Deadly Devotion by Alysia Sofios & Caitlin Rother

Author:Alysia Sofios & Caitlin Rother [Sofios, Alysia]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2011-07-25T20:00:00+00:00

MUCH HAPPIER TIMES came when Linda let them move into her cute little red house with white shutters, which was surrounded by mature redwood trees and a picturesque creek that flowed through the backyard. Elizabeth brought a couple of weeks’ worth of food at a time from the motor home and used it to feed the kids four times a day—more often than ever before. She also let them roam outside, where the children climbed trees, played tag, and jumped into the creek. For the first time, the boys and girls could frolic together in nature with no rules and no fear. It felt like heaven.

They weren’t completely carefree, though. As soon as Marcus got access to a pay phone, he started calling Linda’s house every night to make sure the children weren’t misbehaving, ultimately racking up five hundred dollars in collect calls that Elizabeth’s mother and sister had to pay for.

As the kids passed the phone around, Gypsy nervously watched their expressions change from smiles to frowns within moments. Then it was her turn.

“Hi,” she said with feigned enthusiasm.

“Do you miss me, Gypsy?” Marcus said with self-pity.

“Yes. I can’t wait for you to come home,” she lied.

Even though no one had told her why he was in jail, Gypsy prayed every day that whoever had put him there would hold him as long as possible.

As the months of Marcus’s sentence went on, the Wessons’ lives continued to improve. Now that the kids were eating more, they had gained weight and were healthy, especially after being free from Marcus’s beatings for so long.

Elizabeth was prospering, too. When an acquaintance offered to help her get a driver’s license, Elizabeth cautiously accepted her offer. On Elizabeth’s thirty-first birthday, she filled out the paperwork, took the tests, and proudly left the DMV with her license in hand.

Everything was moving in the right direction until September, when Marcus called Elizabeth. The jail was releasing him, so he told her to pick him up in three days, just after midnight. She had mixed emotions about the news. She was somewhat relieved that he would take over the decision making, but she dreaded the inevitable interrogations about the family’s activities while he’d been away.

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