Cursed by Rain J.R. & Nicholson Scott

Author:Rain, J.R. & Nicholson, Scott [Rain, J.R.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2013-11-24T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

My heart wanted to break. All those precious loving words twisted and torn into pieces. Someday, I swore, I would tape up every last one.

Tabby let out a low whistle. “Maybe you didn’t know your wife as well as you thought you did.”

“Maybe nobody knows anybody,” I replied, thinking about how Amanda had hidden both the pregnancy and the family’s long lineage of witches. And how Gerda must have kept a key. I wonder how many times she’d slipped in while I was away. Maybe she’d stood over me while I was snoring away in bed, testing the edge of her knife, contemplating.

“Okay, so now we can definitely give her ‘psycho’ points,” Tabby said. “But we already know that your wife knew about Amanda, remember? She was the one who called my sister to tell her that you were married.”

“Sure,” I said. “But I was able to hide the extent of our relationship. For Gerda’s sake—and perhaps so I wouldn’t wake up on the wrong side of a knife blade—I made it seem like an inconsequential affair. Just a few dates. Nothing serious.”

“Until she found these letters and saw that it was more serious than that. That you, in fact, loved Amanda.”

“And you think that would drive her over the edge?”

Tabby thought hard about it, and as she thought, I saw that her eyes were moist. It isn’t easy talking about your murdered sister, especially when it hasn’t even been 24 hours. Even for a hardened cop.

“I suspect,” she said, and paused. She tried again. “I suspect it was a series of events, Al. And each flamed a deeper and deeper rage. When do you think she found these letters?”

“No idea, but they were untouched maybe two months ago. She must have kept a key.”

“So it’s a fresh discovery, but she obviously suspected more.”

“Like you said, a series of events. You think she’s the killer?” I asked.

“Put it this way, Al: I have no fucking doubt. The next step is to figure out where she is.”

“The detectives told me they’d searched her apartment and have it staked out. But she’s too smart to waltz into a trap.”

Tabby said, “Sounds like she’s smarter than anyone thought. Fooled the shrinks into believing she was okay, fooled the police into thinking she wasn’t a threat, and fooled herself into believing that serial killing wasn’t a genetic disorder.”

“Can I ask you something?”

She shrugged. I went for it.

“Back when Tattoo Boy was harassing us, you reached in your jacket and came out with a badge. Are you by any chance carrying?”

She gave me a rueful grin that said she was ready for anything, and I shuddered a little. If the Mead family indeed practiced “An eye for an eye,” I might cause the cold-blooded killing of yet another person. But I couldn’t deny my own lust for revenge, which now seemed as powerful as the lust I’d once felt for Amanda.

“What now?” I asked, afraid to ask but doing it anyway.

“I need to think.”

“Well, I don’t think we can do much in the middle of the night,” I said, yawning.

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