Vanish
Chapter One
It all began with a feeling. Just an
eerie feeling.
Conner Hayden peered out his
office window at the hazy downtown
Chicago vista. Heat plumes radiated
from tar-covered rooftops baking in the
midafternoon sun. A late-summer heat
wave had every AC unit in the city running
at full capacity.
He narrowed his eyes. Every unit
except the one on the building across
the street. On that roof, a lone maintenance
worker in blue coveralls crouched
beside the bulky air conditioner with
his toolbox open beside him.
Conner watched the man toil in the
oppressive August heat. Something
hadn't felt right all day. Despite the relative seclusion of his
thirty-ninth-floor office, Conner couldn't shake the feeling that
he was being watched.
It had begun early that morning when he stopped for gas.
He could have sworn the guy at the next pump was staring
at him. Conner saw his face for only an instant. But it looked
strange somehow-dark, as if shrouded by a passing shadow.
And his eyes ...
For a moment, his eyes looked completely white.
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