Devoted by Dean Koontz EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Dean Koontz
- Genre: Supernatural Thrillers, Horror Literature & Fiction, Horror
- Publish Date: 31 March 2020
- Size: 3 MB
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- Published Date: March 31, 2020
Three years after the accident, Megan Bookman’s heart and mind
were in a good place, although occasionally anxiety afflicted her, a
feeling that time was running out, that a sinkhole might at any
moment open under her. This wasn’t intuition at work, but just the
consequence of being widowed at thirty. A love that she’d thought
would endure, a man she had believed would grow old with her: All
was taken away without warning. This current sense that somewhere
bells were tolling toward her final hour would pass; it always did.
She stood in the doorway of her only child’s bedroom, watching
him at his computer with its array of associated equipment, as he
researched whatever currently fascinated him.
Woodrow Bookman, Woody to everyone, had never spoken a
word in his eleven years of life. At birth and for a few years thereafter,
he cried, but not once since he’d turned four years old. He laughed,
although seldom at anything that was said to him or at any comical
sight. The cause of his amusement was often internal and a mystery
to his mother. He had been diagnosed with a rare form of autism,
although in truth the doctors didn’t know what to make of him.
Fortunately, he had none of the most challenging behavior
associated with autism. He wasn’t prone to emotional meltdowns,
wasn’t inflexible. As long as he was in the company of those he knew,
he never recoiled when touched or suffered mentally from physical
contact, though he found strangers suspect and often frightening. He
listened intently to everything that was said to him, and he was at
least as obedient as Megan had been in childhood.
He didn’t go to school, but neither was he homeschooled. Woody
was the ultimate autodidact. He taught himself to read only a few
months after his fourth birthday, and he was reading at a college level
three years later.
Megan loved Woody. How could she not? He had been conceived
in love. His heart began beating as he formed within her. As far as
she was concerned, it beat in sync with hers all these years later.
Besides, he was as cute as any kid in a cookie commercial and, in
his own way, affectionate. Although he allowed himself to be hugged
and kissed, he neither hugged nor kissed in return.
At the most
unexpected moments, however, he reached out and put a hand on
hers, or he touched her jet-black hair and then his own, as though to
say that he knew he had received it from her.
He seldom made eye contact, but when he did, his eyes
sometimes glimmered with unshed tears. Lest she think that he might
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