Page 115 of Pure Silence

Goldie wasn’t sure what he was expecting to happen.

Whatever it took to maybe not fucking die here in this shitty ass house with his boyfriend and the corpse of his boyfriend’s crazy ass dad would be great.

Goldie had already gotten his hopes up so many times, but he didn’t want to give up.

Not yet.

This had to work. This just had to.

Day’s eyes glassed over, and he laughed. He sang again, louder than before, but it was hard to understand him because he was laughing so frantically. “Nothing can for sin atone! Nothing but the blood of Jesus! Naught of good that I have done, nothing but the blood of Jesus! Nothing but the blood!”

“Shut up,” Jack snapped as he drew a gun from his hip.

“Nothing but the blood! Nothing but the blood!”

“I said shut the fuck up!” Jack roared, stalking toward Day.

Day kept laughing, almost hysterical now, and Jack hit him in the face with the butt of the gun. His head snapped to the side, the cut on his lip reopened, and his smile was bright red as he beamed at Goldie. “Oh, my darling angel, you’ll want to close your eyes now.”

“Why?” Goldie asked, honestly terrified from the unhinged look in Day’s dark eyes.

“Oh, my angel. A lot of people are going to die.”

Jack lowered the gun, and he turned to Lin to complain. “Do you hear this little psycho? Fuck, laughing like the goddamn Joker or something. He just wouldn’t shut up—”

Day’s long leg swung out and up, and he kicked Jack’s wrist holding the gun.

Jack’s arm jerked, and the gun went off.

The bullet hit Goldie right in the chest.

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Oh, my sweet boy. Of course I forgive you. I love you. Now, dispatch these vermin so you can lay me to rest and take your sweet angel home.

I’ll show you the way, son. I’ll protect him.

The knot is loose. You can free yourself.

Now go.

Day knew Goldie was going to be okay because Father said so, and he didn’t even look his way when the gun went off. Day used Jack’s shock as his moment to strike, and Day’s newly freed hands aimed the gun beneath Jack’s chin.

He forced him to pull the trigger.

“Jack!” Lin cried in horror. “I’m… I’m gonna call somebody! I’m gonna call somebody!”

Day let Jack’s body drop to the floor, and he stalked toward Lin.