Dark Prison by Lori Ryan

Author:Lori Ryan [Ryan, Lori]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-941149-88-1
Publisher: Lori Ryan
Published: 2019-06-25T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Eve didn’t go straight to the office. She went to the gym on the bottom floor of the police precinct and changed into sweats and a t-shirt for a session on the heavy bag. Her punches and kicks were not disciplined and precise the way they usually were. But that wasn’t what she was going for now. She was going for an outlet, release for the anger that had built inside her.

It helped a little. And while she showered, she got an idea. Back in front of her computer twenty minutes later, she googled the church and looked for people who had left it. People who might have a story to tell, who might be able to give her some insight into what was really happening behind those doors.

She found a woman in Nevada who blogged about women’s rights and political activism, but also mentioned her mother had left the church when she was a young girl. The woman’s mother had died four years ago, but she could see what the woman remembered.

Eve got the woman’s number and picked up the phone to dial.

“Shelly Stamp?” Eve asked and then identified herself and explained why she was calling, that she was looking for information on the church.

“I don’t know how much I can tell you. I was only three when my mom got us out of there, so I don’t remember anything.”

“Did your mom tell you about the church? Is there anything she might have talked about that could give us some idea of what’s happening in the compound?”

That’s how Eve had started to think about it. It was a compound. They were walled in and protective, as much as they tried to pretend otherwise. Any information they’d given her had been on the surface level only. And her gut said it was all a façade.

The woman paused, then offered, “She was afraid of them, I can tell you that much. It’s why she moved us away from there. She didn’t talk about them much but sometimes she would mention how it was normal until the 1980s. Then it started getting really strict and strange. The women in the church had always been subservient to the men, but they started things like a bleeding house where women went when they menstruated. They were seen as dirty.”

Eve could hear the bite in the woman’s tone. It’s no wonder she was an advocate for women’s rights.

“My mom thought there might have been wife sharing going on, but she wasn’t sure. It was enough for her to leave, though.”

Eve scribbled notes as the woman talked. “Can you think of anything else? Anyone in particular she mentioned?”

“She talked once about the reverend’s wife. Grace or Faith or something like that. All the women went into confinement when they were pregnant. They went into it for like the last four weeks or something, like being pregnant was some shameful thing like with the bleeding house. But the reverend’s wife took it to the extreme. She went into confinement for almost her entire pregnancy every time she had a kid.

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