The Killing Queens by L. E. Boyd

Author:L. E. Boyd [Boyd, L. E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781717774637
Published: 2019-11-04T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10:The Trap

On the way back to her mansion, Martha looked out of the window of her SUV. She stared at the night sky filled with stars, clouds, and the moon, thinking about all things in the past, present, and future.

She looked to the seat beside her where her assigned man sat. He was tall and thin with olive skin. He had soft brown eyes and a bald head that shone in the moonlight.

“Excuse me, ma’am. When will you give me a name?” he asked.

“A name?” she repeated. Martha thought to herself, then clicked his remote off so he went into dormant state where his eyes closed and his head drooped as he went into temporary slumber.

“We’ll work on that,” she said in the darkness.

At the mentioning of names of men, the memories the men she had dated or tried to date in her youth came to mind. Even though she was secretly and semi-happy with her marriage to Kelly, he was her second husband.

The road to and from her first husband was long and filled with blood.

Thinking back to early 2010, Martha had moved out of Florida where she grew up to the new revitalized city of Detroit. While it a had a rough decade after the city filed bankruptcy, it had gradually improved over the years.

Martha had earned an entry level position at the Ford engineering headquarters. She prided herself on not only being a good employee but the best employee. Within her first two years at the company, she had been promoted from training engineer to junior engineer. She was committed to her job, staying late to do extra work and to build models, and test her inventions. After years of long nights and long day, one of her inventions was taken seriously and created.

Martha was proud to see her rainbow of tiny cubes rolling up and down roads, saving people thousands of dollars in money while at the same time, saving million in air cleaning filters, saving the planet at the time before they would be maximized before becoming useless.

As she continued with her work in engineering, she gained great wealth from her inventions and patents as well as speeches she gave in regards to being an inventor. While she was satisfied and content with her work, she wanted what so many women were raised to have: a husband.

Martha searched with everything she could to find the perfect man. Dating apps, blind dates, dirty parties, you name it, she did it. And while she did date men, for the most part they were all truly unavailable to her. The years went by and as her awards collected on the mantle in her luxurious and renovated Victorian mansion in the suburbs outside of Detroit. She was twenty-eight, a near millionaire engineering phenom, and yet unmarried and in the eyes of many including her mother, she was unsatisfactory.

“Maybe you just need to try harder. Look harder. Attack dating like you attack your work,” her mother, Virginia, said to her as she sat on the backyard porch, looking out at her swimming pool as she brought out lemonade.

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