The Evolution of Evil by Steven F. Freeman

Author:Steven F. Freeman [Freeman, Steven F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-06-26T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 35

Wendy Chin focused on keeping her breathing steady. Only after exiting Rios’ police vehicle did she allow herself to release her breath.

Heading directly for her resort’s guest parking lot, she climbed into her rented Porsche 911 and accelerated onto the road fronting the property. She snaked the sleek, yellow sports car around a mountain highway on her way to the harbor town of Puerto Ayora. As she drove, she contemplated her interview with the investigators. The words she had told them were true—at least, mostly true. She felt reasonably confident that they had not detected her unspoken truth.

Her childhood had proven the ideal training-ground for such concealment. She certainly hadn’t considered it ideal for anything at the time. At a young age, she had found herself caught between an alcoholic father whose moods alternated between rage and uncomfortable affection and a dishpan mother incapable of standing up for her daughter. The young Wendy had soon learned the only method of placating her unbalanced father: the suppression of all emotion from her countenance. Only that approach seemed to quench the fire of his inner demons.

She figured the police would put a tail on her. That’s what she would do if she were them. That made it all the more important to run today’s errands before the tail could be put in place.

Chin pulled onto Charles Darwin Drive, Puerto Ayora’s primary seaside road, followed it down to the pier, and turned onto Avenida Baltra, a small street leading inland. A few glances to the rear assured Chin that no investigators followed her.

A couple of miles down the road, she pulled into a branch of Banco Pichincha and used the bank’s ATM to withdraw a hundred dollars from her savings account back in the States. Chin scanned the printed receipt and winced as she noticed how much the last withdrawal had reduced her balance. She shrugged. It had to be done. Besides, she’d eventually be reimbursed.

She glanced at her watch. Eleven o’clock. Good, not even noon yet—plenty of time to prepare for the evening’s activities. But she couldn’t dawdle. This was one occasion for which tardiness wouldn’t do.

A twinge of guilt clouded Chin’s thoughts as she pulled out of the bank’s parking lot. A part of her knew she shouldn’t be doing this, but other, more compelling motivations, held sway.

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