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The Stress Fracture, Chapter 9
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Boston Harbor Hotel
Boston, MA
10:48am, Sunday, February 24th
The curtains were drawn against the morning sunlight coming across the bay into the east facing windows, and it bathed the bedroom in a dusky light. When Bette suddenly sat up in bed while gripping her throat, the unfamiliar room seemed to add to her confusion and panic as she screamed out still caught in her nightmare.
“Get down! Get down!”
Tina rushed in from the living room and flipped on the bedside light.
“It’s okay. Bette, wake up. You’re dreaming.” She grabbed her by the wrists and spoke in a calm voice.
Bette’s eyes widened as she gaped at Tina, and she blinked repeatedly as if she were trying to get her bearings. Her brown curls were plastered to her forehead with sweat, and her face was drained of color while her chest heaved with desperate gasps and her hands shook.
“Tina?”
“I’m here. You’re okay. It was just a dream.”
Bette relaxed back onto her pillow, pulled her hands away, and shielded her eyes. She began to cry softly even as the nightmare dissipated.
“No,” she whispered after a moment, “not a dream. A nightmare.”
“About Mulligan? Last night?”
Bette shook her head and lowered her hands. Her eyes were still dilated, but her breathing was returning to normal.
“Sort of, I think,” she said in a weak voice. “But also the carpet warehouse.”
“Do you want to tell me about it while it’s still fresh? Sometimes it helps to talk it out.”
Bette put a hand over her heart, but took a long pause to gather her thoughts.
“I was with Alice in the warehouse. The same dark room, the same stinking old carpet piled as high as the ceiling. I flashed my light and saw the girls, but…” She swallowed, blinked again, then her mouth contorted as she began to cry again. “…but my mom was there among them, huddled with them and crying.”
Tina sighed heavily and nodded her head. “Go on.”
“Then…I can’t remember exactly, but the guy was there just like it happened, coming for me, but this time…” She rubbed her head and wrinkled her brow “…but this time it wasn’t a carpet knife. It was a long sword, but not a sword, like a stick, like a…like a…” She grunted with frustration.
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Happy V-Day! See, I left you a present. 79 pages worth!!!
Okay, I’m late. I know. I’ll be late to my own funeral and then I’ll give the eulogy and run over by an hour. :)
BTW, Frank Serpico was a real cop who refused to look the other way when other cops did bad things. Maybe you’ve seen the Pacino movie?
I’ll be back in a few weeks with the final chapter.
Thanks for your posting.
Happy V-Day!
Thank you for the amazing present!
79 pages, wonderful written and it is like you can’t stop with reading till the end and then be feeling sad because you have to wait for a few weeks before you unfold the plot and truth.
I will wait patiently for the last chapter.
Happy V-Day!
Thanks for 79 wonderful pages :)
Look forward to your next final post and will really try to be patient ! As I’ve said before though, you are worth waiting for!
Happy Valentines!
What a long pages you had posted and I managed to finish all at once. I am so anxious to wait for the final chapter you will post in weeks. Please don’t let my guessing be right that Tina is the mastermind behind all the murders.Now I am worried for the worse to come.
Such a good story. Thanks so much, I enjoyed it immensely
I know the worse may be yet to come, but so will the best ! Right?!
BTW – how do you explain to your wife, how on Valentines Day…You gave a multitude of persons 79 pages of JOY? lolololoud
BenMac:
You made it again, this story is getting more and more exhilarating; you have the ability of hooking us to your story-books very easy. I guess we are about to expect a battle between moral values and philosophical principles as well as love and legality. I can’t wait to read how you will unravel the story. Thank you, your narrative really completed my nice day. By the way, happy V-day too.
Thanks, BenMac…Best Valentine’s Day treat! Bittersweet though, knowing we’re coming to the end. I couldn’t help but think of Annabel when Bette woke up at 3:15. I adore your writing as it is pure pleasure to read. I may have to reread the story in preparation for the end just to pick up the clues I’ve missed. Congratulations on your book! Can’t wait to read it!
What can I say, this was AWESOME. The death of Munch was hard to take, but what bravery and at least Bette got those other two pricks. It was nice seeing Tina in full flight when taking care of and protecting Bette. Happy to see that Fin came to Bette and praised her. Enjoyed Tina giving her sexual healing to her woman. And it seems I was correct from the start. So the handkerchief monogram belongs to Tina and Ken’s, birth mother. I am a little confused, about your Author’s Note, why would anyone be pissed. This chapter was great and you gave it to us on Love’s Day. Thank you. I await the conclusion.
Finished the chapter a week ago but couldn’t get logged in until now, had to get on the computer to do it, the tablet kept getting symbols mixed up with the letters. The chapter .was fabulous.and.Tina was awesome. She really gets things done when necessary, Loved the two of them together, as always, she always is when being protective of Bette. Happy that you wrote that scene for them. Loving the story, hate to see it end.
Although I’m worried about the final implication, this was quite a thriller! This one had me nervous from beginning to end. I’ll be looking forward to the (unfortunately) last chapter. Such a different story from your others, and just as good.
please please please continue i love your writing and how you write bette and tina i love the thriller and the romance and i love how protective tina is over bette and how vulnerable bette is with tina ive been reading this the last few days hardly any sleep i love their first kiss and how tina said for now bette could say maybe to a date but any other time i love that they are keeping stuff from bette but are so protective about it especially tina its just so much intrigue and they are just too cute i really really cant wait for more and i love that they are soulmates but when tina gave bette the scarf saying it matched and it was like they were always meant to be together its so true and i cant wait for bette to find out what they are keeping from her