Souls At Zero (A Dark Psychological Thriller) (47 page)

CHAPTER SIXTY-FOUR

The second bomb went off just as Edger ran out through the front doors, and he felt the foundations of the house begin to collapse beneath his feet, the ceilings already crashing down behind him like an earthquake had hit the house.

Kaitlin stood at the edge of the driveway, where the tarmac met the grass of the front lawn. Edger ran to her, picked her up and kept running, out onto the grass for at least two hundred yards, before he stopped and turned around.

A huge crack had split the house practically in half, and the two halves were falling in on each other, making a colossal noise as brick and plaster crumbled to the ground, sending plumes of smoke and dust up into the night sky.

The Red Falcon Country Club was no more.

I hope you're satisfied, Declan. Wherever you are.

"Daddy?"

Edger looked down to see his daughter facing the other way. He turned around to see a group of ghostly figures standing about fifty yards away, as they stared towards the crumbling Mason house. "Jesus."

The kids from the basement. Black must have got them out. They all stood naked, over a dozen of them.

"Who are they?" Kaitlin asked.

"Lost souls," Edger replied quietly.

"Should we help them?"

"No, there's nothing we can do for them. Other people will help them."

Sirens were beginning to echo in the distance. It wouldn't be long before the authorities arrived to see what was going on.

They couldn't exactly leave through the front gate, so Edger elected to grab Kaitlin in his arms again, and run back up through the forest to where he and Black had first infiltrated the estate earlier.

He didn't stop running until he got to the gate that led to the dirt track where Black's car was parked further down. After helping Kaitlin over the gate, he jumped over himself, walked down the dirt track a bit, then stopped and turned around.

He took the remote detonator out of his pocket as he looked towards the forest.

"Just in case."

He pressed the button on the small box.

Exactly one second later, a massive explosion occurred at the Mason house, an explosion that lit up the whole night sky and surrounding forest, sending a fireball followed by a great mushroom cloud of smoke and dust up into the air.

Kaitlin clung to his leg as the shockwaves blew through the trees, the huge noise of the explosion still echoing around the place like thunder.

Rubble rained down over the trees like an asteroid storm, crashing through the branches and thumping to the forest floor.

We did it, Black…

"Can we go now, Daddy?"

Edger looked down at his daughter, grateful beyond words that he had somehow managed to save the one person who meant the most to him in his life, the one person who
deserved
saving in this whole damn shitstorm. He leaned down and lifted her up into his arms. "Let's go."

"Where do we
go
now, Daddy?"

Edger hugged his daughter tighter to him. "Home, love. We go home."

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Neal Martin is the author of seven novels and a number of bestselling non-fiction books.
Souls At Zero
is his first crime thriller novel.

Neal is a former professional martial artist and self defence instructor, now a full time author. He lives in Northern Ireland with his wife and kids.