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For a second, his plea crossed my mind. They cut through the red haze crowding my thoughts. Could I allow him to survive? Will he keep our secret?
“For nothing is hidden that will not become evident. Kill them all.”
“Yes, Mother,” I answer out loud.
Without a second thought, I bring the sledgehammer down on Curtis’ skull cutting off his cries for help. However, the pull of the red haze has still not let me go. Mother continues to whisper in my head.
“Finish the job.”
I drop the sledgehammer to the floor. Reaching in my bag, I pull out a saw. I have more work to do.
Summer
I come awake abruptly. It takes my eyes a moment to adjust to the low light and to remember where I am. I fell asleep on the couch in the living room.
After putting Gabe to sleep, I remember sitting on the couch. My eyes drifted to the clock on the wall numerous times while I watched TV.
I won’t say I was waiting up for Gabriel, more like I was just checking to make sure he made it in safely. I texted him before putting Gabe to sleep to see what time he would get back but he never replied.
I kick the covers off my legs and place my feet on the floor. I stand to head into the kitchen.
“Ahh,” I scream when my gaze lands on Gabriel standing near the entrance from the kitchen to the living room.
Placing my hand over my heart, I say, “Fuck, Gabriel. You scared the shit out of me.”
I head in his direction, stopping in front of him.
“I’m going to have to get you bells for your shoes.” I chuckle, but he doesn’t respond.
It’s then that I start to pay attention to him. He’s staring at me with cold eyes. His body seems so tight he would shatter if I thumped him. His hands are down at his side in tight fists. His breathing is labored, his nostrils flaring with each inhale he takes.
“Are you alright?”
“You will be delivered from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words,” he says in a slightly higher pitch voice almost as if he’s someone else.
Before I could ask him again if he’s okay, he speaks letting me know exactly where his head is.
“Yes, mother.”
Cold dread runs through my body. Gabriel told me that when he goes to that dark place to kill, he has to let his mother in his head. She’s so deep in it, he’s speaking in her voice.
“Gabriel—” my words are cut off when his hand wraps around my throat so tightly I feel as if he could crush it.
I fight for my next breath, but his grip is like a snake, every time I try to take a deep breath he squeezes tighter.
“Gabriel…. please…” I choke out.
Yet his eyes remain cold and unfeeling. He’s so far in that dark place he isn’t even blinking.
Tears spring to my eyes. This is the part about that night I tried to forget. For as special as it was, it was also terrifying. Gabriel is a killer no matter how kind he was to me. This is who he is.
I grab his hand when the spots start to appear in my sight. I scratch at his wrist trying to dig my nails into his flesh hoping to snap him out of it. However, it seems as if I’m barely touching him even though blood is pooling on his skin. He doesn’t even flinch at the pain.
It’s then I remember that pain isn’t going to get that bitch out of his head. He’s used to pain. I have to use the only weapon that I have.
“August… Gabriel… Jones.” It takes everything I have to get that name out. But the moment it slips out of my mouth, his hand loosen slightly around my throat.
His brows pinch and his jaw tenses. However, that cold look is still in his eyes. I continue giving him all the details he missed.
