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Raise The Price

Page 35

by Mark Stanley


  She let go of my hand and then slapped me, once around the face, as hard as she had ever hit me.

  "It's done, now go and shower and then comeback and make love to me."

  Even the resumption of marital relations didn’t help my sleeping. I lay thinking of everything that had happened over the last few weeks and trying to plan a route forward, when for some unconnected reason I remembered the mysterious disk that had arrived a few days earlier. Getting up and padding into my dressing room, I retrieved the disk from my briefcase before going downstairs, eschewing the two CPO’s, one in the upstairs hallway and one in the entrance hall. Making my way into the study, I switched on the lights and closed the door behind me before switching the computer on. I put the disk into the drive and waited for it to load. When the images appeared they took my breath away and I replayed the disk twenty times, stopping it at the crucial point but always the outcome was the same as I saw myself clearly pushing Danny under the train.

 

 

 


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