![]() Supposedly she’s staying at the Motor Inn.” Alice suddenly stopped herself. I think Caroline has some kind of hero worship for her, so maybe Verna’s right. Verna thought that she might have gone looking for Jude Brannock. I don’t know, maybe she isn’t getting them. Caroline went over there after dinner, but Verna says that the girls had some kind of fight and Caroline left.” Did you talk to Verna? Maybe Sophie knows where she is.” The thought that his wife could be right flooded Emmet with worry, but he slipped back into his role of steadfast husband and father, and he placed a comforting hand on her shoulder. ![]() “I’m just so afraid that with all her talk about the end of the world and death and destruction, what if this time she’s gone off to … to make it happen?” Tears that she had held back for hours began to slide down her cheeks. “Maybe if you didn’t always see the worst in her, she wouldn’t feel the need to run away,” responded Alice angrily. “Because she’s done this before,” he argued. “Please don’t be angry.” Alice collapsed on a kitchen chair. She’s a selfish little shit who doesn’t give a good goddamn about anybody but herself.” “Well, she doesn’t listen to you, Alice,” he said harshly. “I told her that if she ever went off with him again without telling me, there would be severe consequences,” Alice said without conviction.Įmmet drained the water and smacked his cup down on the counter with a distinctive crack. Caroline’s probably with that kid Jack,” he said, taking a plastic cup from the dish drainer and filling it with tap water. “Are you listening to me, Emmet?” asked Alice. And that created a craving he had never quite felt before. She hated what he did – but she understood him. It was funny, he thought, Jude Brannock was in all respects the enemy, and yet with her he didn’t feel quite so alone. Clock out, then purge the smell of blood and fear with a hot shower and a six-pack. He couldn’t talk about it with the guys at work – they were as ready as he was to leave the slaughterhouse behind each day. God knows, he couldn’t tell his children. He couldn’t talk about it with his wife she was stressed and anxious enough as it was. At home he had to be strong, he had to lock up what he did all day into a secret compartment where it festered and ate him alive from the inside. Sometimes just walking through the front door was enough to trigger it. “Alice, please,” he cautioned, closing his eyes to the overwhelming sense of isolation that enveloped him. Now without further ado, here are chapters 24-26!Įmmet walked into the kitchen where Alice paced restlessly, her cell phone clutched in her hand like a life line. ![]() Here are the previous installments if you’ve missed any: #PRIVATE# Not only is it a well-written story that keeps readers on the edge of their seats, but it also has animal rights themes. Did you catch her squawking about it on the OHH podcast and TV show? Robin is generous enough to be sharing the entire novel with you installments. We’re sure that by now, all of you darling flock members are just as addicted to reading Robin Lamont’s The Chain as we are.
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