Benevolent by Leddy Harper

Author:Leddy Harper [Harper, Leddy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2014-11-20T00:00:00+00:00

I had always believed in signs, but never paid attention to them until it was too late. My grandmother used to tell me everything happens for a reason and I believed that. But you never see that reason until the time had passed. On your way to work, the light you’re waiting at never changes. You get mad, right? It was clearly your turn to go, but the light never changed. What do you do? You get mad, or at least I do. I curse the red bulb that’s hung on a cable as if it has feelings that I’d hurt by calling it a motherfucker. But what if that happened for a reason? What if I had gone and ended up getting hit by another car? What if that was God’s way of keeping me out of a head-on collision? You don’t think about things like that when it happens. No. All you think about is how you missed your light.

The next morning was exactly like that for me.

My alarm either didn’t go off or I had turned it off without actually waking up. Either way, I was late. I jumped out of bed and noticed the other side hadn’t been slept on. I thought back through my fuzzy mind on the night before. Gabi was in the back bedroom when I went to bed, so that was the first place I checked. I found her, passed out on the floor by the bed. An empty wine bottle was next to her. A box of papers were scattered around and her laptop was opened in front of her.

If she had gone to bed instead of passing out where she was, I would have never thought twice about it. I would have never gone into that room looking for her and I would have never learned what I did. But that’s not what happened.

I went to her, worried something had happened to her. I noticed that she was breathing, and that made me feel relief. I knelt down on the floor in front of her, taking in a deep breath after the panic I had felt over seeing her like that. That was when I saw it. A piece of paper I had stepped on had the name Sean DeMasc on the top. That was a name I’d never forget.

I pulled it out from under my foot and noticed it was a printout of an article from when he was arrested. It made me look at the other papers around her. Each and every one of them were printouts from online, all having to do with the one man I hated more than anything—Sean DeMasc.

I must’ve accidentally hit the computer, because it turned on. To my surprise, his mug shot was side-by-side with another picture of the fucker. It was a new article from the day before and it was about his sudden death. I couldn’t help the feeling of relief that flooded me at that news. After what he had done to Gabi, I was glad he was dead.

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