These Ghosts Bleed by Christy Aldridge

Author:Christy Aldridge [Aldridge, Christy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-06-08T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FORTY

Allen spent all day bleaching his house. He had to open the windows because the smell was too strong, and that was just as bad of a sign as having bloody carpet. Most people used bleach to get rid of blood. It was another one of those easily stupid choices that could land someone in jail.

Allen washed everything. Every doorknob, anything he had touched, until he was about sick of cleaning, but he knew stopping now would be the worst mistake. There were too many possibilities that someone could come in and see the damning evidence still left behind.

He pulled the carpet up before sunset, choosing to go ahead and get the entire staircase at once. He placed all of the bloody carpet in his pit and then some of the good carpet over it. While he took a quick shower and changed his clothes, no one would suspect anything.

His shower took only a few minutes. He mostly just wanted to rinse off and he would finish later. He took his bloody clothes to the pit and lit a fire, grabbed a beer and spent the rest of the night burning the carpet and his clothes.

Now he had to figure out how to dispose of Cordelia and her car.

He knew he had to get rid of it, but he also had to be sure no one knew he had done so. Having it found was a risk, but so was finding something else to do with it. Having it crushed would present a problem because they’d know it was him that had it crushed. He could always push it into a lake, but if it was found, they’d know something had happened to Cordelia.

He wanted to make it look like she ran away. He checked her purse and found her credit card. He took her phone and ordered a bus ticket. After he was done, he burned her purse. He then drove her car to the bus station, a few towns over and parked it there.

His idea was that she ordered the ticket and came. Whether or not she left, Allen wouldn’t know because he hadn’t seen her. This was, of course, if they managed to track her back to him at all. He hitchhiked his way back to his house as close as possible. He wasn’t worried that anyone would recognize him because he had made sure to disguise himself as much as possible, to not stand out.

This idea was still risky. He knew that, but once again, no body, no crime. They couldn’t prove she hadn’t been kidnapped or hitched a ride with a trucker no more than he could. Her body was being frozen. They’d need something substantial to search his home, and there would be no proof that Cordelia had actually come to see him.

Allen took another shower and went over the house again. He made a list of what he would need when he went to the hardware store, looked over the house again, and then finally went to bed.

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