Never Be Safe: A Suspense Thriller by Ray Backley

Author:Ray Backley [Backley, Ray]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Independently published
Published: 2021-02-28T22:00:00+00:00

It took Dan twenty-five minutes to reach the station.

It was a lot of time to think. His love for Cath was definitely still there – that could never go away completely in such a short space of time. But he had to accept that he’d been lied to – lied to big time. The woman he’d been in love with all these years wasn’t exactly a different person now – her personality hadn’t changed in the space of a couple of days – and yet, the many years of deceit were hard to swallow.

By the time he reached the station, he still wasn’t a hundred percent sure what he wanted to do with the rest of his life. Yes, he’d told Cath he didn’t want a divorce; yes, he’d agreed with her when she’d talked about coming out of this stronger as a couple; the problem was, now that he was away from her, he wasn’t so sure. What he did know was that he’d done so much thinking his head hurt. And there was a job to do. He had the return journey to decide exactly what he might say to Cath when he got back.

He parked, hurried into the station, and seethed at the injustice for fifteen minutes while he lined up. At the desk he bit his tongue, remembering to behave himself, while he filled in the necessary forms.

“Hi, it’s me,” he said from his car in the parking lot a few minutes later. “Got my cell back.”

“Cool.”

“And I didn’t cause a scene, didn’t give them any hassle, even though they deserve it.”

“It’s for the best, Dan. Hurry back.”

“I will. And, uh . . .”

“What?”

“I’m sorry I was in a mood earlier. I, uh . . . I love you, Cath.”

“I love you too, Dan. And I always will. Drive carefully.”

He hung up and started the engine. He waited a moment, remembering what he’d thought on the way over: whether he still loved her, how he felt about the deceit, the realistic option of divorce. And he felt awful. He shouldn’t have been thinking such things at a time like this. None of it mattered; none of it would ever matter until Phoebe was back safely with them. She was the most important thing in their lives right now.

He drove off, but didn’t want his mind fogged up any more than it already was, so decided to listen to some loud rock music on the drive back to the Toledo Motel.

He only switched the music off when he was approaching the Motel. It was an awkward turn in from a narrow road, so he pulled to one side to let the car behind pass on through. But the jerk just pulled up too, a foot or so behind him. Dan waited, but so did the car, a battered old Toyota sedan, Dan guessed, white, one guy inside. Whatever the guy’s problem was, he wasn’t going to move. Dan cursed, pulled as wide as he safely could, and carefully steered to enter the parking lot.

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