Chapter 99

Andrew swallows hard, nodding emphatically.

Henry also nods, pointing the bat at his father's face. He asks the last question he needs to decide how to help Abigail.

"Were you the man who took care of her?

Andrew nods once again.

Henry opens a wide smile, holding the bat harder. He does not look away, he does not show any sign that he is happy with his father's response, even so, the blue eyes increase when the son raises his arm in which he holds the object and condemns him to the nightmare of the child he ruined. "You were the faceless man.

Fast enough not to regret it, his arm descends at a strange angle, throwing the baseball bat against Andrew's face. The lenses of the glasses break, tearing the eyelids closed by instinct. The face becomes reddish, even more flaccid, twisted by the scream that erupts through the man's mouth.

There are two blows besides this one, and the blood that splashes from the broken nose, the smeared teeth and the crack