The Killing Club by L.C. James

Author:L.C. James
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: thrillers, serial killers, child killers, women who kill, killing club, suspense, 99 cent suspense, 99 cents thrillers
Publisher: Blackberry Publishing
Published: 2020-02-09T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

Lydia must have been an enigma to the cops standing in the room. And the ones that would come to her house to question her in the days following the death of her son. They would wonder why she had grieved for only one day. Why she had a calm façade on the outside. Why she even smiled at those who came to check on her.

The counsellor told the cops that Lydia was unstable. She recommended Lydia be put in the care of someone else. But the police didn’t have the authority to force her to call her sister or aunt or go stay with her parents on the west coast.

The counsellor said that Lydia was bottling her emotions, and that very soon she would erupt in the most violent ways. She was right. But not about the first part. Lydia wasn’t bottling her emotions. She had come to accept them. The rage. The bitterness. The anger. The thirst for vengeance. Surely, she would explode in a very violent way, but it would be one which would bring to justice the man who had raped her son and butchered him in such a gruesome way.

Lydia didn’t make a move until the cops stopped coming to ask her question. The ones who were assigned to watch her had been reassigned to other cases, and she was finally free from the watchful eyes of the neighbors. Even at work, people didn’t ask her how she was doing anymore. It was the third day after Nolan had been buried. Everyone expected that she had moved on, or at least was well on her way to moving on such that she didn’t need any reminder of what had happened.

Also, when they saw that she hadn’t done anything stupid or didn’t seem to be on the path to doing something stupid, they stopped watching her or checking up on her. Even the counsellor stopped calling or coming.

The town had moved on.

But not Lydia. Now she could take action. First, she called the female cop one morning. It was the same morning she had resigned from both her works and she had pulled out all the cash she had in the bank account. Adding to the salary she just got paid, she had a little above ten thousand dollars.

Ten thousand dollars was enough money to carry out the successful murder of one man.

“Hello,” said the woman.

“This is Lydia Johnson speaking,” Lydia said.

A slight brouhaha followed. Lydia waited calmly for the woman to recover from her shock. She had chosen this particular woman for a reason. Her name was Tessa Thomas. Lt TT as she was called in her unit. She had a son, too.

Lt. TT felt terrible that she had shown Lydia the butchered body of her son, which was not only unprofessional (and a punishable offence under the police code), but also morally wrong. Lydia didn’t press charges, neither did she stick it in Lt. TT’s face. This made Lt. TT pliable to Lydia’s every whim, and Lydia had chosen today to collect.

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