You'll Be Sorry by Emmy Ellis

Author:Emmy Ellis [Ellis, Emmy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-20T22:00:00+00:00

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Mark ordered pizza, the delivery due in twenty minutes. Could she eat that?

Dan didn’t like junk food.

Red wine poured, she sat beside Mark on one of the sofas. The easy silence between them highlighted the atmosphere at home—no, not home, at Dan’s house. Silence there held a sharp edge, one that cut and slashed until she almost threw up with the worry of what she’d done wrong. Here, it calmed her, spoke of thoughts being contemplated and the knowledge that words weren’t necessary.

She glanced at the clock. Dan would be home, pacing, fists and teeth clenched, wondering where she was. Thinking up ways to punish her when she returned. Annoyed his dinner wasn’t cooked. Livid her clothes were missing. She had no doubt he would have checked her wardrobe by now. She imagined his face, his emotions, and the volume of his anger. A coil of anxiety unwound—how long will it take for that to stop?—at the idea of him finding the car, knowing she’d been in Gradley. She hoped he’d suspect she’d gone elsewhere, as far away from him as possible. Surely he wouldn’t believe she was still local?

“What are you thinking?” Mark asked.

“About him. What he’s doing now.” She sipped her wine.

“Ah. And what d’you reckon he’s doing?”

“He’ll have realised I’m not coming back by now. He’ll be angry. Possibly go into the office to put a call out on the car.” She sighed. “He’ll check the bus station, train station here, and anything else he thinks will give him information. The credit card company. You know, the usual.”

Mark stroked his chin. “Christ. Tough call having a nasty copper as a husband. Access to the databases.”

“Yes.”

“You’ll stay here, stay inside for a good while, won’t you? Until it dies down?”

She leant her head on the sofa back. “That’ll be forever then. It won’t die down. Not while he’s alive.” She frowned. “And I’m not saying that because he loves me so much he’ll do whatever it takes to find me. No, he’ll keep searching because I bested him. Didn’t do as I was told. Dan thinks he owns me.”

“I noticed. I hadn’t worked at the station long before certain traits showed. He’s…how can I put it? He’s a very thorough individual. Damn good at his job, can’t fault him there, but…shit, there’s just something about him that doesn’t sit right with me. He has this freaky look every so often.”

Kerry shuddered. “I know it.”

“I could get him in the shit for last night. Locking you up down in that basement.”

She shook her head. “He’ll clean it. Take the cuffs off the chair just in case I report him, though he’ll think I won’t. And he’s right.”

The door buzzer sounded, and Kerry jumped.

Mark touched her knee and stood. “Don’t panic. That’ll be dinner.”

He chained the door and opened it a crack, peeking out into the corridor. He unlatched the chain and swung the door wide. A redheaded young woman stood holding two pizza boxes. Kerry’s stomach churned.

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