Vanished Trails by L.T. Ryan EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: L.T. Ryan
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HEAVY. SO DAMN HEAVY. SHE HADN’T BEEN THIS HEAVY TWO WEEKS
ago, when he’d hoisted her around his waist and that tight, little skirt.
Although, she’d been alive then. This must’ve been what they meant
when they said deadweight.
Dropping her into the trunk, he winced when her head hit the corner of
the bumper. That made no sense. She was dead. What did it matter if her
head hit the bumper? It didn’t. She was dead.
She was dead, because of him.
Lifting his shaking hands to his face, he stared down at her in the trunk
of the car.
This wasn’t what he’d wanted. This had never been what he wanted.
The only dead person he’d ever seen was his grandpa in a casket. Never
thought he’d watch someone die. At least, not until he was old, maybe his
wife’s last breath on her deathbed. Something like that. But nothing like
this.
It hadn’t been long, no more than an hour, and her lips were blue. How
were her lips already blue? He didn’t understand. Was it the cool breeze? It
wasn’t cold by any means, no less than seventy degrees. Did that simply
happen upon death? Did the lips just turn blue?
He didn’t know. This wasn’t exactly his area of expertise. Neither was
disposing of a body, but he’d watched enough movies. He could figure it
out. He hoped, at least. God, he hoped.
Clutching his knees with blood-caked hands, panting heavily, he bent
double and gasped for air. Still, he stared at the girl in the trunk.
How could this be real? How could it have come to this? What would
his father have thought?
How could he ever forgive himself?
Should he have called the police? Was it too late for that?
It was. He’d already loaded her into the trunk of his car. It didn’t matter
that he hadn’t intended to hurt her. He had. He’d killed her.
How were people so fragile? How could humans have climbed to the
top of the food pyramid when death was one hard bump away? It didn’t
make sense. None of this made sense.
How long would it take before she would be nothing more than bones?
Or dust? Why were her lips blue? Was she cold? Did he need to cover her
with something?
Yes. He did. Even if she couldn’t feel it, her lips were blue. After this,
she at least deserved a blanket.
Stretching past her, he grabbed the one he kept back here for drive-ins.
While untangling it, wrapping it around her frame, the warmth of her skin
brushed his.
That one small touch brought him to his knees, heaving for breath
through gasping cries. Reaching out for her pale, lifeless face only
brightened by the bluish glow of the moon and stars, he crumbled beside
the trunk.
“I didn’t mean to,” he whispered. “I never meant to hurt you.” Sniffling,
he stroked some blond hair behind her ear. “I’m so sorry, Liz.”
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