Chapter 30
“Come on, let’s get him up. William, can you stand?”
John stayed still on the ground, not wanting to risk opening his eyes. His head pounded, and his jaws and teeth ached.
“We’re going to have to help him. Liam, get the other arm. Careful of his ribs.”
John did look then, and he had to clench his jaws to keep the retching from starting up again. Not much time could have passed. William’s nose was still bleeding quite freely.
William’s head rolled bonelessly on his shoulders when Carl and Liam finally managed to get him off the ground. Marie and Craig were gone, and almost everyone else had moved far away from this end of the park.
John closed his eyes again, wanting to ignore it all, to pretend it had never happened.
He’d never seen anything so horrible, and he was respon
