Prologue
Lost & Found
“To understand any living thing, you must creep within and feel the beating of its heart.”
W. Macneile Dixon
Prologue
COOTES STORE, VA.
He watched from a distance through high-powered binoculars. He had come too far to take chances now. Everything needed to be perfect. Everything would be perfect. He knew that, and yet he wanted one last period of observation. It gave him satisfaction. He smirked. Soon. Soon he could put his plan into action. It had been years in the making. He had had to have been patient. Sometimes it had been difficult. But that didn’t matter now. All that mattered was the result. It would make all the waiting worthwhile. What had been lost would be found again. He would show them. No. He would show HIM! Lowering the binoculars, he retreated from his hiding place.
Soon.
