Too Late to Say Goodbye: A True Story of Murder and Betrayal by Ann Rule

Author:Ann Rule [Ann Rule]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General, Murder, Investigation, True Crime, Biography, Case Studies, Georgia, Murder Victims
ISBN: 9780743460514
Google: WEE54RYydWAC
Amazon: 0743460510
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2007-11-20T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

NOVEMBER 2004

JENN’S HOPES LAY IN ASHES. There was nothing for her to look forward to. Bart was urging her to stay in their marriage, but he was still involved with Dara. Jenn had long accepted that her marriage was based on a fragile foundation that could crack and crumble any moment. And, finally, it had. Only now it didn’t matter to her. She had no one at all to love, and Dara could have Bart.

The working balance in the Corbins’ marriage had shifted. Jenn had been the first to bring up the subject of divorce. And that triggered a conditioned response in Bart. It was imperative that he be the one to walk away from a relationship with a woman. Gradually, with Jenn, he had lost control, and control was everything to him.

Jenn didn’t tell her mother, her sister Heather, or her best friend Juliet that she had discovered “Chris” was really “Anita.” She was too embarrassed to admit that they had been right all along; she had been deceived. They sensed something was wrong, but she couldn’t bring herself to convey how devastated she was. She had kept the depth of her feelings for his virtual stranger secret. They had certainly known she was happy and excited about the new person in her life, but Jenn’s love for Chris had been far more intense than anyone knew.

Jenn’s family had seen for themselves how moody Bart could be, and observed traces of the rage that often smoldered just below the surface. Although they empathized greatly with her unhappiness, they still considered Bart a member of their family, albeit one who would move out of their close inner circle after the New Year. There had been so many happy times together, and all in all, their holidays together had been warm and serene.

Now they were all saddened to think that Jenn and Bart might actually get divorced, and that their little boys might grow up without both parents there for them. Bart had been with her family for every holiday since 1995. At least Jenn and Bart had agreed to celebrate the holidays as always—together. And perhaps it was still possible that they would make up their differences as they went through the family traditions.

But as Thanksgiving 2004 approached, Jenn confessed to her mother that she was sometimes afraid that Bart was capable of hurting her physically. She said he was so angry with her that he frightened her. But physical violence? No, that seemed impossible to Narda. She assured Jenn that, whatever she chose to do, she and Max would stand behind her. That was a given.

Jenn tried to act cheerful for Dalton and Dillon. She knew now why her “Sir Tank” had been so hesitant to come to Georgia, or send a photograph, or even call her on the phone. Heather and Narda had warned Jenn that she couldn’t possibly know who a stranger she had met on the Internet really was, and she had brushed aside their qualms.

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