Cover Design by Elderlemon Design License Notes This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author Visit the author at http://www.kealanpatrickburke.com Four months to the day he first encountered the boy at Walmart, the last of Phil Pendleton’s teeth fell out. 1. The Scream When the child started screaming, Phil Pendleton had his arms loaded with chocolate bars and his girlfriend cooing in his ear. Later he would think of the moment prior to that klaxon-like intrusion as one of utter bliss, a rare occasion in which his customary concerns were in absentia. It was a Saturday, so he was off work and had woken up pleasurably late after a night of equally pleasurable lovemaking.
