The boy didn't answer.
The silence didn't surprise Bruce. He figured the boy was in shock, unable to imagine what trauma the boy has suffered from seeing that thing. Carefully trying not to further frighten the boy, he gently closed the door.
He rubbed the back of his neck, trying to decide where to continue looking for Louise. Pacing up and down the landing, he kept glimpsing Helen's body lying at the bottom of the stairs. It kept him constantly wondering whether he was going to find Louise's lifeless corpse somewhere in her own house.
A sudden noise from the kitchen made him rush down the stairs.
Reaching the kitchen, he saw the back door swaying gently in the cool night breeze. Afraid of what he was going to find, he slowly left the bright light of the kitchen, half expecting to fin
