This Changes Everything by Darrell Maloney

Author:Darrell Maloney [Maloney, Darrell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-12-14T05:00:00+00:00

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It was done. The decision was made.

It was time to start putting their escape plan into motion.

Of course, it would be months before they could actually make their move.

But that didn’t mean they couldn’t start their preparations.

Frank was convinced that gathering provisions would be the riskiest part of their plan.

On “go night,” merely walking out of the building would be as easy as opening one of the doors on the far side of the building and slipping through it.

That would be the easiest part of their plan.

The problem was they’d have several other critical tasks to perform before that night, to make sure their getaway was a success.

“Critical” because failure to perform such tasks, and to perform them well, might turn their escape into a double suicide.

The tasks would have to be performed under the noses of Josie’s relatives.

One slip-up would expose their plan and incur the wrath of the family.

It might not bode well for Frank.

For while they’d never dream of harming Josie, most of the Dykes family regarded Frank as expendable.

Discovering their escape plan would enable them to claim to Josie they were right from the beginning.

“We told you he was just using you,” they’d tell her. “He pretended to fall in love with you just so he could convince you to help him escape. It was all a ruse, right from the start. He wanted you to help him set up his escape and go with him. Just so he could leave you on the side of the road dead somewhere.”

In all probability their words would fall on deaf ears.

In all likelihood Josie wouldn’t believe them. And Frank wouldn’t be allowed to argue in his own defense, for surely they’d knock him cold or hold a gun to his head and tell him to shut up when he tried.

They likely wouldn’t convince anyone with their arguments that Frank had ill intents since day one.

But that wouldn’t matter.

The failed escape attempt would make it easier to shoot Frank dead in front of Josie. They might even do it while they were next to one another so he fell dead at her feet.

Once he was dead her argument to save him would be moot. And their argument would be stronger, for it would no longer face any opposition.

“We’re sorry we had to do that,” they’d tell a furious and heartbroken Josie. “But you weren’t thinking straight because you were in love.

“In time you’ll heal and will understand we killed Frank to save your life.”

They’d discussed this scenario many times and knew it to be a very real possibility.

Frank and Josie had discussed it, that is.

The Dykes hadn’t discussed it because they had no clue their Josie had any plans to escape.

It was imperative that Josie and Frank keep them in the dark.

They tended to disappear into the bowels of the darkened warehouse each afternoon when Crazy Eddie took his daily nap.

Josie passed it off to her brothers as hers and Frank’s only chance to have some privacy and time to themselves.

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