The man Jack paused on the landing
Chapter 1
How no body came to the Graveyard
there's was a hand in the darkness and it held a knife the knife had a handle of polished black bone,and a blade finer even know you had been cut,not immediately.
To that house to do,and both the blade and the handle were wet.
The street door was still open,just a little, where the night-time mist slithered and twined into the house through the open the door.
The man Jack paused on the landing.wish his left of his Black coat,and with it he wiped off the knife and his the handkerchief away.the hunt was almost over.he had left the woman in her bed,the man of the bedroom floor,the older child in her brightly coloured bedroom surrounded by toys and half-finished models.that only left the little one,a baby barely a toddler,to take care of. One.more and his task would be done.
He flexed his fingers.the man Jack,was above all things,a professional,or so he told himself, and we would now allow himself to smile until the job was comoleted.
his hair was dark and his eyes were dark and he wore black leather gloves of the thinnest lambskin.
The toddler's room was at the very top of the house.the man Jack walked up the stairs,his feet silent on the carpetting.then he pushed open the attic door,and he walked in.his shoes were black leather,and they were polished to such a shine that they looked like dark mirrors:you could see the moon reflected in them,tiny and half full
The real moon shone through the casement window.the man Jack would not need much light the moonlight was enough. It would do.
He could make out the shape of the child in the cot head and limbs and torso.
The cot had hight,slatted sides,prevent the child from getting out.Jack lead over,raised his right and.....and then he lowered his hand the shape in the cot was a teddy bear.there was no child.
The man Jack's eyes were accustomed to the dim moonlight,so he had no desire to turn on an electric light. And light was not that important,after all.He had other skills.
The man Jack sniffed the air.he ignore the scents that had come into the room with him,dismissed the
Bukas na Yung iba hehe😁
