Abuse My Daughter? I'll Wreck His Wake

My car was the only one speeding on the highway at one hundred miles per hour. My left hand stayed on the steering wheel, and my right hand clicked through my phone as I searched for a flight.When I reached the fourth company, a webpage appeared for a private flight. It was a small plane that could take off in the middle of the night, and the earliest flight was in an hour. It cost four thousand dollars, and I needed to transfer the money right away. It took me three tries to complete the transfer.My watch vibrated again, and I heard Dottie singing, “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.”Dottie was breathless between every word she sang. She struggled to breathe, yet she tried to finish the song. I bit my lip until it bled, and I tasted blood in my mouth. She suddenly stopped singing. “I can’t sing anymore, Mommy. My lips feel hard, and I can’t open them.”Her lips were turning stiff. That meant her muscles were losing temperature. “Listen to me, Baby. Stand up and clap your hands. Cla

Leo drove like he was a man on a mission. He did not hit the brakes when he reached a bend, and he did not flinch when the truck opposite honked and flashed at him. He sped past everything with a sharp turn of the steering wheel.I grabbed my seat, and my nails dug into the upholstery as I stared at the GPS. Two miles. One point seven miles. “Hurry up, Leo.”Leo stayed silent as he increased the speed from seventy-five miles per hour to eighty-five miles per hour.It was six oh five in the morning when the metal gates of the funeral parlor appeared through the mist in front of us, locked. Before I said anything, Leo stepped on the gas, and his car crashed into the metal gates. The sound of metal cracking echoed through the streets. The railings were pulled out of the ground and dragged below the car as sparks flew everywhere.Leo pulled the emergency brake right outside Building B, and I dashed out of the car. The metal doors were closed, and four people stood outside. They were Ed

A crack appeared on her dainty face when Edie saw that I refused to back down. She leaned forward and spoke in a lowered voice. “You should know what’s good for you, Nina. Dottie was keeping vigil for her father at the wake. As her stepmother, I have the right to make that arrangement. No law says a vigil cannot be next to a mortuary refrigerator. All I have to say is that she ran inside herself, and the wind blew the door shut. Do you have any evidence that I locked the door?”Herman affirmed her words. “There are no surveillance cameras around the mortuary refrigerator, Madam Shore. Your allegations about the locked door are based only on the testimony of you and your daughter. As for your violent behavior this morning, we have four witnesses.”He shrugged. “If we go to court, there is no knowing who will be the party that ends up convicted.”Edie’s voice rose an octave. “Wilber left behind his house, savings, and insurance, which comes up to at least five million. If you go up ag

I slammed the investigation report of the brake fluid hose in front of Officer Furlong. She flipped through two pages before looking up at me. “Illegally detaining a minor is a serious charge, but intent to murder is a crime on another level.”“Yes, I know.”“This means we need to reposition the entire case, and our technical and forensics department will need to start over, Madam Shore.”“How long will this take?”“The car in question has been towed into the criminal lab for a second review of the investigation results.”Edie was a changed woman while being detained. She no longer threw her weight around. She cried, trembled, and spoke in a careful tone. “It was a moment of stupidity, and I was wrong to try to discipline Dottie when she was always disobedient.”Officer Furlong did not waste time with her. She pressed a button to play an audio recording. The voice messages from the Stepmother’s Alliance echoed through the interrogation room.“If I manage to scare that little wre