Jake's Wake
“A huge, gnarled oak tree spread its bare branches out over the whole expanse of lawn, between the house and the swimming pool. The branches thrashed in the wind that roved out of the desert to beat down on the house.
Evangeline stared dourly at the padlocked gate on their right, the spiked steel fence blocking the path to the parking lot, the malformed tree looming before them, the bars on the window to the holding cell attached to the garage before them.
Evangeline’s heart sank into the bubbli...ng bile in her gut. Of all the awful surprises of the night, this was the worst yet, somehow, because it was not a surprise at all.
She feigned stumbling into Esther, tried to grab at her arms, but they remained pinned at her sides.
Esther wouldn’t meet Evangeline’s eyes, but she caught a glimpse of what was about to come leaking out of them, and she finally knew.
She wanted to crow, You knew what he was, and you let him do it to you, because you thought you were the only one. Thought it was normal, thought it was love.MoreLess
Evangeline stared dourly at the padlocked gate on their right, the spiked steel fence blocking the path to the parking lot, the malformed tree looming before them, the bars on the window to the holding cell attached to the garage before them.
Evangeline’s heart sank into the bubbli...ng bile in her gut. Of all the awful surprises of the night, this was the worst yet, somehow, because it was not a surprise at all.
She feigned stumbling into Esther, tried to grab at her arms, but they remained pinned at her sides.
Esther wouldn’t meet Evangeline’s eyes, but she caught a glimpse of what was about to come leaking out of them, and she finally knew.
She wanted to crow, You knew what he was, and you let him do it to you, because you thought you were the only one. Thought it was normal, thought it was love.MoreLess
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