The Rising: Antichrist is Born
“While Ray was doing homework and his mother was reading or watching her favorite programs, Mr. Steele would secrete himself in his cozy hideaway, where his golfing and fishing knickknacks covered the walls.
Ray’s view of his father’s sanctuary had been skewed by the nature of his own visits there. He was not allowed in the den when his father wasn’t home, and when he was invited in, it never seemed to be for good news. Ray had never been punished there, but he had certainly endured his share of lectures and dressing-downs. Whenever he had lost significant privileges, been reprimanded, been grounded, it had happened as he sat across the desk from his imposing father.
And so it was that when his dad asked Ray at dinner to meet him in the den when his homework was done, Ray felt a rumbling in his gut. “What’s wrong? What’d I do now?”
His father leveled his eyes at the boy. “If I wanted to discuss it at the table, I wouldn’t invite you to the den, would I?”
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