Middle of the Night by Riley Sager EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Riley Sager
- Language: English
- Genre: Horror
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Scriiiiiiiitch.
I wake with a start, unnerved by the sound zipping across the dark
room. It echoes off the walls and snakes back to me in multiple waves. I lie
in bed, completely still, eyes wide open, until the noise fades.
Not that it was ever there to begin with.
Decades of experience have taught me that it was just in my head.
Dream, memory, and hallucination all at once. My first since coming back
to this house. Honestly, I’m surprised it took so long, especially with the
anniversary of what happened here fast approaching.
Sitting up, I look to the clock on the nightstand, hoping it reads closer to
dawn than midnight. No such luck. It’s only quarter after two. I’ve got a
long night of no sleep ahead of me. With a sigh, I reach for the notebook
and pen I keep next to the clock. After much squinting in the darkness, I
find a fresh page and scribble four frustrating words.
Had The Dream again.
I toss the notebook back onto the nightstand, followed by the pen. It
lands with a clack against the notebook’s cover before rolling onto the
carpet. I tell myself to leave the pen there until morning. That nothing will
happen to it overnight. But the bad thoughts arrive quickly. What if the pen
leaks, its midnight-black ink staining the cream-colored carpet? What if I’m
attacked in the middle of the night and the only thing I can use to defend
myself is an uncapped Bic, which now sits out of reach?
That second one, as alarming as it is improbable, pulls me out of bed. I
grab the pen and set it on the notebook. There. Much better.
Anxiety soothed—for now—I’m about to crawl back under the covers
when something outside catches my attention.
A light.
Not unusual for Hemlock Circle. Despite the lack of streetlights, it’s
never completely dark here. Light spills through bay windows onto
immaculate front lawns and brightens second-floor bedrooms before the sun
rises and long after it sets. The sconces flanking the Chens’ front door burn
from dusk to dawn, warding off both trespassers and the bats that
occasionally try to roost in the eaves. All summer long, the Wallaces’
backyard pool glows an alien blue. At Christmas, lights twinkle at five of
the six homes in the neighborhood, including the Patels’, who put theirs up
at Diwali and don’t take them down until a new year begins.
Then there are the garage lights.
Every house has them.
A pair of motion-activated security lights centered above the garage
doors that glare like headlights when triggered. In the evenings, they flick
on and off around the cul-de-sac with the frequency of fireflies as residents
return from work in the waning light, go out to fetch the mail, haul
recycling bins to the curb.
As it gets closer to midnight, a few will continue to spring to life. When
deer skulk through the neighborhood on their way to the woods. Or when
Fritz Van de Veer sneaks out for a cigarette after his wife, Alice, has gone to
bed.
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