She Lies Beneath: An Unputdownable Domestic Psychological Sinister Thriller…Beneath Series Book One… by Kate Mitchell

Author:Kate Mitchell [Mitchell, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-09-23T04:00:00+00:00

21

Eyes

One of the few telephone calls happened that morning. Karlie, who for a change had decided to come early picked up the receiver just as she walked in. It annoyed Adley seeing her doing this, making herself at home here in this makeshift chalet.

‘Hi,’ she said as if she was talking to someone of her own age.

Barbara didn’t even bother to look up.

‘What,’ she frowned and shrugged before giggling. ‘It's for you,’ she held out the receiver to Adley.

He took it angrily thinking that when he hung up, he would have a word with her about her familiarity.

‘There's been a sighting,’ Adley said without thinking to Barbara.

Karlie looked up; she was interested. ‘A sighting of what?’ asked Karlie, taking her jacket off.

Barbara now raised her head; her attention had been aroused. Adley nodded his head towards the door so that they could talk in private. Quitting her work, Barbara followed Adley into the living room. Closing the door behind him, he was aware that Barbara was disconcerted and afraid.

‘What is it,’ whispered Barbara showing signs of stress and anxiety.

‘There's been a report that someone believes they've seen Selah.’

‘But that's impossible,’ her eyes were large with incredulity.

‘I know, but they have to check it out for their investigation.’

‘Is this some sort of joke they’re playing on us, trying to make us lose our minds?’

‘It feels like it, but no, I think someone actually believes they've seen Selah, and this child apparently has also got a limp. She’s about the same age as Selah, and so, everything seems to fit. She's the very image of Selah.’ Adley was feeling very confused although he was trying his best to make sense out of what was happening.

‘Adley,’ Barbara's voice was strange, it caused him to look up, a surge of fear ran up and down his back. ‘When you took Selah to the quayside and rowed her out...’

He knew what she was going to say. ‘No Barbara, when I threw her out to sea, she was dead, there was no chance that she could be still alive and remain alive once she had hit the water... And if she had not,’ his voice lowered as his thoughts chased after him, one after another. ‘Then, after a couple of minutes, she would be...’

‘But perhaps she wasn't, perhaps, there was air in the beach bag, it was made of some sort of plastic wasn't it?’

‘No Barbara, stop it now. When I picked her up, I knew she was gone.’

‘Are you certain, are you sure?’ Barbara spoke quickly, greedily. ‘You could have been wrong. She could have just been stunned; did you take her pulse?’

‘No Barbara, I didn't think, I panicked, but she was dead. She was dead when I put her in the bag. And she was dead when I threw her out to sea,’ and then he remembered Selah's voice calling out daddy to him. He put his hand up to his mouth, the diabolical thought came to him. It was so perverse and bizarre that he wanted to laugh having ever considered it.

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