Diamond Girl by Andrea Smith

Author:Andrea Smith
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Meatball Taster Publishing
Published: 2013-04-09T21:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 26

It had been a month since Jack had blackened my eye and broke things off with Slate on my behalf. I now knew what it felt like to be a prisoner in my own home, and paranoid to wander from it. The week between the ‘incident’ and Lindsey coming home for spring break had proven to be extremely tense; Jack hadn’t let me out of his site. He had destroyed my phone, of course, and what was worse, he had locked the office which had our desktop computer in it so that I could not access it; he had kept our wireless landline phone next to him at all times, even when it was on the charger.

Brenda had called once and he had told her I was in bed with the flu; he told her I would get back with her just as soon as I felt up to it. If I balked or challenged him with anything, he held up the Android phone that contained the video recording of my dance for Susanne. It was extremely provocative, proof that he wasn’t bluffing. There was no way in hell that I wanted my daughter to see it. I didn’t care so much about my parents, but not my Lindsey.

The ten days that Lindsey had been home for spring break had been filled with family activities. I was never out of Jack’s sight; when I was, I was with Lindsey doing some ‘pre-arranged’ thing that Jack had set up. He had kept my Mercedes remote in his pocket so that I couldn’t arbitrarily leave to go on an errand. When Lindsey and I would go somewhere, he invariably called me back on the pretense of him not getting his ‘kiss’ from me. He would then whisper a reminder of what would happen should I stray from the plan.

“You and Daddy seem closer than ever,” Lindsey had remarked with a smile, “I’m so glad, Mom.”

“Yes, he’s been home for a while,” I replied.

I had kissed Lindsey at the airport as she headed back to Ithaca to school. I hugged her tightly, not wanting her to leave me alone with the monster that was both my husband and her father.

“Don’t cry, Mom. The semester will be over before you know it. I’ll be home for the summer and you will be sick and tired of me before fall semester starts.”

“I doubt that very much, baby girl,” I had sobbed. She was so precious to me. I loved her so very much.

The following week after Lindsey had returned to college, Jack remained at home. He had spent hours upon hours in the office on the computer. He had multiple hushed conversations with someone that I could only presume was his ‘right-hand’ bitch/nark, Susanne. I had spent my time cleaning, cooking, and working out in the yard since it was time for spring clean-up. I had no means of communication unless Jack allowed it.

He had allowed me to call Brenda a couple of times; she had wondered what in the hell had happened to my cell phone.

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