind her sister, pistol pointed at the baby’s head.
“Everyone stop and sit where you are and shut the f**k up!” Greg shouted in a voice that Thea didn’t recognize at all. “I will shoot her. Then I will shoot her mother and her aunt.”
There was a rush of noise as everyone who had been standing sank to the floor. And Marilyn, who tried to duck beside her stool, pulled it over and just sat behind it.
“Shoot ’em all,” Sarah croaked in the quiet lull.
“You are by far the most expendable person in the room,” Greg said. “Don’t make me notice you.”
In a matter of seconds, the only sounds to be heard were the gurgling smacks Lily was making and the sobs of Emmy, who had burst into tears.
“If you don
