Chapter 20: Syd Understands Something about HimselfHe couldn’t find Rudi. Couldn’t hear him. He wasn’t anywhere.
Staring at the storm through the office window, Syd tightened the hood around his head. Had to get help. Real help. Government help. The army had to come down here. Whatever.
There was a f*****g alien in this motel and it had Rudi with him. He hadn’t listened to Rudi. Hadn’t believed him. He’d even accused him of being in on this whole thing. From day one, no, from second one, he hadn’t trusted Rudi. Just like he’d never trusted anyone in his whole lonely life.
He was his father’s son. He could hear his father’s voice in the night, accusing his mother of every possible sin. Liar! w***e! Jezebel! Gold digger!
And yet, there she’d been every day and every evening, in some stup
