Red Rain: Clouds Gathering by Beers David

Author:Beers, David
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-06-21T00:00:00+00:00

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Charles Raport stepped out of the confessional booth and noticed for the first time that his hands were shaking. Even the hand holding onto his worn Bible shook, his grip not able to prevent it. God cursed him when he sent John Hilt to his flock. Cursed him and might even be laughing now, up in heaven, looking down at Charles’ shaky hands.

Father forgive me for that blaspheme, he thought as he walked across the room, heading back to his office.

John had confessed to four murders so far. At first, Charles wasn’t sure the man told the truth—thought he might be trying to create a ruse or see if Charles would break the Seal of the Confessional. Now, though, he knew better.

John Hilt was a psychopath. One that believed in God. One that might even want to stop being a psychopath, at least a part of him, but all the same, a psychopath.

The priest opened his office door, set his Bible on his desk, and then practically fell into his chair.

He wanted to break the Seal of the Confessional. He wanted to tell someone—anyone, really—what he knew. Because it would happen again. The police needed to arrest this man and throw him in a cell, a hospital, or an electric chair. Charles didn’t have the answer to what happened after John was apprehended, just as long as he was out of the public domain.

And yet he couldn’t. He could do nothing but sit here and shake.

He had appealed to the Church, asking their permission to alert the police about John, but was told no. Their reasoning relied on the sanctity of confession, and if God wanted someone to know, God would make it happen.

As far as Father Charles could tell, God was sitting this one out.

“There’s one thing you can do,” he said to himself. He would have to convince John, which might be impossible. John was smart, and he would know Charles’ endgame.

And he didn’t know if he could handle something like that, going into a psycho’s mind.

Yet he couldn’t sit here in his church knowing a murderer walked along its hallways. He had to do something. He just didn’t know what.

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