CHAPTER FOURTEEN
The man smiled as he headed down I-86 toward Bearmouth. Every so often, he peered into the back seat at the girl trembling there, and his smile widened.
Her name was Eileen Devers. Only nineteen. She was from Colorado Springs. She’d been all over, supposedly, on a grand hitchhiking trip, first east, and now heading west. The things he had gleaned from her during the last half hour had been interesting indeed. She was someone who believed in light overpowering darkness.
As he tapped his fingers on the door, he wondered if tonight would change her mind.
But she was a predator, all the same. Oh, maybe she didn’t act it yet, but one day, she would. She’d destroy. They all destroyed.
“It’s for your own good, Eileen,” he said to her, breaking the silence. “It can be dangero
