Thriller: Emily by Stephen Kingston

Author:Stephen Kingston [Kingston, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Lovy Books
Published: 2017-01-26T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Present Day, Louisa Falls

“Who’s that woman, Beth? She looks familiar.” The young woman in the booth by the windows heard the man cooking behind the diner counter ask the waitress. Smiling to herself the young woman acted like she hadn’t heard them.

“I’m not sure but you’re right, now that I think about it she does look familiar. I can’t place her but I know I’ve seen her before.”

Looking down at her laptop and the files spread out on the table before her the young woman, actually a 38 year old woman with a degree in journalism went back to work. She brushed her dark chestnut hair behind her ear, away from her face, and looked again at the file on Doctor James Nelson. It seemed the hospital he’d operated, after eventually coming to be the head of the hospital, had closed a few months ago and the building was still being emptied. She’d heard gossip about that already from the couple behind her as they whispered to each other.

“I heard Doctor Nelson used to torture women down in the basement, Bobby. I’m so glad they built the new general hospital before our babies were born.” The woman had whispered loudly.

“Larry told me that he knew a man, used to work with him, whose wife just disappeared one night. Said the woman’s baby had been sold off and the woman was told the baby died. Seems the poor woman lost her mind, Debbie, and just ran off out into the woods to never be seen again.” Bobby had replied in an equally loud whisper.

“Wow, I wonder about some of these tales we’ve heard. There has to be some kind of truth to them or we wouldn’t still be hearing them, surely? I wonder what their names were.”

Debbie spoke again but this time so low the young woman had to lean back a little to hear the words.

“I’ve heard people saying the hospital is haunted now. I heard one man saying patients wouldn’t go near it but you know, it’s been closed for a couple of months now”.

The young woman noted down the words, the names, and took a bite of the apple pie and coffee she’d ordered for the end of her meal. She continued to write as they chatted behind her and was almost finished with her pie when they left. It seemed she wasn’t the only one that had had suspicions over the years. Taking the last bite she asked for her bill and paid before leaving.

Going back to her hotel the young woman, famous in Charlotte but perhaps not so much on this side of North Carolina, called her producer at the news station she worked for and reported in.

“I think we might have a story but I need to get into that hospital, can you arrange that for me?” She asked as she unlocked her room, pushing the door open.

She settled into the room, putting her bag down, and kicked her shoes off as she listened to the voice on the other end of the line.

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