Too Far Gone (The Bishop Smoky Mountain Thrillers Book 6) by Lauren Street

Author:Lauren Street [Street, Lauren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sterling & Stone
Published: 2024-04-09T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Aunt Daisy kept screaming for a few minutes after she was sure that Mitch and Rileigh had left. Then she quieted. Her throat was raw from shrieking, but it had been worth the effort to end that conversation. She lay on her bed, trussed up in restraints, and looked at the ceiling, wondering whether or not they’d bought the load of shit she was selling. It had appeared to her that they had. But if Jillian was coming home, that meant she’d got away from them people who’d had her for the last twenty-seven years. Daisy didn’t know how them things worked, but she was fair-to-middling sure that they didn’t give you a vacation from that business. No, if Jillian was here, it meant she’d somehow got away. And if she had, then it was a damn good thing Daisy had done what she’d done with Lily.

She lay quietly in her bed for about fifteen minutes, then began to call the nurse, not in some squeaky hysterical voice, just a mild, “Hey, can anybody hear me? Hello out there.”

Pretty soon, one of the nurses came in, and Daisy asked, as polite as a choir boy, if she wouldn’t please take the restraints off, because they were so tight. When it was clear to the hospital staff that she was no longer hysterical, they came in and unfastened the restraints and let her up.

“I do appreciate it,” she told the fat blonde nurse with the little bitty eyes, “I need to pee something fierce.”

As soon as Daisy had done her business, she went to the door of her room and listened, making sure there was no one within earshot who could hear what she was about to do. Then she took out the cell phone she wasn’t supposed to have, the one that Lily had given her and that the last administrator of the Carrington House, who turned out to be crazier than a nuclear waste dump rat, had allowed her to keep.

That man was living proof that the real wackos were out there on the streets, not locked up in the institutions. By the time they’d hauled him away, everybody had forgotten about Daisy’s cell phone, so she kept it hidden.

Daisy was self-aware enough to grasp that she was mentally ill. She understood that seeing the love of her life hanging dead in the barn that day had broken something in her mind. She had swirled down into a really dark place after that, and when she finally came back, she wasn’t the same woman she’d been when she left. She still wasn’t. She understood that there were times when she did totally lose her shit and didn’t respond to reality the way a normal person would, and she was okay with that. At least her life wasn’t boring.

But Daisy was also crafty enough to grasp that she could use her propensity to go batshit to her own advantage when she needed to, and she hauled it out whenever it suited her life circumstances, as it had done earlier this evening.

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