The Insane God by Jay Hartlove

Author:Jay Hartlove [Hartlove, Jay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Water Dragon Publishing
Published: 2022-05-01T07:00:00+00:00

11

“Pompeii”

Bastille

“You go on without me. You know what you’re looking for.” Sarah knew Nate would take a long time deciding, and that she would not be any help.

“There was the one security camera system they advertised on sale, so it shouldn’t take that long,” he said.

“I’ll catch up to you in Electronics.”

“Where will you be?”

“Nate, it’s Target. Target has everything,” she said with a wide swing of her arms.

As she watched him walk away, she realized she had spent no time thinking about the running of their household, so she had no idea what they might need. Oh well. The jewelry counter was seductively close to the entrance. So was a display of cute hats.

After trying on a couple, she got that uncomfortable feeling of someone hating on her from a distance. She casually glanced around and didn’t see any of the older men staring at her the way she found nearly every time she went out shopping. There was one really pretty blond woman in her thirties who was looking at Sarah. She had kind of a blank stare. Maybe she was curious how the hats looked on a teenager.

Purses. She had been living out of one of Nate’s bookbag backpacks. It was definitely time for her own pretty purse. Long strap, short strap? Lots of pockets, one big pocket? Again, she got the nagging hater signal. Again, she looked around and saw no one who looked like they were hunting her. Maybe Target shoppers just carried around a lot of rage. She decided she could decide on the purses better with an empty bladder. The bathrooms were close by next to the entrance.

She finished her business and was tucking everything back into her tight jeans when the hater feeling suddenly came on like a storm. The only other times she had felt it this strong was when Daniel and Burt had wanted to kill her. Jesus, had she attracted a Devourer cultist here in Target? She listened and heard nothing. She zipped up her jeans and crouched down to look under the stall door. She saw a lone woman standing by the entrance. Just standing there.

“What do you want?” Sarah called out.

The woman didn’t respond.

“If you mean to harm me, I can scream really loud in this tile bathroom.”

“You wouldn’t dare,” the woman said arrogantly.

“You wanna try me?”

“If you scream, the whole store’s going to find out what you are. You’re not going to blow your little secret.”

“What the fuck are you talking about, lady?”

“We don’t stand for your perverted shit in Middle America. Now come out here and take your punishment like the man you are.”

Sarah didn’t know what to make of this woman, but at least she wasn’t a Devourer cultist. She opened the door and stepped out of the stall, expecting to face her. But the woman, the pretty blonde who had watched her try on hats, dashed right at Sarah and pushed her back into the stall. The woman punched her in the face and clawed at her shirt, pulling it open.

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