Death of a Movie Star by Timothy Patrick

Author:Timothy Patrick [Patrick, Timothy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: female, protagonist, suspense, romance, comedy, revenge
Publisher: Country Scribbler Publishing
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter nine

On a rainy evening in April, near the end of the StarBash television season, Lenora sat at the desk in her home office and carefully inspected the mail. None of the letters had her name on them. They had Cassandra Moreaux’s name. Lenora had been intercepting Cassandra’s mail from the beginning. The effort hadn’t produced anything of interest…until this day. Cassandra had received correspondence from a private investigator in Los Angeles.

The scalpel cut into the top of the seam on the ten-inch envelope and then sliced all the way to the bottom. In just a few seconds the envelope had been opened, and Lenora had the contents in her hand: a birth certificate and a printed summary of the detective’s investigation. Lenora recognized the birth certificate. Three or four identical documents currently resided right there in her safe. She also recognized the names, dates, and facts in the report. Cassandra now had everything she needed. Time was running out.

Lenora had encountered formidable enemies in the past, but she’d never had one who marched as relentlessly as Cassandra Moreaux. And she’d never had one who’s stated purpose had been to destroy the very thing that Lenora cared about most in the world.

Lenora didn’t believe in self-sacrifice or any of the altruistic shackles that bound the human race. She had never known anyone who had turned ten bucks into twenty by turning the other cheek. She didn’t believe in love, which she considered an affectation that desperate people add to compensate for emotional deficiencies. Even the idea of relationship, as practiced by the masses, baffled Lenora. She didn’t understand why two people, who randomly converge at a place in time, felt the need to embellish the occurrence and call it something special. She called them affiliations and used them all the time. And when they lost their usefulness, she discarded them. Lenora understood self-sufficiency. She understood discipline, focus, and sacrifice. Most of all, Lenora understood the necessity of a person to change the world by living up to their full potential. And if that potential had enough power behind it, and if that person dramatically exceeded their potential by a wide enough margin, then that very same person had the rightful privilege of changing the world long after they had died. That’s what Lenora believed in. She believed in legacy.

And what about existence itself, the philosopher’s endless fodder? Lenora had come to have doubts about that, too. At best, even the most glorious existence represented a mere flicker in the infinite darkness…unless, once again, it had been properly illuminated by a carefully tended legacy. And Lenora had tended her legacy with meticulous devotion. And now the time had come to turn it loose. The final act of a perfectly lived life, Lenora believed, happened when the sheer glory and magnitude of the legacy fully supplanted the comparably weak and frail existence. Lenora looked forward to her final act, to the time when Lenora Danmore the person faded into the mist in order to make way for Lenora Danmore the young beauty who never ever fades.

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