Hatchet by E.L. Reed

Author:E.L. Reed [Reed, E.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Emma Leigh Reed

Chapter 24

He was sitting at the kitchen table when I entered the house. He never ventured downstairs without permission. As I leaned against the doorframe, he looked up at me.

“Where is she?”

I smiled. “Where’s who?”

“Mary.” He looked at his hands. “They came looking for her.”

He caught my attention with that. “Who came looking for her?”

He reached for a card on the table. “This young man.” I took the card from his hand and stared at it. Detective Wesley Dawson. How inconvenient. Now I’d need to change my plans. I wanted all this done.

As I stared at the card, a calm settled about me. A flash shot through my memory; a picture that looked so familiar, yet I couldn’t place it. Pigeons. I hated the birds, yet I envisioned a coop with a dozen of them inside. The image was gone as quick as it had come, and in its wake, was the start of a migraine.

“Get upstairs,” I snapped at the old man.

He stood slowly and shuffled past me. “Where is my Mary?”

“She’s dead.” The words came out before I thought about it and saw the tears that came to the man’s eyes. “Oh, stop your sniveling and get upstairs with your friends. And if you talk to this man again, your daughter, Beth, will soon be with your wife.”

I dropped into the chair at the table—the business card still in my hand—and held my head. The pain had become unbearable, and I needed something for it. I reached for a pill bottle in the center of the table, but stopped before I could grab it. Another flash, an ax with blood dripping. I was losing my mind. These weren’t my memories. They couldn’t be.

As the migraine increased, the voices got louder and louder. I held my head, screaming for the voices to stop. I needed more time. More time to finish what I’d started. I would not fail. No. It wasn’t an option. The voices taunted me, telling me I was no good, that I would fail. Yet the flashes continued to show me the way, and despite what I was hearing, I knew I’d done it once before and had gotten away with it, and therefore, I could do it again and again if necessary.

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