Innocence Taken by Victoria M. Patton

Author:Victoria M. Patton [Patton, Victoria M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dark Force Press
Published: 2017-03-30T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

Dillon stared him dead in the eye. She took a long breath in and blew it out. “When I was twelve, my mother, father and three brothers were murdered by a man my mom had an affair with.” She paused, took a sip of beer, trying to relieve her parched throat. Her hand shook as she lifted the beer to her mouth.

Damien placed his beer on the coffee table and turned back towards her. He reached over, took the bottle from her. He moved his hand when she grabbed it.

“My room had been at the end of a long hallway kind of set off in a little alcove. A noise like a firecracker woke me up. I figured my brothers were playing a trick or some sort of joke on the family. I peeked out through my doorway, and I saw a man coming out of my brother’s room carrying a gun, he didn’t see me. I closed my door and got in my closet; in this cubbyhole behind my clothes.”

Dillon spoke just above a whisper; the tears came in a steady stream. “I could hear my mother screaming. She kept asking George why and begged him to stop. My father yelled for my mom to run. George shot him twice in the head. Then he raped and killed my mother. All the time he screamed at her if he couldn’t have her, no one else could. I could hear her screams while he raped her.”

Dillon squeezed Damien’s hand. Her body shook as the fear she had felt that night washed over her. “I could hear him in my room, searching under the bed and moving things around in my closet. At some point, I know the front door opened and closed.” She laughed at the memory. She wiped her face with her sleeve. “The door always had this squeak that my dad could never fix. It became a running joke between us kids. We teased him endlessly about it.

“I recognized the police when they entered the house, but I still stayed in the cubbyhole. I must have fallen asleep or fainted—I’m not sure which. I’m not sure how much time passed before they located me. I’d been there so long I couldn’t walk. I couldn’t even get out by myself. An officer had to carry me down the stairs to the paramedics.

“I recounted the whole incident to them. Everything that I witnessed and heard. I gave them George’s name and that he had a gun. They arrested him, and I testified at the trial. He is currently on death row. That happened sixteen long years ago. It feels like yesterday.” When she looked into Damien’s eyes, she saw more than just sadness. Something much more than that. Something that made her heart beat faster.

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