Death's Door by Meryl Sawyer Read Free Book Online Page B

font-size: 1.41667em; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.83em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 10%; page-break-before: always; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0% } .calibre20 { display: block; font-size: 1.41667em; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.83em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 10%; page-break-before: always; text-align: center; text-indent: 0% } .calibre21 { display: block; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 2em; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-align: justify } .calibre22 { display: block; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-align: right; text-indent: 0% } .calibre23 { display: block; margin-top: 2%; text-align: left; text-indent: 0% } .calibre24 { font-size: 1.125em } .calibre25 { display: block; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0% } .calibre26 { color: blue; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: underline } .calibre27 { display: block; font-size: 1.41667em; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.83em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 18%; page-break-before: always; text-align: center; text-indent: 0% } .calibre28 { font-size: 0.66667em } .calibre29 { display: block; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 5% } .calibre3 { font-size: 1em } .calibre30 { font-size: 0.75em } .calibre31 { display: block; page-break-after: always } .calibre32 { display: block; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 3%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0% } .calibre33 { display: block; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 1%; text-align: center; text-indent: 0% } .calibre34 { color: blue } .calibre4 { display: block; margin-top: 2% } .calibre5 { display: block; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0% } .calibre6 { display: block; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 1%; text-align: justify } .calibre7 { display: block; margin-top: 1% } .calibre8 { display: block; font-size: 1.41667em; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.83em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 6%; page-break-before: always; text-align: center; text-indent: 0% } .calibre9 { font-size: 0.79412em } .italic { font-style: italic } .mbppagebreak { display: block; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; page-break-after: always } .text { display: block; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 5pt; margin-right: 5pt; margin-top: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; page-break-before: always }
CHAPTER TWO

    How far away can a fly smell a dead body?

    M ADISON TEETERED , feeling light-headed, grabbed the back of the sofa for support and closed her eyes for a second, her fragile barrier of control slipping. Get a grip, she told herself. The air was so tight in her lungs that she could hardly breathe. But the thump-thump of her heart filled her skull and made it difficult to think. Even with her eyes closed, she kept seeing Erin’s lifeless body. She opened them and found the dark-haired man from the street gazing down at her.
    He handed her a cell phone and calmly said, “Call 911. I’m going to check the rest of the house just in case.”
    The man’s calm, cool attitude told Madison that she’d been mistaken. He really was trying to help her, as he’d said. He wasn’t the killer. That man was long gone but his evilness remained, hanging over the small house like a noxious cloud.
    Madison’s eyes dropped to the body prone on the carpet. “Don’t leave me.”
    The man touched her arm and prodded her in the direction of the kitchen. “Go out back. You’ll be safe.”
    Madison stumbled toward the kitchen, managed to open the door and lurched to an upright position on the other side. She gulped hard and air rasped down her throat, then thundered into her lungs. She swayed for a moment, the numbers