Remember Me by D. E. White

Author:D. E. White
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780008322045
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2018-11-14T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

That was fun. It was so much fun I almost forgot to visit the girl. She surprised me a bit today – clearly she has a feisty side, and being with me has brought out a better side of her character. Suffering is good for some people. Luckily, I prepared for a cold snap, but the weather is showing no sign of lifting. How disappointing if she dies before Ava has a chance to save her.

Honestly, the number of ridiculous mistakes people keep making, it truly makes my mind spin. If I didn’t love Ava, I would have killed her for spilling any secrets to the law. As it is, she is doing well, and the game is taking some pretty interesting twists. Ellen’s death has always been fairly low on my list of secrets, anyway, and I have a number of options prepared for the police. Unlike certain other people, for years I have been sure that at some point Ellen’s body would be discovered. Therefore, I laid down plans to cover this eventuality. I have adjusted the board to reflect my players. Only one has been retired so far, which means the others have everything to play for.

Alex Jennington was an easy kill. I didn’t bother with any games – not when I have the girl locked away, and Ava so close. It was quick, and he was still half-asleep. I think he was rather excited by the idea of his new source, and I assured him I had thought long and hard about divulging this key bit of information.

I can’t be sure he wasn’t recording our initial call, and where that might be stored, so I kept it fairly vague and semi-formal. It wasn’t until I met him in the darkness by the old primary school that I was able to ascertain he had put all the facts together. He still didn’t know who had killed Ellen, but he did know about something else. It would have pissed Ellen off, to know this isn’t just all about her. She always was a selfish bitch. Beautiful, but a bitch.

It made my skin prickle with anger as Alex Jennington described his plans to gather more evidence. His rather colourless voice was lit up with excitement and interest. There was pity, too, and that burned my soul. Pity is one of the most disgusting of human emotions. It is one of the reasons I have arranged things as I have.

It was just too bad he had stumbled on this particular secret in the course of his investigation. I had hoped he might get distracted elsewhere. All he really needed to do was find out enough to tell the Smiths their daughter was probably dead, and it might have been Jesse who killed her. End of story. The police were never going to waste time on a ‘maybe’ cold case, and the parents could depart knowing that the reason their daughter never contacted them was because she was probably dead. Jesse was dead, so there was no line of investigation.

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