Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Elizabeth Haynes
- Language: English
- Genre: Psychological Fiction
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Thursday 21 June 2001
As far as days to die were concerned, the longest day of the year was as
good a day as any.
Naomi Bennett lay with her eyes open at the bottom of a ditch while the
blood that had kept her alive for all of her twenty-four years pulsed away
into the grit and rubble beneath her.
As she drifted in and out of awareness, she contemplated the irony of it
all: how she was going to die now – having survived so much, and thinking
that freedom was so close – at the hands of the only man who had ever
really loved her and shown her kindness. He stood at the edge of the ditch
above her, his face in shadow as the sun shone through the bright green
leaves and cast dappled light over him, his hair halo-bright. Waiting.
The blood filled her lungs and she coughed, blowing scarlet bubbles that
foamed over her chin.
He stood motionless, one hand on the shovel, watching the blood flow
out of her and marvelling at its glorious colour, a liquid jewel, and at how
even at the moment of death she was still the most beautiful woman he’d
ever seen.
Once the flow slowed to a mere trickle he turned away, casting a glance
across the derelict no-man’s-land between the back of the industrial estate
and the beginnings of farmland. Nobody came here, not even dog-walkers;
the ground was rough and scarred with manufacturing rubbish accumulated
over decades, weeds growing through empty cable reels, brown fluid
leaking out of rusted oil drums, and at the edge, beneath a long row of lime
trees, a six-foot ditch that brought dirty water when it rained, draining a
mile away into the river.
Several minutes passed.
She was dead.
The wind had started to pick up and he looked up through the canopy of
leaves to the clouds chasing each other across the sky.
He scrambled carefully down the rough slope into the bottom of the
ditch, using the shovel for support, and then without hesitation drove it into
her skull, bouncing roughly off the first time, then with a dull crack
breaking the bone and splintering it into her flesh. Again and again, gasping
with the effort, smashing her face away, breaking teeth, bone and flesh into
one ghastly mixture.
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