Dot to Dot by Emmy Ellis

Author:Emmy Ellis [Ellis, Emmy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-02-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Mike had the day off. He didn’t work Mondays so could spend it killing Peggy as many times as he could manage. Up with the advent of dawn, he showered and let Dot out for a quick wee in the back garden. She snuffled around for a few minutes while he drank his coffee and thought about Deirdre Kaggle.

She lived alone, as far as he’d worked out from watching her for a full week. He’d first seen her in Sainsbury’s when he’d turned into the World Food aisle for some Nerds—he liked those, especially the long rope ones. She’d been stretching up to take a can of Mexican beans off the top shelf, on her tiptoes, grunting with the effort. He’d stopped short, breath catching, and stared, thinking Peggy had come back. His heart hadn’t taken kindly to the sight of her, thumping madly, creating some sort of hollow, as though it didn’t even exist, yet it had beat hard—too hard—so was there all right.

He’d walked up to her and reached for the can, and she’d faced him, her cheeks flushed, and thanked him for helping her out. He hadn’t been bloody helping her out, he’d wanted to check if it was her, and it wasn’t, but his head wasn’t taking any notice of that.

“That’s okay,” he’d said, smiling, and it felt so wrong to do that to her, because she was Peggy in his mind, no matter that it was clear she was someone else. He’d popped the item in her basket and stared at her as she’d waddled away—she’d put on a lot of weight.

She must have sensed him doing it, because she’d turned to look over her shoulder, frowned, then scuttled off, disappearing around the corner, maybe into another aisle or perhaps to linger at the end of this one until he’d gone, feigning a study of the Schwartz spices or whatever the hell was on those shelves.

He’d realised the power he had then, where women were scared of him, and he hadn’t done anything except fetch the can and smile, so it must have been the smile that had done it—and to many ladies on his list since. He’d tried it out just to see, and a lot of them had all but run away from him once he’d shown them his teeth.

It might have been the fact that he slid his tongue over them. Females probably thought he was being a pervert, licking, showing what he wanted to do to them down there, but that wasn’t it at all. Those women brought out uncertainty in him, and that was why he did it.

He’d have to make sure he didn’t lick again when he saw Deirdre. A moment of unease slithered through him at the thought of her recognising him, even with the fake moustache and the hair on his cap. She’d looked right into his eyes in Sainsbury’s and might know them again, especially if he’d given her the creeps like he suspected he had.

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