Cast Stones by Cora Kenborn & Catherine Wiltcher

Author:Cora Kenborn & Catherine Wiltcher [Kenborn, Cora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Twisted Publishing
Published: 2021-04-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

On day five, Cain and Luca were acquitted. The case was closed, and heads started to roll, just not the ones Judge Harris had in mind.

He’d been foaming at the mouth when I’d taken a trip to his chambers to present him with a motion to dismiss due to insufficient evidence of guilt. I’d made his decision easy. After my chat with Detective Hunter, an anonymous package had turned up at my apartment containing the security footage from the bar that night. Turns out, Luca’s one-time drinking buddy was none other than Cain Moseley, not that Anderson ever bothered to check. The evidence was so conclusive, there was no way the prosecution could appeal.

A couple of days later, the press caught up and drew a line under the whole trial. Turns out the smug son of a bitch DA was screwing the lead detective on the case—the price of police corruption these days being a little anal play in the stalls of a cheap restaurant off Commercial Boulevard.

Every major news outlet in Florida received photographs of the two men devouring each other’s assholes like they hadn’t eaten in a decade. It was front page for a week. No one cared about a couple of damaged kids from a disbanded sex cult, though. The noise around the murders lost its volume after revelations of child rape came to light. Middle-class America doesn’t want to associate with that kind of tawdriness. They’d rather keep it hidden, while victims like me, Luca, and Cain are left to flounder in the darkness, fighting memories that bleed our souls dry, drip by painful drip. Instead, they’re happy to let others, like that bastard Jackson King, take advantage of our weakened state. They pay their taxes to sweep society’s problem children away from them.

Cain dealt with the verdict in his own way. Some people aren’t meant for the agonies of this world. Eventually, it becomes too much of a burden, and their backs break under the strain. His landlord found him swinging from the railing of his own staircase a couple of weeks after the trial. There was no note. No one to mourn him. His ending was as sad as the life he’d been dragged into twenty-five years ago.

I was the only person who attended his funeral.

No loved ones.

No Luca.

He’d walked out of the courtroom a free man and he’d never looked back—just like I’d begged him to—disappearing back into the shadows and leaving me more alone than ever. Overnight, he’d switched from being the accused to the sole witness, but he wasn’t hanging around to play nice with the people who’d falsely arrested him.

Determined to prove her copycat theory, Detective Hunter tracked him to another state, but after that, his trail dried up. I guess he’d finally had enough of Florida tainting him with the crimes of others, even if he did invite her wrath in there for a while.

I know now that was for my benefit…

What I don’t know is why.

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