Empathy by Dukey Ker

Author:Dukey, Ker [Dukey, Ker]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: novel
Published: 2014-08-27T07:00:00+00:00

ANOTHER JOB HAS COME IN, but ever since her I’ve questioned my life choices. How many young girls like her are out there living with actions caused by my hate for what happened to us? Was I reckless with the jobs I accepted? The half-brother claimed the father was volatile towards women and the mother was a spectator in his perversions. With my own blind hate for my parents I conceded this warranted the death penalty. I should have investigated further, but the truth is, I knew how under the radar these crimes can be. No one knew how abusive our father and mother were so who was I to question this guy? There has to be a desperate reason to want to kill your father, right? Turns out greed can be a good motivator for murder. Their lawyer is home now and the Will will be read, giving him a nice surprise which has the detectives investigating the parents’ murder and looking more closely into Markus. I’m not worried, our communications were very secure and the only evidence of them is from me printing the details out to go over them with a fine tooth comb after that night.

My phone buzzes, breaking into my thoughts. It’s Ryan. “Hey, you still at the barbeque?” I ask.

“Nah, I left shortly after you. I just called Melody. She called me an asshole.”

“You are an asshole.”

“She’s being a moody bitch; it’s her go to attitude lately. Anyway I called because I can’t find my wallet. Did I leave it on the kitchen table?”

“Yeah. Where are you?”

“At her dorm.”

Swallowing the primal growl crawling up my throat I tell him I’ll bring it to him.

I pull up next to Ryan, stunned by the sudden turn in weather. Rain pelts down with such force it blurs the scenery through the windshield, moulding it all together into a distortion of colors. I lower my passenger window to see Ryan standing under a shelter, staring across the road. I try calling to him but he’s engrossed in whatever has his attention. I slam my hand down on the steering wheel and look over at the back seat to see if, by magic, a jacket has appeared there. No such luck. I grab his wallet and make a dash for it. The pellets hit me like thousands of tiny needles, the air is still thick despite the beckoning storm, and a flash of lightning ignites the sky shortly followed by an eruption of thunder.

“Ryan! What are looking at?”

I follow his line of vision, my breath catching when I see Melody standing in the downpour, no coat. She’s lost in the deadly grips of grief, her body shivering.

“She’s broken. Fuck, Ryan. She’s crying, what are you doing?”

His eyes reluctantly drag from her to me. “Watching.”

She’s breaking inside, the fragile pieces coming away with the water as it pours down on her. Her sorrow is so tangible it’s as if her pain summoned the storm.

I slap his wallet against his chest and run to her.

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