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It was six thirty before I was making my way back downtown. My phone rang en route and it was Pearce checking on me.
“Is pizza good for you for dinner?”
“Perfect.”
“My house or yours.”
“Mine. I need to get out of these clothes.”
“Okay, I’ll see you there in twenty. Does that work?”
“Absolutely.”
Ten minutes later I walked into a very dark house and for the first time it really gave me the creeps. My hand slid along the wall feeling for the switch, but the lights didn’t come on. I flipped both the inside and outside switches and neither responded. A sense of dread blanketed me and reminded me of my clash earlier today. Then the incident of my abduction crashed down on me and had me wondering if they were somehow connected. I sprinted out the door and punched the remote button on my car, thankful for the illumination of the headlights. I climbed inside the car and sat there trembling.
A few minutes passed when I heard the purring of Pearce’s Porsche as it pulled into my driveway.
I bolted out of my car and straight into his arms, nearly knocking him over.
Arms of steel hugged me. “Jesus, what in the world happened?”
I was shaking, but it wasn’t a full-on panic attack.
“The lights in the house. They won’t turn on. Inside or out. It freaked me out because they’ve never done that before. I’m scared, Pearce. Then I thought about the incident on the bridge this morning and it got me wondering if that guy had anything to do with my abduction.”
“Okay, okay. First, take a deep breath.”
I did and the relief was nearly immediate.
“Do you have a flashlight?”
I gave my head a quick shake.
“Let’s get one from Lisbeth. Come on.”
"I have two in my car." I still carried the spotlights with me. “Should we call the police?”
“For what? Lights that are out?”
A nervous giggle escaped from me. “Yeah, that’s just the kind of emergency calls they want to get, right?”
Then Pearce made a sweep through the house and none of the lights worked.
"Okay, where’s the breaker box?”
“Outside.” I led the way to the side of the structure. Every circuit had been flipped off, along with the master switch. That only meant it had been done on the outside. Pearce flipped everything back on and the entire house lit up, including the outside motion detection ones.
We went back to Lisbeth’s to ask if anyone had been by the carriage house today and she said no. This was very disconcerting. With everything that happened today, there was no way I could stay here, so I packed a bag and we headed to Pearce’s. Lisbeth was going to have a security system installed in the carriage house the next day and a lock placed on the breaker box. She was also going to install an electric security gate in the driveway. We called the police to inform them what happened. We thought it important for them to have a record of it.
“What I don’t understand is why do they want to hurt or scare me? I didn’t do anything to them! It doesn’t make sense,” I said.
“Listen, sweetheart, some people are just crazy.”
“But if the two incidents are connected, why didn’t they come for me sooner?”
“I don’t think they are connected. I just think the guy in the car is pissed off at you and wants to scare you.”
“Well, he’s doing a fine job of it.”
