What's Become of Her by Deb Caletti

Author:Deb Caletti
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2017-04-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

Weary is angry. He is raging, stomping, furious. It’s a beautiful, blooming anger. It opens like a flower, or like the jawed pod, the carnivorous clamshell mouth of the Nepenthes pitcher plant. Maybe he should be furious with New Haven Providence instead of with Henry North. No! Since he opened his bedroom computer on this balmy winter night and saw the check deposited into Henry’s account, he’s raging at both of them and at everything in general. He wants to light things on fire or start an earthquake.

How was Weary able to see this deposit? None of your business. Let’s just say people should change their passwords. Let’s just say even people who are supposedly so smart are stupid, the way they keep a favorite word for years on end, the way they choose something utterly predictable (Nevermore? Please), the way they use the same password on every account from their old university email to phone companies to banks to online stores. Let’s just say that if you think he’s only been snooping in ShutR and a single Visa bill all this time (his best sources, granted), you’re kidding yourself.

What the hell is up with New Haven Providence? Police, insurance investigators—it all could have stopped there. It should have stopped—finis! Complète!—if people were doing their jobs. Weary could have folded up shop right then, went back to his quiet life among the Corvus.

Idiots! Losers in leisure suits, fat men in uniforms! He knew this would happen, too. He knew it! And nothing, nothing, makes you more furious than being proven correct. Just as he suspected when Sarah disappeared, after news reports started dwindling, after there were no more revelations of late-night fights or drunk arguments on boats, after Virginia’s relatives retreated back into their lives, after detectives made only one measly phone call to the New Caledonia Corvus Research Facility and Sanctuary to ask questions—it’s essentially over, from an official standpoint. The insurance check is written, and the police and DAs have pretty much moved on to cases they can solve and prosecute. His last hope for a legitimate solution is gone. Henry North escapes punishment! Twice! And he goes on his merry way with a fat wad of cash!

No one will care about Sarah anymore. No one’s cared about Virginia for a long time.

It’s up to Weary now.

And it’s up to Isabelle. Poor Isabelle.

It’s time, anyway. The ring, plus the passage of a few months, means Henry North has started the peck, peck, peck at Isabelle’s spirit, Weary is sure. This is what happened with Sarah as soon as commitment entered the picture, and Henry North will keep on being his insecure and narcissistic self, sure as corvid Yves will be sneaky and Little Black will be gentle and Corbie will be aggressive when thwarted.

After the ring and the wedding, the slide was swift for Sarah. Why did she stay? Why does any woman (or man, for that matter) stay? The swiftness of the slide is part of it, that’s what people don’t understand.

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