Lie Still
“He wanted to suck down a Coke from the vending machine and sit in my station wagon in a dark garage parking lot where no one could hear us. Hopefully, he would leave me alive.
“We’ve got about twenty minutes,” he said. “It will take at least fifteen to get through that line at security. Should I start or you?”
My hand rested on the door handle while I reconsidered whether I should be in my car with a 200-pound, extremely fit man I didn’t know who could reach across and strangle me before making... his connection. Then I remembered Lucy. Yes, she warned me about him. But she said he was decent. I would cling to that, because I needed Bradley Hellenberger to be who she said he was. Who he said he was.
I felt like I no longer had time to waste, and plunged in. “You know that Pierce Martin was a rapist.”
Silence. “Yes, I had that general idea.”
“A few days ago, somebody left a present for me on my doorstep. A copy of a campus police report taken the night Pierce raped me.”MoreLess
“We’ve got about twenty minutes,” he said. “It will take at least fifteen to get through that line at security. Should I start or you?”
My hand rested on the door handle while I reconsidered whether I should be in my car with a 200-pound, extremely fit man I didn’t know who could reach across and strangle me before making... his connection. Then I remembered Lucy. Yes, she warned me about him. But she said he was decent. I would cling to that, because I needed Bradley Hellenberger to be who she said he was. Who he said he was.
I felt like I no longer had time to waste, and plunged in. “You know that Pierce Martin was a rapist.”
Silence. “Yes, I had that general idea.”
“A few days ago, somebody left a present for me on my doorstep. A copy of a campus police report taken the night Pierce raped me.”MoreLess
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