Deadly Obsession by OMJ Ryan

Author:OMJ Ryan [Ryan, OMJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Inkubator Books
Published: 2021-04-25T06:00:00+00:00

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Gabe parked the van up behind the dilapidated old out-house and switched off the engine. He sat in silence for a long moment, replaying the events of the evening in his mind. He felt exhilarated, but as the adrenaline began to fade, he sensed the onset of exhaustion. It was close to 2 a.m., and he really should be getting home, but he couldn’t resist going inside the house to see his father and share the details of his latest kill. Plus, he needed to clean himself up. A few minutes later, he walked through the filthy old kitchen, where he deposited his bag on the table, then strode into his father’s room. His father appeared to be asleep, the only sound in the small space the low hiss coming from the oxygen tubes inserted in his nose. But as Gabe approached the side of the bed, Bert’s eyes shot open.

‘You’ve decided to grace me with your presence, have you?’ he rasped, then began coughing. ‘I could die in here and you’d never know!’

As ever, his father knew exactly how to bring him crashing back down to earth. ‘Oh, shut up!’ Gabe sneered.

Bert’s eyes dropped slowly to Gabe’s coat sleeves, which were spattered with blood. ‘What’s that on your coat?’

‘Exactly what it looks like.’

‘Blood?’

‘Yes.’

‘Human blood?’

Gabe smiled wickedly, and nodded.

‘Why, boy?’

‘You know why. To hurt you like you hurt me.’

‘This has to stop, boy. Now.’

‘It stops when I say it stops,’ said Gabe.

Bert shook his head and tears welled in his eyes. ‘To think the good Lord took my Maggie and left me with you. A pitiful excuse of a man and a human being.’

‘Oh, don’t start with all that again. I’ve heard it a million times before.’

‘And you’ll never stop hearing it, will you?’ Bert coughed violently. ‘Because even when I’m dead, you’ll still hear my voice, reminding you what a total waste of life you are. A useless, pathetic child who grew up into an even more pathetic man. I didn’t think it was possible, but you finally exceeded my expectations.’

Gabe breathed heavily through his nose, his jaw clenching as he tried desperately to contain his rage. ‘Say what you want, you spiteful old bastard, but I’ll be the one laughing when this is done. When I reveal to the world that you, the great Detective Sonny, spawned a brutal killer, then sat and watched while he murdered, over and over again.’

‘Sat and watched? What am I supposed to do when you’ve locked me up in here, like a prisoner in my own home? No phone or contact with the outside world. I don’t even have a window, for God’s sake!’

‘Well, now you know how I felt as a kid, trapped in this god-forsaken shit hole in the middle of nowhere. No friends to play with nearby, no visitors ever allowed to come to the house. Just you, a drunken old man, bringing whores home to fuck in my mother’s bed, then beating the shit out of me because I had the audacity to cry myself to sleep.

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