BREAKING STEELE (A Sarah Steele Thriller) by Patterson Aaron; Ann Ellie

Author:Patterson, Aaron; Ann, Ellie [Patterson, Aaron; Ann, Ellie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: action, Adventure, thriller
ISBN: 9781624820311
Publisher: StoneHouse Ink
Published: 2012-10-25T15:00:00+00:00

Chapter 25

“WHEN I TURNED TWELVE it started. My mother died and Hank lost it. He’s such a pig. I think he killed her, but that’s another story.”

So she was his … daughter?

“He gave me everything; I even had a frickin’ pony, just like in the movies. That was our life, parties, people always over, and then night after night of terror. He turned into a different person, mean and jumpy. He would get angry at the drop of a hat. I hated him, wanted to kill him, but I was scared.”

“Did you tell anyone?” Joshua said.

“Yes, my uncle Glen, but he did nothing. Said I was imagining things. That I was stressed because of my mother’s death. He told me that if I told anyone my lies that I would lose everything. But a few nights after I told him about what Hank was doing he came into the room and … watched.”

“I’m so sorry, Heather.” I meant that with every fiber of my being.

Her eyes filled with tears and they spilled down her pale cheeks. I didn’t think she had seen kindness in a very long time and my heart broke for her. “I made it to my 18 birthday then I left, changed my last name, and moved in with my boyfriend. He left me a year later when the money ran out. Guess he didn’t want a broke girlfriend.”

“Did your dad look for you, try to find you?”

“No, that was the strange part. He just let me go, didn’t say a word. No police report, nothing. That’s when I filed the employee abuse report. I was too scared to go to the cops. Hank would kill me, I know he would. I started to imagine killing him, but even in my dreams he was there with his stun gun.”

My heart jumped at the familiar weapon. So Heather had seen the end of one, too.

“When they saw my claim, Glen told me he’d give me a stipend every month. So I never moved. I was in debt with some bad people, I needed the money and so I took it. And I was so scared that one day he’ll come back. But he travels so much that I never see him anyway. Glen always went with him everywhere, but stayed in the shadows like a vampire. He’s so weird. And it was weird to see them together.”

“Why?” I asked.

“Well, it’s always weird to see identical people walking side by side.”

Heather rifled through some magazines in a bookshelf and then took out a photo album. She flipped through the pages until she landed on what she wanted—and handed it to me.

The picture was of a small family in front of a huge mansion. A young Heather stood in front of a squinty-eyed woman, who stood beside Hank, who stood beside a man who looked the exact same as he did. Same shape of face, same build, same smile, same facial hair.

“Twins? Hank and Glen are twins?”

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