The Vanishing
“He was on his knees, crouched over an open toilet, vomiting violently, his arms and legs shaking.
Through in the main room of the same floor Alison Spencer herself was flat on her stomach, her body twitching, a thin trickle of vomit coming from between her lips, her eyes closed. Her heart was still beating, but Stefan didn’t know that, because he had been unable to go anywhere near her from the moment she had clutched at her chest and rolled off her sofa on to the floor, gasping like she was ch...oking. He had watched in horror as she had implored him to help in a feeble, cracking voice, a hand stretched out to him. Then she had grasped the truth as he sat there immobile, refusing to go to her. She had accused him with a look of hatred, spitting out the words with rasping breaths, then keeled over on to her front and lay panting. He had only been able to move when she had stopped trying to speak, when her chest was no longer heaving, and though he knew then that he should have bent down and tested her vital signs, assured himself that she definitely was dead, he couldn’t do it.MoreLess
Through in the main room of the same floor Alison Spencer herself was flat on her stomach, her body twitching, a thin trickle of vomit coming from between her lips, her eyes closed. Her heart was still beating, but Stefan didn’t know that, because he had been unable to go anywhere near her from the moment she had clutched at her chest and rolled off her sofa on to the floor, gasping like she was ch...oking. He had watched in horror as she had implored him to help in a feeble, cracking voice, a hand stretched out to him. Then she had grasped the truth as he sat there immobile, refusing to go to her. She had accused him with a look of hatred, spitting out the words with rasping breaths, then keeled over on to her front and lay panting. He had only been able to move when she had stopped trying to speak, when her chest was no longer heaving, and though he knew then that he should have bent down and tested her vital signs, assured himself that she definitely was dead, he couldn’t do it.MoreLess
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