Lucifer Travels-Book #1 in the suspense, mystery thriller Read online

December 13, 2012.

  A loud moan pours from the bedroom. It’s the groan of an old man lost in his dreams. An elderly women woman rushes to the room where the old man lays. “Wake up,” she says. “You were dreaming.”

  Daniel turns his body to face the woman.

  “It’s okay,” she whispers. “It’s okay.”

  Daniel wipes his brow with the bed sheets. He was dripping in sweat. The woman grabs a paper towel from the nightstand and dabs it on his cheeks. She comforts him by humming their song, Love Letters by Elvis Presley. Daniel loved when she did that.

  He smiles as he looks at her from the corner of his eye. She stares back, smiling also; and as she finished wiping him, she whispers, “All done. You should go outside. It’s beautiful out.”

  But Daniel looks away and sighs. The woman just smiles and walks out of the room. You see, she knows that every day he awakes it’s from that same old dream. Every morning, she rushes into that same old room and wipes his face until it’s dry; every day she pleads with him to go outside; and every time Daniel sighs. He always sighs. He never answers, only sighs. It’s routine. He has done that for the last forty years. And she has done the same.

  Daniel is a night walker, always hiding from the light of day, far from the orchestrated lives of those day walkers. He found a job at the rail station and he’s been there for over thirty years.

  He gets up every night and walks to work, all the way from Hickory St. to around Audubon Park. But he always leaves a little early just to make it home before sunrise. Can you believe that? That old fool actually thinks he can run from the past. But they say that the light of God shines even in the darkest corners. And he will soon find out, that it is truly inescapable.

  CHAPTER THREE

  Those aboard Train C114