The Serial Killer's Wife by Swartwood Robert

Author:Swartwood, Robert [Swartwood, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: RMS Press
Published: 2011-06-11T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 39

FOR THE FIRST mile or so neither of them spoke. Todd wasn’t wearing his seatbelt and sat at an awkward angle, his butt pointed toward the door, his shoulder pushed into the seat, watching the road behind them as he gripped onto his leg, grimacing.

Then, abruptly, Elizabeth jerked the wheel and slammed on the brakes, the Prius skidding to a halt on the side of the road.

Todd, wide-eyed, stared at her. “What are you doing?”

“We have to go back.”

“What? Why?”

“That’s him. We need to go back, catch him, call the police.”

“Catch him? Elizabeth, this isn’t a game of tag. That guy just shot me.”

She looked at him for the first time, really looked at him, and said, “Elevate your leg.”

“What?”

“Put it up on the dash. Lie back down in your seat. You need to elevate the wound above your heart to control the bleeding.”

“How do you know that?”

She turned toward the backseat, searching for something to use as a tourniquet.

Todd said, “What are you looking for?”

“Give me your shirt.”

“My shirt?”

“Goddamn it, Todd, hurry.”

He started undoing his shirt, fumbling with the buttons. Elizabeth told him not to worry about it and yanked it open, sending several buttons flying around the car. Todd struggled out of the shirt, and she took it and wrapped it around his leg, pulling it as tight as she could.

“We can’t stay here,” she said. “The police will be responding any minute.”

“But isn’t that what we want?”

She thought about it for a moment. “No.”

“What do you mean, no?”

“By now Clarence will be long gone. Our main priority is to save Matthew.”

“You mean your main priority. Jesus Christ, Elizabeth, I just got shot.”

She found a rip in the fabric of his slacks where the bullet had entered. She tore it open enough to inspect the wound.

“It doesn’t look too bad.”

“Are you kidding?”

“The bullet obviously didn’t shatter any bones and it’s definitely not lodged in there. You were basically just grazed.”

Todd sucked air in through his teeth. “That’s comforting. How do you know all of this stuff anyway?”

An eighteen-wheeler roared past them, rocking the hybrid, and Elizabeth placed the car back in gear.

“What are you doing?”

“I told you. We can’t stay here.”

“You’re actually going back?”

“No. Clarence is long gone by now.”

“What about my leg?”

“We’ll take care of it.”

She pulled back onto the highway and they drove for less than a minute before two cop cars whipped past them in the oncoming lane.

Todd said, “How did he find us anyway?”

And that was the question, wasn’t it? How did Clarence find them? How was he able to sneak up on her like that, without even making a sound, sneak up on her like they were old friends and he wanted to spook her for fun?

“Foreman,” she said.

“What? You think he tipped him off?”

She shook her head again. “No, we have to call him. The police will find the room is registered under his name. They’ll go looking for him. Here, give me the phone.”

Todd offered up the BlackBerry and she

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