Closure by Angela Ford

Author:Angela Ford [Ford, Angela]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Books to Go Now
Published: 2013-07-30T00:00:00+00:00

“Yes. I think so.” She felt sure Mark understood as he simply gave her a smile of reassurance.

“Mrs. Roberts, my neighbor at the beach, told me the same story yesterday. Now, it’s all coming together to make sense. The pictures, the postcards, my dad’s files, your files...but who is this man? Do you think he was my stalker?”

Mark nodded.

“I believe so. I have for a while now. I tracked him to the west coast while you were at Berkley. He watched you, as did I. It was when you started at the FBI that he backed off watching you. It’s as if your joining the FBI scared him off. At first, I thought you were safe and he would leave you alone.”

Jess felt as though she was trying to make somebody else’s feelings and emotions her own. It was one thing to work a case, but to work your own case was completely different than what she usually dealt with. She listened as Mark talked, glancing from his notes to her face.

“His name is Trevor Marshall, the son of a wealthy banker in San Francisco and a prominent family. His mother passed away when he was a little boy. He was raised by servants.”

Mark’s research told the sad and lonely story of a boy who grew up with everything he could possibly need accept first, the love of a mother, and then a father after she died. Jess almost felt sorry for Trevor as she listened to Mark.

“Trevor is highly-educated. He went to Harvard but dropped out of law school his last year. It was there he met his wife-to-be, Susan. They moved back to the west coast to live the highlife off Trevor’s trust fund. A few years later, Susan fled from his abuse to her only living relative in Vineyard Haven. Sadly, the young woman, only twenty-two-years-old, took her life shortly after she arrived there,” Mark told her.

That was the first Jess heard of it. No one else— not Mrs. Roberts or the local authorities in their report—mentioned it. The family must have tried to give her some dignity in the end.

Mark pulled out another picture. This time it was a picture of Susan. Jess raised her hand to her chest and gasped. She felt as though she was looking at a picture of herself. That was it; the reason why Trevor stalked her in the beginning.

“This is a lot to digest, Jess and I’m sorry this all had to come out. I only wanted to honor my partner and keep you out of this like your dad wanted.” Mark said.

“Do you think he is still stalking me? I’m sure I would have noticed if I was being watched.” Jess felt annoyed, not scared.

“Yes, especially after your run-in with him the other night. And then he followed you to the beach. Jess, you never saw him watching you. You never noticed me watching you.”

“What?” Suddenly, Jess remembered the feeling of someone watching her, and then she remembered the pale green truck parked at the end of the driveway.

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