Run Away Baby by Holly Tierney-Bedord

Author:Holly Tierney-Bedord [Tierney-Bedord, Holly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-12-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 32

It was a typical Friday night. Randall and Abby were on the Lorbmeers’ boat. The Reeds were there and another couple Abby had only met a few times: Bobby and Bobbie. They were old, at least eighty, and drunk. They made Abby feel, as much as anything else she’d suffered, that she didn’t belong here, that she was wasting her youth. It was unnatural to be with these people, to have to speak in ways and about things that were too old for her. In protest, she was sitting alone at the front of the boat. She’d confided to Danna-Dee that she had her period and didn’t feel well. Danna-Dee had looked annoyed, like Abby was bragging about being the only still-fertile woman on the boat.

She kept waiting for the skin-curdling feel of Randall’s hand on her back. To Randall, her going off by herself was like wearing a sandwich board advertising her lack of class. Her youth was appreciated, but never her immaturity. She kept telling herself to get up and mingle, but her body overruled her brain. For the time being, Papa Rottzy was talking to Clark about something and was distracted from her antisocial behavior. She wanted to enjoy it while it lasted.

Feeling momentarily invisible, she looked out at the whitecaps, imagining flinging herself overboard and discreetly swimming to shore. Would she get sucked beneath the boat? Would everyone hear a big splash? Would they see her fall in and throw down a life preserver? Well, that would be embarrassing.

How else did people disappear? She spun the diamond bracelet on her wrist, thinking. She could burn to death, but then she would have to find some other body to stick in the rubble. She’d have to worry about all kinds of things, like dental records and making sure her body double was the right height. No way. It sounded horrifying. She certainly wasn’t going to kill some innocent person just to carry out a plan that might or might not work. If anyone should die it was Randall, not someone she didn’t even know.

Abby rubbed her temples, nauseous, resenting that these were the kinds of daydreams she had. She spun the bracelet around again. It was a bangle bracelet with a little hinge that opened and snapped shut. She thought it looked like something from the mall, but it had probably cost $15,000. She felt like chucking it in the water. This desire was built into everything Randall had ever given her.

He’d been in serious repair mode lately. Present after present. The cabin was gone and she actually thought she’d detected a moment of regret in his eyes when they’d sat at the closing table and passed the keys to its new owners. So little time had passed since they’d received them that they still had the previous realtor’s tag attached to them: 793 Wild Strawberry Lane. It had been hers just long enough for her to miss it now.

She twisted a little, scratching her shoulder and scanning to make sure Randall was still busy.

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