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I was never fingerprinted, so there’s no way anyone from back then could’ve found me, I always made very sure of that. So, how did they even know that we were connected? Stanley doesn’t know my new name so he couldn’t have told them.
I kept the name Deidre but even spelled it differently from the original and got myself a new last name that had nothing to do with me or anyone I knew. I only kept it so that I wouldn’t mess up and forget to answer to a new name because who had time to get used to that shit?
No one knows me; I never really kept any friends because of what I was into. There’s my bitch of a sister, but we haven’t spoken or seen each other in years. Not since I seduced her husband, and she lost her shit. That’s what she got for always trying to be so perfect.
We both lost our parents and other siblings at the same time, so why was she the only one who got comforted by everyone else around? Why was she the one everyone felt pity for? So what if she was in the car with them when it happened?
So what if it was because I’d insisted they come see me cheer? I didn’t tell Dad not to know how to drive, and they didn’t need to bring all their brats with them. Who asked them to? Is it my fault that they were all stupid?
“Are you listening?”
“What did you say?”
“I said we need to come up with a new defense because this isn’t looking good. Now we have this situation in Arkansas with Thorpe that, if it checks out, is only going to make things worse.”
“I need to talk to Cecile. Tell her I need to see her.” I’m not about to talk on the phone where these people can listen in. I don’t care how much she hates me right now because of her son; if she wants to keep my son, she’d do as she’s told.
“I don’t think that’s a good idea.”
“Tell her that if she wants to keep my son, she’ll show her face.” It’s not time to panic yet. No one ever got anywhere by doing that shit.
THUNDER
Igot the news about Dan’s passing the next day before we left the hospital, but I didn’t tell her right then and there. Let her enjoy motherhood for a little while longer, but there was still one last thing left to do before I could put this all behind us.
Kieran, you know what to do. When is the funeral?”
“No one knows for sure; they have to do the autopsy for the murder case, so it might take a while. Good, that gives us time. Go to that house and find anything to do with my wife, anything.”
“You’ve got it, boss.” I wasn’t expecting there to be much, but I didn’t want her embroiled in this mess. I was sure no one else would dare enter the place since there was police tape all around it, but that never stopped my people from doing their job before.
I got off the phone and went back to the room where her mother and my sister were busy packing up. She’d hounded me all through the night whenever she woke up about letting Joy be more involved and doing things with her so that she didn’t feel left out.
I’m ashamed to say it never entered my mind that there would be any sort of problem, but she has a point. For a very long time, it had been just the two of us, Joy and me, and she’d be going off to college in another year, which was a big change as well.
But see, that’s why I love my woman; that’s the kind of person she is, selfless. I tried not to let anything show on my face when I walked back into the madness, but she was so preoccupied I needn’t have bothered.
I, too, got caught up in the happiness and excitement of taking our kids home and was able to put everything else aside for the time being. Tomorrow will be soon enough to go back to destroying the only two people who were left to deal with.
When I started this, I had no intention of anyone dying, but I can’t say that I’m too broken up about it. Whatever reasons he had, whether it was his mother’s influence or his own innate weakness, makes no difference to me, the end result was the same.
He'd hurt her, humiliated her, and damn near broke her with the shit he had done and allowed to do. She’d told me all of it, and I still can’t wrap my head around the fact that someone had dared treat her so horribly.
Deidre is a con artist, there’s no two ways about that, but the rest of them, Dan and his mother, had fallen for her bullshit and dragged my woman into it with them. I won’t let them off, even if they all die.
There was a lot to do to get my family home, so there was no time to dwell on outliers. For one, we needed a new car seat that fit three instead of two, so we had to wait for release until all of that had been taken care of.
The idiot doctor who told us to prepare for two didn’t face any consequences for making me have to wait to leave this place, but I’ll deal with her later. Right now, I just wanted to get them home where I know they’ll be safe.
It looked like no one had left the night before because the same faces were there when we finally left the room with the babies. I got my first taste of what my life was going to look like as soon as we stepped outside.
I’m not sure how people have been raising kids since the beginning of time, but my guess is that all parents, the ones who give a damn anyway, must live in constant fear and anxiety.
I almost gave myself whiplash as much as I looked around for any danger between the door and the car. No one else seemed to be as hyper-alert as I was, not even the men and women I paid to do this shit.
The babies each had their own detail, which their mother did not know about just yet because I didn’t want to deal with her shit right now, but even that wasn’t enough to put my mind at ease.
As if that’s not enough, my mind keeps getting ahead of me, and I find myself worrying about things that are years ahead. I guess I’ll have to read up on this crap and see if I’m the only one or if this is the norm. I’ll be damned if I’m going to ask the Doc, though.
