he talked a long time and after a while cindy had stopped listening , had stopped even breathing and he realized then that he did n't want to die , did n't want his daughter to die , and he opened the door and dragged her out and unbound her hands and removed the gag so she could speak to him but she did n't speak or cry or breathe , and that fury took hold of him again and he shook her hopelessly , breaking her skull on the concrete slab of the garage floor before it dawned on him that he was right to be scared because he had killed his daughter and still lived and they 'd find him , put him in jail for the rest of his life and make him pay and pay and pay like his old man always used to tell him they 'd do .