The following is a short preview of the first page of chapter 1:
Bill turned the garden lights on. ‘What are you doing back there? You have no business here!’ He shouted. Next to his tall oak tree stood a cloaked man, he was dressed as black as the night.
The person in the garden didn’t react to his shouting. ‘I said: what are you doing in my backyard?!’ There was a loud, bumping noise coming from the stairs, and after that he heard his living room door slam shut. Somebody was inside his house and had been upstairs near his wife.
He didn’t want to go check who it was, but in order to protect his family he knew he had to. He tip-toed away from the kitchen, into the hallway. The hallway light was turned on, but he didn’t remember doing so. He raised his baseball bat when he got to the door to his living room, and slowly opened it.
To be continued...
