The Girl In The Glass by James Hayman

Author:James Hayman [Hayman, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2015-07-31T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 34

AT 6:30 THAT morning Lucy McCorkle found herself at the back end of Washington Avenue. She’d been pushing the heavy shopping cart up and down the streets of the Munjoy Hill neighborhood for more than three hours now. Though more tired than she could ever remember feeling in her life, she was afraid to stop moving. Afraid that if she allowed herself to rest for even a ­couple of minutes, the man would find her. And kill her. Just like he killed the girl. Once or twice Lucy found herself wondering about that white jacket he wore. Wondering if maybe the guy was a waiter. Or a pharmacist. Or a dentist. She wondered how many dentists went around killing ­people. It seemed crazy. It made her think that maybe none of what she’d seen had actually happened and that she was getting as nutty as some of those guys who hung out at the dump. She knew booze could do that to you, and she sure as hell drank a lot of booze.

No, she told herself, it wasn’t the booze. It really had happened, and the proof of it was right in her pocket. One hundred and seventy-­one dollars in cold hard cash. All she had to do was stick her hand in, feel the money and know everything she’d seen was real. Just as real as the handle of the cart she was pushing. Just as real as the constant pain in her legs.

Every once in a while Lucy couldn’t resist putting her hand in her pocket again just because she liked the feel of it. One hundred and seventy-­one dollars minus the four bucks and change she’d spent on the pint of vodka. It was more money than she’d had at any one time in the three years since she got fired from her job as a greeter at the Walmart store in Falmouth. She was fired for telling the asshole shift supervisor that he was an asshole. Hell, everybody who worked in the store knew he was an asshole, but she was the only one who had the guts to tell him so to his face, so she was the only one who got kicked out. When he said those words, “You’re outta here,” she took off her little blue vest and threw the stupid thing right in his face. One of the best moments of her life. Made her chuckle even now. Even though she hadn’t been able to find a job since then. She earned what money she could wandering the streets the night before trash pickup and taking as many cans and bottles out of the recycling bins as she could, then cashing them in for the deposit money. That was pretty much her only source of income these days, and the competition to get to the bins first was getting fierce. That’s what made the one hundred and seventy-­one dollars in her pocket so special.

Lucy leaned forward into the cart as she pushed.

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