Ability by Shawn Raiford

Author:Shawn Raiford
Language: eng
Format: epub

CHAPTER EIGHT

His presence is bothersome

ALL WOMEN WERE bitches in Neil’s book; he’d learned that as a young man, when his mother left him and Dad for some banker she’d been seeing on the side. Good-old Mom claimed that Dad had verbally abused her and hit her. He never saw his dad hit her. All Neil ever heard, constantly, was his mother complaining about everything. They never had enough money. I want a bigger house! Bigger car! Better furniture! More clothes! His mother never worked a day in her miserable life, but she wanted the life of a princess. Neil was glad when she'd skipped out him and his dad, all those years ago.

From the grave, Beatrice was proving to be a real bitch; her goddamn cousin, Wesley, showed up in the middle of the night, creeping around inside his garage. He did not know what to make of him being here. But his presence meant something. Something Neil hadn't figured out yet.

They were too close. Maybe another six months, or sooner, Brett told him and Shannon, and they could cash out and retire. It had taken them just over two years to get to this point. And they hadn't gotten caught. Neil could taste the money. Then that bitch Beatrice had threatened everything when she discovered the irregularities.

After finding an intruder in the garage and then subduing him, he immediately called Shannon, waking him, “Dude? What the hell?” Shannon said groggily.

“I need you to come over to my house right now!” Neil said.

“Uh, why? I don’t want to drink right now. We work in the morning. I …”

“Shut up dumbass! Her cousin is here!”

“What?” Shannon asked. “Who’s…”

“I caught Beatrice's cousin in in my garage! Wesley Cole. The guy you followed.”

"Yes, I remember him," Shannon said, "I'll be right over." He was at Neil’s house within fifteen minutes. He brought a six pack of beer.

Neil met him outside the garage. He wasn't sure what there were going to do. Was this guy here looking for something? If so, what? They shook Shannon’s hand.

Shannon handed him a beer. “So, what’s the situation? Why is he here?”

“I don't know. The motion detectors in the garage were triggered, woke me up. At first I thought it was the neighbor’s cat again, hunting mice. Couple of weeks ago a cat got in and set off the sensors. My uncle had the house and the garage wired up.” Neil knew about a hole in the soffit, on the south side of the garage. Squirrels entered through there, but wasn't sure how the cat got it. All he needed to do was cover the hole with wood or rabbit-wire mesh. He would be sure to cover it up within the next day or two. He continued. “So, I entered the garage, but it wasn’t the cat. It was Wesley Cole, Beatrice’s cousin. Fucker was looking around in the dark with the light on his phone. Snooping around.”

“He’s still here? Inside?” Shannon asked, pointing to the garage.

“Yeah, he’s inside.

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