The Mountain King (25 page)
“Over and out,” LaBrea said.
Sighing heavily, he eased back in the car seat and shook his head, desperately wishing that he could erase the memory of the bloody mayhem he had glimpsed inside the Newman house. He knew that eventually he was going to have to face it again, but he had decided to wait right here in the cruiser until more policemen showed up. Right now, there was no way he could deal with what he had seen—Polly Newman’s severed head, lying on the tiled floor. Her eyes had been wide open and staring up at him, and he wished to God he wasn’t positive he had seen her eyes blink . . . just once.
“Yeah—” he said in a trembling whisper as he hung up the radio microphone, leaned his head back against the car seat, and rubbed his eyes.
“Let’s just hope to hell it’s all over!”
The End
About the Author
Rick Hautala has published more than twenty books, including the million-copy plus, international bestseller
Nightstone,
as well as
Twilight Time, Little Brothers, Cold Whisper, Winter Wake, Impulse, Poltergeist: The Legacy
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The Hidden Saint,
and a short story collection,
Bedbugs.
With William Relling, he has co-written five screenplays, both originals and adaptations.
Born and raised in Rockport, Mass., Rick received his B.A. and MA. in English literature from the University of Maine, Orono. He is married and lives in southern Maine with his wife and two sons, Jesse (soon to be a student at Clark University) and Matti (a freshman at Westbrook High School). His oldest son, Aaron, is on his own, working with the progressive rock band Satellite Lot. Rick has been a full-time writer for nearly twenty years.
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