The Secrets You Hide: A Mind-Blowing Thriller (The Psychosis Series) by Alex Crimson

Author:Alex Crimson [Crimson, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Mystery; Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers & Suspense, Crime, Psychological Thrillers, Teen & Young Adult, Crime Fiction, Noir, Thrillers, Psychological
Amazon: B01AID3B7C
Published: 2016-01-11T05:00:00+00:00

10: Robert’s Recollection – Of Day 10

Talking directly to him wasn’t working. The grip that his obsessions had on him was much stronger than I had presumed. All I could do was to keep trying.

If I had time on my hands, I could have tried to understand the origins of his behavior more closely. I could have dug into his history like an archeologist looking for clues–finding facts where possible, making theories where necessary. I could have deconstructed his mind before trying to fix it. But time was a costly and unpredictable resource. The clock was ticking and I had no idea what it was ticking towards.

It took me seventeen minutes to write the second part of the journal. Once again, seconds after I had sent it across to Jack, my cellphone buzzed.

“Doctor, you managed to send the journal just on time. That’s good. As a favor to you, I want to give you a hint, a clue that might lead you to your wife and daughter. It is something you will find at your clinic. Wouldn’t you want to go look for it?”

I got into my overcoat, put my mobile phone in my pocket, picked up the shoulder bag which was lying next to the table and rushed out of the house. On my way out, I checked my bag to confirm that I had the keys to the clinic’s main door. The only other person with a copy of that key was my receptionist, Alice. She usually locked it on her way out in the evenings.

I got into my car and fired the ignition. The engine coughed to life in the cold night. I pushed the accelerator and soon I was on the long straight road which led to the clinic. The city held an abandoned look, deserted by humanity in every corner. My thoughts circled back to the latest part of the script which Jack had made me read and the journal where I had reproduced most of the words he had written.

However, I soon found myself drifting to the thought of something else, something that I had successfully ignored for a very long time. It was the thought of my father and his last moments when I had been forced to come face-to-face with his worst self.

I reiterated to myself the observation that Jack’s knowledge of my father’s actions was extremely limited at best. All the words that Jack had made me read in his script, all the facts that Jack knew, had been based on news coverage and possibly some police reports that he had managed to get access to. There was no other source of information that could have given him the specifics of what had actually happened. Only one witness had survived that night and it was me. The finer details of that event were locked away in my head, safe from the outside world.

I took refuge in the arbitrage of knowledge that existed between me and Jack. It felt like an advantage I held, however small.

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