Southern Gothic by Dale Wiley

Author:Dale Wiley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: thriller, gothic, suspense, murder, bookstore, Savannah, Georgia, stalker
Publisher: Vesuvian Books
Published: 2017-01-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 29

Michael sat in the tub. He had found a Raymond Chandler novel in a corner of Meredith’s library. He noticed it the first time he made one of his visits into her home, but now he could spend some time with it. He had read it half a dozen times, but in each read, he found something new. The Long Goodbye was about as good of a book as you could find in his estimation. He wondered if she had picked it up after the piece he had written about it for Harper’s many years ago. Of course, she was more well-read than most, so he couldn’t guarantee it, but it seemed like a good bet to him.

He wondered when she would finish Red Ribbon. Would she immediately make the connection? He figured she would; she was a smart cookie. She was a worthy inclusion into his life. He hoped she would understand just how much he was going to mean to her. She would have to let him come and go and let him surprise her from time to time. His current status meant he couldn’t be tied down in any traditional way, and he hoped she could see the freedom that meant for her. She didn’t need to know just yet about how all this tied together; he had the plan, and for it to work, he would have to explain it as time went on.

Michael sunk down deeper in the hot water. At least he passed the first test. He enjoyed the night before, and the passion had been better than he expected. He knew it had something to do with her intelligence and probably, as much as it hurt him to say it, with her maturity. As shiny as Quinn was, she could not have had the same experience Meredith had.

Of course, there had been others in between, but he never allowed himself to connect beyond the carnal. He indulged regularly, always when he visited a big city, always when he loaded the debit card and set himself up for a couple nights at a hotel. Originally, he would try to use the liaisons as a place to stay, but those situations led him into his stalking routine, which he found distasteful and a waste of time spent on those beneath him. Invariably, if he knew where they lived, curiosity would get the better of him, and he would wind up spending weeks on a woman who wasn’t worthy.

He developed his rules, and to his credit, he stuck to them. But living life at that level of interaction led him to start the full-on press with Meredith. Unlike the others, impressing her meant something. If all went according to plan, he could write the story he wanted with the companion who had eluded him for years.

It could all go wrong in the next few minutes. If she saw too much in what he had written or if she figured out the key he had hidden, it could be over—or even worse, she could turn him in.

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