About Her by Elizabeth Seckman

About Her by Elizabeth Seckman

Author:Elizabeth Seckman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Elizabeth Seckman
Published: 2022-06-23T00:00:00+00:00


CHAPTER 24

Shelly drew back from Tag and glared at him. “You are such an ass.”

“Come on. It’s a joke,” Tag laughed. He jerked her into him holding her tight to his side. Still laughing, he leaned closer as if the dumb SOB thought she’d offer him a kiss for his efforts at humiliating her.

As his mouth came closer, smelling of liquor and cigarettes, Shelley swung her fist and struck him with an uppercut to the chin. His head flopped back, slamming the side of his head into a cast iron ship’s bell hanging from the wall. The contact left a gash in his temple that instantly gushed blood.

Shelley jumped back.

Tag grabbed his head. Blood covered his hands. “Don’t ever touch me again, you stupid little prick. You need to grow the hell up. Fast.” Shelley stomped down the stairs and out the front door.

“Shelley,” Mark yelled from behind her.

She didn’t want to talk to him. Not yet.

The cottage door opened, and she could hear his footsteps moving down the steps.

The island was shrouded in darkness with street lamps few and far between. It was easy to duck into the shadows and watch as Mark walked past her down the street, calling her name. She felt a little guilty for hiding, but not guilty enough to make her presence known.

He called her name again before circling back to the driveway. As he approached, Shelley ducked out of the shadows and into a three-foot overgrown oleander next to the driveway.

“Damn it.” Mark’s words broke the stillness of the night.

The cottage door opened, and more footsteps came down the stairs. “Hey, Mark, is Shelley all right?” It was Cam.

“Evidently not, because she’s gone. Just disappeared. Where the hell would she go?”

“I don’t have a clue. Have you tried calling her?”

“Yeah, but it keeps going to voicemail. She must’ve turned off her phone on the way down here.”

“She couldn’t have gone far,” Cam suggested.

“I know, but in what direction?”

“Call her.”

“I told you; it’s turned off.”

Cam must not have believed she would turn her phone off, because she heard her voicemail greeting coming from his phone.

“Did you fucking think I was lying?” Mark spat.

“Why the hell would she turn off her phone?”

“Fucking Tag. Fucking little shit.” There was a clatter of metal on pavement. Shelley wondered if Mark kicked or threw something? Maybe the beach chairs by the stairs? She was curious, but not curious enough to poke her head from inside the bushes. Mark’s tirade continued, “I get so damned tired of him.”

Shelley bit her lip.

“Amen to that,” Cam said. “How the hell did that bastard survive cancer?”

“Too damned mean to die.”

The door opened again. “Did you guys find her?” It was Hayden’s voice.

“No. . . It’s like she disappeared,” Mark said.

“Maybe she went to the beach for a walk,” Hayden said. “She’s probably embarrassed.”

“Do you think that might be it?” Mark’s voice oozed sarcasm. “What a fucking epiphany.”

“You don’t have to be rude,” Hayden countered.

“Sorry. I’m just so sick of that little shit; I could kill him.



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