You Can Run by L.C. George

Author:L.C. George [George, L C]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-01-14T00:00:00+00:00

BY THE TIME I got home, I had gone over his version of events until my head was spinning. Questions and answers spiralled, twisting together, weaving themselves into and tightening the ball of anxiety that seemed to have lodged itself inside my head. No amount of processing it all would unravel the truth.

Why would he lie?

To convince me to speak to him. To make me feel guilty. To have some sort of hold over me. Weren’t these the kinds of games his type played?

Why would he not have reached out to me before?

Because he never wanted to hurt me, he had no reason to tell me. Now he had no choice.

Would he really have sacrificed himself to cover for me, even though it meant allowing his wife’s killer to remain free while he spent his life incarcerated?

He was being a dad; he would have been willing to sacrifice anything to keep me safe and protected.

I had lost track of time as we had spoken, Dennis allowing me to ask my questions, and I had been somewhat more compassionate with the delivery of them.

I agonised over the details. Parts of it did seem plausible. It was hard for me to be certain of how any of it must have been for him. I had no children of my own so couldn’t imagine the lengths I would go to protect them. But how far would I go to protect Dan? Or Annie, Dalaja, Phil or Tim? The people that I cared about most in the world. In his position, could I honestly say that I wouldn’t have done the same things to keep the people I loved safe? The truth was, I couldn’t say for certain.

Doubt had crept in, once again taking its stance against Dennis’s story and my own sanity. I had met – in secret – with a convicted murderer, at his request. He had told me things about my past that had left me in such a spin that I no longer knew which way was up, had left me feeling physically sick with the guilt of it, all while playing the doting father who had been backed into a corner at every attempt to move. Even now, his reasoning for telling me everything was seemingly selfless.

I couldn’t allow myself to be blind to his ability to masterfully manipulate. Even if he wasn’t lying now, he had spent the majority of his life spinning a web of lies to cover for me. Either way, he was a master of illusion.

I had listened to more than I had capacity to process. When I had quietly asked Dennis if he wished to be dropped anywhere, he seemed to sense the shift in my mood, declining my offer, thanking me for hearing him out and reminding me that I could contact him any time.

No matter which way I tried to turn things in my mind, I seemed to be met by a barrier of reasons to believe and disbelieve every part of what Dennis had told me.

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