SCARRED - Part 3 (The SCARRED Series - Book 3) (12 page)

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hloe:

I’m sorry I couldn’t write sooner. As it is, someone else is taking this down for me. I’m in the hospital and I hate so badly to have to be the one to tell you this, but Jesse put me here. He beat me and cut me with a knife. He left me in the bushes...he thought I was dead. A man walking his dog found me the next day. I was unconscious and they had me listed as a Jane Doe for almost a week. I’m on the mend now, but it’s required several surgeries and probably more to go. I am not telling you this so you will feel bad. I’m telling you so that you will run...far and fast honey. He is coming for you and from what he told me, what I got was minor compared to what he intends to do to you. I’m so sorry. The police are looking for him too, so hopefully that helps. Love to you!

Chantelle

Chloe stood staring at the phone in the grip of a silent panic. If anyone had been there to see her, they would have seen a pair of wild eyes with dilated pupils. Her heart was racing and her brain was on fire. The synapses were firing like she had just done a monster line of cocaine and sending conflicting messages to every part of her body. Her hands were trembling and her legs felt so weak they were about to give way underneath her. She headed for the chair in front of the desk when her stomach got in on the panic and began to lurch and roll. She ran for the bathroom, stumbling twice before she got there and she began to heave into the toilet. When she finished, she sat down where she was and she cried. She cried giant, gulping sobs for her friend.

Poor Chantelle. God, what did she do by getting her involved in all of this? Once Jesse found out she lived, would he go after her again? He’s here in Rhode Island now, she was sure of it. If the police can’t find him he must have left New York right after he left Chantelle for dead.

Chloe wrapped her arms around herself and sat there on the floor of the bathroom rocking back and forth. What should she do? Should she call Derek? Should she put him at risk like that? Her answer to both of those questions was no. She should do what Chantelle told her...she should run...further this time. But what then? Be a pole dancer the rest of her life? Never get close to anyone? Never get to know her parents or explore what falling in love with Derek felt like?

No, he wasn’t doing that to her again. Never again would she give up her life for this monster. Never again. She used the side of the toilet to push herself up off the floor. On noodle legs, she stumbled over to the sink and turned on the cold water. The first catch in her hands, she threw on her face. The second and third she drank like a woman who had been lost in the desert for days...she couldn’t get enough.

When her thirst was finally sated, she dried her face and went back into the bedroom. She fished her smokes out of her bag and went through the house out to the back patio. The sun was just going down and she could see the big, bald guy that Derek’s father hired to watch her standing a few feet from the side of the house. She lit her cigarette and brought it to her lips with a hand shaking so badly, she could hardly hold it. She inhaled a deep drag and held it in her lungs, letting the calming nicotine find its way into her veins. It gave her a head rush and she had to lower her head until it passed. She took another drag and looked out across the ocean. This was her home now and she loved everything about it. Jesse was not going to take that away from her.

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esse sat on the rocks with his binoculars and watched her. She was dressed in some kind of work-out gear and every one of her supple curves was visible. He wondered why she’d gotten all dressed for a work-out and instead of going, she was standing on the porch smoking like a freight train. She used to smoke when they were together too. She said she only did it when she needed to calm her nerves. He wondered what she was nervous about.

Jesse had gotten rid of his phone and the debit card and then he’d borrowed a phone from a guy on the pier and he’d called his mother. She told him about Chantelle being found and telling the police he’d tried to kill her. He worked himself up into a frenzy of tears and swore to her up and down that he was being set-up. It must be someone who was trying to sabotage his dad’s career...or even a criminal that Vince had put away, trying to get even. He wasn’t a murderer. He’d pleaded with her, “Mom, please tell me you know that.”

“I know it, Jesse. But they think you did it, honey. They’re tearing our houses apart looking for you.”

“I need to get out of town, Mom. Will you send me money? I can’t use the card. I need you to wire me some money. Please Mom,” he’d sobbed. “I’m so scared. I’m all alone and I don’t want to go back to prison. Please help me.”

She had agreed to wire the money. Jesse thanked her profusely and told her he loved her so much and he would call her as soon as he got somewhere safe. An hour later he was picking up his one thousand dollars from the little run down pharmacy on the far end of town in a neighborhood where no one noticed anyone...unless you had a hook-up of some kind for them. He bought a disposable cell phone and filled the Prius with gas. Then he drove back up the coast, parked the car and now here he sat, looking at Kelly.

He adjusted the lenses on the binoculars so he could get a closer look at her face. It looked like she’d been crying. She must have gotten word about that slut, Chantelle. He hoped that she knew it was her fault. He hoped that she was sick about it and he hoped that she was very, very afraid.

To be continued...

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SCARRED PART 4 TO BE RELEASED MAY 18TH

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