Chapter 4

“No, of course not.” His strange golden eyes widened.

“A sex fiend?” That made sense. The guy had taken off his clothes.

The dark head tilted. “Well, perhaps, but I don’t think the way you mean it.”

His head pounded almost as hard as his heart. To think this night had started so normally. Just got home from a day of drudgery at the store…and now?

“It’s going to be all right,” the strange guy said. “Don’t you know who I am?”

“Haven’t I been asking that?” He could tell by the high pitch of his voice he was on the verge of hysteria.

“Manfred.”

Now he remembered. This guy had leaned over him outside after the branch hit him and said something about being Manfred. Conrad shook his head.

The guy smiled and reached up toward his neck. He reached into his turtleneck and pulled out a necklace with a little round metal tag on it. He jingled it.