CHAPTER TEN
Steven read each article twice over. He can’t believe what he’s seeing. What reason could there possibly be for his father to have such a fortress locked away in his home? Steven imagines the room before they’d taken everything out of it. He pictures the crossbows, all the arrows, the knives, and even the rope. He can’t help but to imagine that same rope, being used to tie up any of these women he read about.
Steven wonders if the same knives he’s used to skin rabbits for the past few weeks were ever used to slice a throat or cut off an arm. The thought makes Steven sick to his stomach. He read on about the stabbings and dismembering of girls' bodies. He can’t help but remember in detail, every part of Misty’s body that he’d helped to carry up the ladder and out of that awful
