06.Evil.Beside.Her.2008 by Casey Kathryn

Author:Casey, Kathryn [Casey, Kathryn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Linda drove across the street to the high school and took the road that led to the track. When she arrived, James was waiting. He walked around and got inside the passenger seat beside her.

“Drive to the park,” he snarled. “Now.” Beating the car roof with his fist, he bayed at her as she drove: “You know too much, Linda. You know too fucking much.”

“Then let’s just forget it,” she said. “You go your way and I’ll go mine.”

“Just drive, you bitch,” he hissed. “Drive.”

The park James referred to was a small, wooded area on Hood Canal, miles up the road from their first apartment. It had always been one of Linda’s favorites, a haven she sometimes ran to when she and James fought. There she had once walked and considered the dismal turnaround in her marriage. On this afternoon, the park was deserted when they arrived.

James motioned for her to follow and he led her to a picnic table near the water. Linda was terrified, her heart galloping with fear as she sat down next to him.

“What do you want?” she asked, finally. “Can’t you leave me alone? Haven’t you hurt me enough?”

“Linda, shut up,” he shouted.

“You go your way, James, and I’ll go mine,” she insisted. “This isn’t a marriage anymore. The marriage is over and finished, and I never want to see you again.”

“Shut the fuck up,” he screamed.

“I saw the gun. Chris has the gun,” she shouted. “How could you have done this? How could you have raped that woman?”

“You do what I say,” James said, pushing his face at hers, “or I’ll kill you, that man and woman you’re living with, and anyone else I have to. I’ll move to Greece and stay with my mother’s family. They’ll never find me.”

James was angry, as angry as she had ever seen him. Linda knew she was only an impulse away from violence. She surveyed the seclusion of the park, the water and the forests. When she closed her eyes, she could picture the gun in her mind. You did it, she kept thinking. You raped that woman.

“I’ve told you before and I meant it,” he said, opening and closing his fists until the veins in his muscles bulged and twisted like blue highways on a map. “I could kill all of you and no one could stop me.”

“I won’t tell anyone about the gun. Just leave me alone,” she pleaded, gulping back the tears.

Then, according to Linda, James looked at her coldly and deliberately. “He said, ‘Chris says I should just get rid of you. You know too much. I could kill you right now, Linda. Right here. And no one would ever know.’”

Trying not to cry, Linda stared down at the water lapping lazily against the shore. This can’t be happening, she thought. God, if I could only wake up. Where she’d felt panic earlier, resignation now overtook her. I’m never getting away from him.

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