Abomination by Colleen Coble

Author:Colleen Coble
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

17

SINNERS GATHERED AT THE FISHERIES EVERY NIGHT TO GIVE IN to their flesh. Its blinking neon sign attracted them like bugs. Gideon’s gaze swept the revelers. It wouldn’t be hard to find one deserving of death. He should wait, but something drove him on.

Tonight he was Shiva, the Destroyer.

A group of men and women came reeling from the bar, spilling cigarette smoke and the yeasty odor of beer into the clear air. Their laughter rang into the night. He watched as their little group finally broke apart, each one scurrying to individual cars.

Except for one.

She stood under the watery wash of lamplight looking uncertainly into the darkness. Maybe she felt him hiding there, an avenging puma waiting to rip out her throat. He knew she would come to him though. They always did. Most people tended to ignore that still, small voice inside, dismissed it as superstition.

He knew better.

Dressed in a red dress that barely covered her shapely derriere, and teetering on heels too flimsy to walk in, the woman started toward his hiding place. The silk scarf in his right hand, he waited, his breath catching in his chest.

Fashioning the scarf into a garrote, he was behind her in one movement. Then he had the scarf around her neck, twisting so tightly she couldn’t scream. He dragged her back into the welcoming darkness of the trees.

EVE HADN’T SLEPT A WINK. THE THOUGHT OF LOSING KERI KEPT her tossing and turning most of the night. She needed help. Sitting on the edge of her bed beside a napping Keri, she looked from the phone to the number in her hand. What would she say? And why hadn’t her parents called her? Nick told her he’d spoken with them, given Bree’s number in case they wanted to talk to her.

She slowly punched in the number and gripped the phone while she waited for someone to pick up. Did she look like her mother? Her father? Were she and her brothers close? It was already obvious there was no love lost between her and Patti. While it was ringing, she tended to the plants in her room.

“Ya.” The voice on the other end had a gruff tone as though the woman smoked three packs of cigarettes a day.

“H-hello, this is Eve.” The silence seemed long, but Eve knew it couldn’t have been more than a couple of seconds. She longed to hear her mother’s concern and love.

“Eve,” the gruff voice snapped. “About time, it is! You disappear without a word, to death you worry me and your Fa.” The Swedish accent thickened as she talked.

It took Eve a moment to form a response. Nick said he told them she’d lost her memory. “I’m sorry,” she said. “I—I don’t remember anything.”

“Ya, your Nick, he tell us.”

The silence between them fell heavy and thick. Too thick to saw through with the sharpest blade. Eve didn’t know what questions to ask, how to visualize the woman who raised her.

“I’m afraid,” Eve whispered. “I don’t know anyone.

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