Diamonds Live Forever by Elizabeth Gamewell

Author:Elizabeth Gamewell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: mystery, magic, crystals, psychological thriller, Portland
Publisher: Raven's Pen
Published: 2020-07-25T00:00:00+00:00

IT WAS SUNNY OUTSIDE when Carol woke up. She stretched and rolled over. The bed was clean and soft and her hands ran over the standard hotel comforter again and again. It felt so nice to sleep in a bed. As she started to get up, she felt a jolt of panic. She stood there for a minute. He knows where I am. Quickly, she told herself to be strong. That is what she wanted him to know. Her body listened and the furrowed brow unwrinkled. She stretched one more time as she got out of bed. This time she stretched her hands over her head pulling herself up to become bigger than she had been. She made her way to the shower and thought about what she had learned. The restaurant owner let her know that as recently as two days ago Eric had been in the area looking for her. He was probably still close. And now that she had used the credit card for the hotel, she figured he would be even closer.

The hotel clerk told her that this expense would be posted this morning. She was tempted to lie and tell the clerk she had to know because she was on a business trip and needed a record of her expenses, but she decided against it. Lying was not in her nature and she could see how easily it become a habit for people. She had decided to stop running and hiding so she wasn’t going to lie either. That was just another kind of hiding.

The hotel clerk was not surprised by her request and told her that the record of the transaction would be available by 6 pm. That would give her twelve hours. She stepped into the shower and felt the warm water pour over her. She was happy she decided to stop hiding. Today or tomorrow he would check the credit card records. Briefly she wondered what he would think of it but she quickly stopped herself. It didn’t matter. Regardless of what he thought, she knew he would be monitoring her transactions and that was exactly what she was counting on. She was more and more convinced that she had to confront Eric with what she knew he had done. He lived by lies, to her and to others and she needed to call him on it.

Now when she saw the image of the woman, she saw someone childlike, innocently or perhaps naively believing what she wanted to believe about him. “Not unlike me,” Carol realized. There was a strength in this clarity. In a very powerful way, the woman who had haunted her for so long was now helping her.

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