Cat & Cat by Mark Kozak

Author:Mark Kozak
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: mystery action suspense thriller
Publisher: Mark Kozak

Chapter 23

The laptop rested on our bed next to Ron Barnes’s burner phone . On her side of the bed, resting against a pillowed backrest, Marie sipped an obscenely large mug of black coffee with the word MOM’S emblazoned along the circumference. With a big panting smile, Lady rested in a half-curl position on my side of the bed. Directly above her, I sat Indian-style, my legs under the blankets. Waiting.

“Come on…” Marie hissed. Her eyes, like mine, focused on the laptop screen. Waiting.

For the last two hours, since leaving the parking lot at Casey’s, I’d been enlightening my wife with every moment and word shared between Ron Barnes and me. I held nothing back this time, not one horrific, sick detail.

Marie now knew Barnes considered me a fellow “connoisseur” of underage girls, that he believed I had designs on Darla, and that he’d offered me a rendezvous with one of his loyal Lolitas if I procured him a new laptop. Most disturbing to my wife, however, was my revelation that Barnes knew Darla was in his backyard the morning we found his dead cat. From disbelief to disgust to fear, Marie’s reaction to every new detail ran the gamut of emotions until eventually settling into sheer outrage.

To my utter surprise, Marie now demanded I log onto the laptop, contact Wormwood, and apprise him of the latest developments. So, for the last twenty minutes, we’d been staring at the laptop, anxiously awaiting the appearance of our own personal deus ex machina .

“Where the hell is he?” Marie’s words steamed over the rim of her ginormous mug.

“He’ll be on,” I assured her. “He always is. Plus, he just hired me for two grand. He’ll IM back. Trust me.”

“What are you guys doing in there?” Jason’s shrill call was only slightly muted by our closed, locked door. “Why is the door locked?” Our doorknob jiggled.

“They’re having sex, baby Jason.” That’s our Button.

“Ewwwwwaaawwww!” Jason screeched like he’d just been scalded.

“Not that you even know what that is…” Darla pressed.

“I do so know what sex is!” Jason shrieked. “And I know they’re not having sex because Lady’s in there.”

“They always screw with Lady in the room,” Darla cackled. “Chris is into that!”

“DARLA!!” Marie tore her attention away from the laptop screen, launched herself off our bed, and started moving towards the door.

“Mom, what does Darla mean that Chris is into that? Into what?”

“KNOCK IT OFF, both of you!” Marie threw open the door. Jason scurried away as my wife marched into the living room, Lady at her heels.

The sound from the living room TV now filtered into our room. Bleak narration, the strains of an intense multi-person argument, and a girl’s screaming declaration “I don’t give a BLEEP what any of you say! I’ll do what I want…” told me immediately that Darla was watching Intervention, one of her favorite ‘reality’ shows.

“D—Darla said you were having sex,” Jason stammered, obviously trying to deflect Marie’s rage toward his sister.

“I know exactly what she said,” Marie fumed and whirled towards Darla.

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