The Darkwater Girls: An absolutely gripping and unputdownable crime thriller (Georgia Fell Book 1) by Maegan Beaumont

Author:Maegan Beaumont [Beaumont, Maegan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781800191204
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2021-11-03T16:00:00+00:00

Thirty-Two

Richard brought a deck of cards.

It was something we used to do together. He’d catch me in the kitchen late at night, staring out the window above the sink, a glass clenched in my hand like I’d come down for a drink of water in the middle of the night. I didn’t come downstairs for water. I was thinking about running. Staring out the window at the dock. The boat tied to the end of it. Dreaming about Canada or maybe doubling back into Wisconsin or Minnesota.

I always thought about running away. Leaving the island. Disappearing without a trace. I’d sneak downstairs and stare out the window and think about how easy it would be. Calculate in my head how far away I’d be able to get before anyone realized I was gone. How long I could survive on the crumpled bills I had hidden in the toe of one of my old shoes.

No matter how much I thought about it, I never seemed to be able to pull the trigger, thoughts of Archie and Rachel and Evie and all the others I’d be leaving behind would parade through my head. By the time I was fifteen and Richard started showing up with his cards, I wasn’t staring at the boat tied to the end of the dock anymore. I was staring at the boathouse. Thinking about the boy who lived inside of it. The closer I got to freedom the closer those two fantasies began to meld. I wasn’t just thinking about running away. I was thinking about running away with him.

Lincoln.

“Earth to Georgia?”

I look up from my hand, cards blurry in my field of vision. Blinking hard, I see Richard sitting in the same chair Alex and Archie both used when they came to see me. Not Lincoln though. Lincoln stood over me and glared. Showed me his bloodstained hands and told me he loved me. Has always loved me. That when he found me, he thought I was dead.

“Georgia.” His tone isn’t playful anymore. This time when Richard says my name, it’s heavy with concern. When I don’t answer him right away, he drops his cards on the rollaway table between us and moves to stand. “I’m going to get Dr. Jones,” he tells me as he starts to push himself out of his chair. “You look—”

“Like I rolled my truck into a ditch?” I finish for him, giving him a tired smile when all he does is scowl at me. “I’m fine, Mr. McNamara,” I say, pushing as much reassurance onto my face as I can. “As fine as I can be with a concussion, five staples in my head and three cracked ribs.” I sigh softly. Giving up on the cards in my hand, I toss them onto the table next to his. “There’s no need to go looking for her. Evie will be back, any minute now, with that damnable pen light of hers—I’m okay. I promise.”

After a few more seconds of deliberation, Richard lowers himself back into his chair but he doesn’t look happy about it.

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