Chapter 12

“We should buy one of these,” he told Luke.

“Right now, I’m all for it.” Luke shivered. “That or a big dog.”

“How did they try to get in? Or more, where?” I asked them.

“Through one of the windows in the dining room,” David replied. “We were getting ready for bed, and I thought I’d forgotten to turn on the coffee maker. It’s on a timer, so we have hot coffee when we get up in the morning. I didn’t turn on any lights on my way down. There was enough coming through the living room windows from the front porch light. Anyway, I was almost to the kitchen and heard something. A scraping sound, if that makes sense.”

“It does. Like whoever it was, was trying to get some leverage to pry the window open.”