London Carter Boxed Set: Books 1 - 3 by BJ Bourg

Author:BJ Bourg [Bourg, BJ]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2017-04-30T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 22

Wellman Boudreaux’s camp…

Clayton Boudreaux was sitting on his bed crying when we walked into his bedroom. He stabbed at the tears with a fist and exhaled forcefully, trying to toughen up. “I’m sorry,” he said. “I’ve never seen…never seen anything like that. One minute she was alive and the next…it was so horrible. I swear I didn’t know it was going to happen.”

Dawn sat beside him and put a hand on his back. “It’s okay, son. Don’t bottle it up. Let it all out. It’s normal to be upset after witnessing something so horrific.”

Clayton fought hard to keep the tears back. He stood and walked around his room, taking deep breaths and exhaling repeatedly. I didn’t say anything for a few minutes. When he was breathing normal again and had stopped trembling, he looked at me with bloodshot eyes. “Am I in trouble?”

I didn’t know if he was simply naïve or if he’d done something wrong. I hesitated for a brief moment, and then asked if he did something that would get him in trouble.

He was clenching and unclenching his fists, as though trying to decide if he should say what he was thinking.

“Look,” I began, “if you didn’t kill the girl—”

“Joyce,” Clayton said. “Her name is Joyce Cole.”

“Okay. If you didn’t kill Joyce or set her up to be killed, you can’t be in any trouble.”

Clayton sighed audibly. “I didn’t have anything to do with it. I liked her.” He lowered his head, as though embarrassed. “When you find her, she’s going to be naked. We…we were about to”—he glanced at Dawn and then looked at me—“you know, do it in the boat.” He whispered the last part so Dawn wouldn’t hear, but she heard anyway.

I nodded my understanding. “It’s okay. We’ve all been there.”

I saw Dawn’s eyebrows furrow from where she was sitting behind Clayton taking notes, and she slowly lifted her head to look at me. I stole a quick glance in her direction and she mouthed the words, “I’ve never done it in a boat, so speak for yourself!”

I stifled a chuckle and asked Clayton if he could tell us what happened.

“There’s not much to tell. We were getting undressed and…” Tears welled up in his eyes and he lowered his head again.

“It’s okay,” I said. “Go on. What happened?”

“They shot Joyce while she was kissing me,” he said, his jaw trembling uncontrollably. “It was such a weird and scary feeling. I felt her die in my mouth. She just went limp. Her tongue stopped moving and slipped out of my mouth. She fell straight to the deck and then slid out the boat. I tried to get her out the water, but it was no use. She disappeared and I thought they would kill me if I hung around, so I tried to leave.”

When he didn’t continue on his own, I asked what he meant by tried to leave.

“I wasn’t looking where I was going and a branch knocked me out of the boat.” He started trembling again.

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