Their Last Secret by Rick Mofina
Author:Rick Mofina
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MIRA Books
Published: 2020-05-25T13:56:20+00:00
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After the visit ended, Nancy and Telforde drove for miles without speaking as he guided his Dodge RAM pickup through Winnipeg’s western edge.
At first Telforde punctuated their stops at red lights with one-sided conversations.
“I don’t know why she’s lying, Nancy. I swear I never touched her.”
Nancy stared straight ahead, meeting his denials with silence until he turned on the radio, keeping it low. Eventually they got out of the city and onto the highway bracing for the long drive back to Eternity.
They’d gone several miles when Nancy began talking. “I’ve been lying to myself for a long time,” she said.
“Lying about what?”
Tears rolled down her face. “That I needed to live with you because I couldn’t pay down my gambling debts and couldn’t afford to live on my own with a daughter on what I made at the Market Mart. That was one lie.”
“Your debts are huge and I was there to help you, get you into gambler therapy, so what’re you driving at?”
“I knew.”
“Knew what?”
“Nikki wasn’t lying. I knew and I said nothing and did nothing. Oh God.”
“Now just hold on, I’m telling you she’s a lying little bitch!”
The air cracked because Telforde never saw or expected the stinging whip-snap on his face as Nancy slapped him. He cursed, pulled back. The wheel twisted and the truck swayed.
“What the hell?”
“Nikki’s right. It’s my fault she turned out the way she did—I can’t live with it. I gave my daughter to you, you ruined her, now four people are dead and she’s so damaged that—oh God!”
Nancy unleashed a torrent of punches and scratches until Telforde, one hand slipping on the wheel managed to seize her wrist.
“Get hold of yourself, Nancy! I swear I never touched her!”
“I want out now!”
Telforde still gripped her wrist, eyes wide on her, the road, then her. “Calm down!”
“I know what you did!” she screamed, pulling away, closing her right hand into a fist, driving it into Telforde’s groin, piston-like, again and again. The pain was blinding, Telforde yowled, his hand tensed on the wheel, jerking it left. Suddenly the pickup was vibrating, the road had disappeared and they crossed the grassy median to the moan of an air horn before they slammed head-on into an oncoming big rig.
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