Hidden Entity (Sweetfern Harbor Mystery Book 14) by Wendy Meadows

Author:Wendy Meadows [Meadows, Wendy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Majestic Owl Publishing LLC
Published: 2019-04-09T16:00:00+00:00

6

Lauren Meyers took a deep breath and began telling her story to Brenda. At last, she could tell everything in full. Perhaps, now that she had lost almost everything dear to her, the telling would finally free her.

“My mother was killed in a car accident a couple of years before I became a teenager. My father, Grady, began drinking heavily and chose to ignore me. He had no idea who my friends were, and I didn’t dare invite them to our house. I couldn’t rely on him being sober. When I turned fourteen, my aunt and uncle invited me to their home to celebrate. It was the best birthday I had had since my mother’s death. My friends came, and we even had a local band perform. They were unknown to me at the time, but they played our kind of music.”

“Did your father approve of the party?”

“I don’t think he even knew about it. My aunt and uncle certainly didn’t invite him. Besides, he was too busy brawling with our neighbor. The elderly man who lived next door, his name was Randy…I don’t recall his last name right now. I thought he was a nice person, but my dad sure didn’t. Well, after that birthday party, I got home and discovered him even more drunk than ever. He was berating Randy for planting a stupid tree on our property. Randy said he had proof it was on his property, but that didn’t matter to my father. He was on a rampage by that time. He called it an invasion of his privacy.”

Brenda shivered when Lauren said those words.

“I was standing at my upstairs bedroom window watching his latest tirade against that poor innocent man next door. I knew my father was as drunk as I’d ever seen him. I was just thinking I should call my aunt and ask to stay with them for the whole night—and maybe for the rest of my high school years, because I had had so much fun at the party and had started to remember what it was like not to live in fear all the time. And then…it happened. I saw my father pull out a long knife and plunge it into Randy’s chest.” Lauren shuddered as if seeing it for the first time. “That one stab wasn’t enough. He did it over and over. I later heard the poor man had thirty-six stab wounds.”

“That’s terrible. I’m so sorry you saw that as such a young girl. What did you do?”

“I didn’t want my father to know I had been watching and so I quickly pulled away from the window and turned my music up higher. The old man’s daughter drove up just after my father got out of sight. I heard the wailing when she discovered the bloody body of her father.”

Lauren sank lower into the folds of the sofa. She curled up as if to protect herself from the memories. Brenda waited. The recorder ran silently, recording the woman’s long pause as she considered her next words.

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