The Scripted Stalker - Chapter 28
A Psychological Thriller
I am reposting chapter 28 and adding the links at the end for the previous chapters of my new psychological thriller “The Scripted” Stalker.
Chapter 28
Amanda smiled up at Tad as they lay sprawled across her bed. Sex was amazing with him as always. She went to get out of bed, and he pulled her back with his strong arms. She could feel herself melting against him, again.
“Where are you going?” he murmured into her hair.
She was under his power, as much as she tried to resist. “I’m going to get dinner and feed the cats,” she said not wanting to get up. Amanda wished this moment would last forever, just the two of them. She wanted to hold on to the illusion that he didn’t have a wife, or a family and it was only them.
“I have to get going soon too,” Tad said with a yawn.
Amanda could feel her heart drop. The illusion was shattering again. He was returning to his wife and family. It was always the way it was with her and other men. It was that way with her ex-husband Steve too. He was back and forth between other women before he committed to Amanda. They eventually got married but he ended up going back to his ex-girlfriend, Natalia Novita! Amanda could feel the rage building up thinking of her. Now Steve was in jail. She hoped the bastard would stay there and rot.
Tad sat up in bed and stretched. He pulled on his pants and tugged a shirt over his broad shoulders.
“We could have dessert,” Amanda said seductively. She leaned towards him revealing her lush cleavage. There was no way he could resist this.
“I’ll have to take a rain check. I have a lot of work to do. The case,” he explained getting off the bed and walking across the room.
Amanda wanted to say to “and your wife”, but she didn’t. “I can’t believe your case is going for a retrial. They must have some good evidence.”
Tad kissed her on her forehead. “You know I can’t discuss the case.”
Amanda turned away from him and started to pout.
“This was fun,” he said.
Tad gave her another quick kiss and headed out the door. She was alone once again.
Amanda wanted to scream. She was falling for him, something she said she wouldn’t do. Now the joke was on her.
She was able to get into Tad’s business account with some help from a client of hers. Men were like putty in her hands, plus she had secrets on her clients too.
There was a new forensic report done on Natalia and new evidence was found that was pertinent to the case.
Amanda shivered as she remembered that night a few years ago. It wasn’t supposed to happen like that. She only wanted information and to scare Natalia. Amanda didn’t think that Barney would take everything she told him literally. The hypnosis backfired. It worked a little too well and she had to clean up his mess.
Now Barney was starting to have vivid nightmares, remembering what actually happened. It was only a matter of time before he opened his big mouth. Amanda was becoming concerned that detective Reed was trying to track her down to talk again. She had nothing to say to him without an attorney present.
Walking out to her apartment deck, she noticed it had turned cooler, but she needed a smoke. So much for being healthy. Under so much fucking stress, she was entitled to a cigarette.
She lit up and watched the flame and took a puff. Her plan almost worked so well, she told herself. There was evidence that Tad was aware of. Evidence they would soon find once they searched his entire property. Amanda had to find it before anyone else did. She had to get there and make sure that wife of his was out of the way.
Amanda looked out into the dark night and shivered, feeling a deep chill. In Tad’s file she saw there was also a new witness being introduced to the case. It stated that the witness would be able to prove that Steve was not at the crime scene the night Natalia was murdered. What evidence could that person possibly have to prove that, and more importantly who was it?
By: Jane Deegan
Edited by: Mike Deegan