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The Stress Fracture, Chapter 9
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“Give it a minute. Let it come back to you.” Tina continued to speak in a low voice, a reassuring tone, motherly almost.
“It was like one of those things, a karate sword, or something.” Her face went blank and she stifled a gasp. “But it wasn’t the goon who went for me that night.”
“It was Mulligan.”
“No.” She turned her troubled eyes to Tina. “It was George Huang.”
Tina didn’t show one bit of surprise or concern. Instead she brushed damp hair from Bette’s eyes and remained silent.
Bette watched her, waited for some remark or revelation about the dream, but when Tina only watched her back, she pulled herself up and leaned against the headboard of the bed and focused once more on remembering her nightmare. When she spoke next, her voice was even and controlled.
“But then, as I saw him swinging that stick toward me, my mom rushed him. Right then, the stick transformed into this long blade and…” She shivered and wiped her eyes. “She got between him and me. He was going right for her throat.”
“That’s when you woke up?” Tina asked gently.
Bette nodded.
“Do you understand how your mind is conflating your attack in L.A. with the revelation of your mother’s abuse by Mulligan?”
“But I told you, it wasn’t Mucker in the dream. It was George.”
“And we were speaking about George last night. He’d been in your thoughts before we came to bed.”
“Yes.” Bette frowned, rubbed her brow.
“That’s not unusual. Associations like that can create the strangest hodgepodge in a dream.” Tina took her hand and held it. “Dreams aren’t magical, Bette. They aren’t portents and signs as superstitious people believe. They’re nothing more than electrical activity discharging in your brain. It’s your mind that gives that stimulus significance and meaning.”
“Or maybe intuition.”
Tina tilted her head. “Intuition is nothing more than our brains processing stimuli at such a rapid speed that we’re unaware of our perceptions of it. Again, the brain processes, but the mind must make meaning. There’ve been no peer reviewed studies of dreams being a form of intuition.”
Bette chuckled at the expression on Tina’s face, at her deadpan delivery of her scientific explanation. “You have a strange way of reassuring someone that there aren’t any monsters under the bed.”
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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