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foolish.
     
     
     
    “Well, I will look into everything; I think you should go about life as usual, but stay with groups of people.  Don’t let him take your new life from you.  There is nothing these type like more than power and control.  If he thinks he is controlling you through your fear, he will keep coming back.”  Reaching into his pocket he takes out a small white business card, and holds it out to me.  “Here is my card.  My personal phone numbers are on the back.  If you need anything don’t hesitate to call.  Day or night.”
     
     
     
    “Thank you, Officer O’Connor.”  I finally feel like someone is listening and maybe this can finally be put behind me.  We shake his hands and walk out the door.
     
     
     
    “You were very quiet in there.”
     
     
     
    “Yeah, I figured you would appreciate the strong silent type, over the grunting Neanderthal.” He smiles at me.
     
     
     
    “I do like me a strong man” I’m laughing now and it’s wonderful.  I feel like a weight has shifted, not gone just less. “Do you see one around here?”
     
     
     
    Grabbing his chest, over his heart, and stumbling backward a couple steps, Brody mocks being stabbed in the heart. “The lady, she wounds me.”
     
     
     
    They laugh and joke back and forth as they walk down the street.  They talk about what they want to watch tonight and debate between Mexican and Chinese for dinner.  Eventually, they both agree on Italian.  They walk contented down the increasingly busy street, oblivious to the man shadowing them.
     

CHAPTER 9
     
     
     
    Michael sits in the park watching the comings and goings of the people around him.  His objective for today is to see if he scared Charlie enough to come to the police station that is located across the street from where he is sitting now.  She is a no show, so far.  It’s early; he will wait all day if he needs to.  Maybe he needs to step up his game.  If she isn’t scared, his plan will be more difficult to put into motion.
     
     
     
    Sitting, with nothing to do, his thoughts wander to Charlie.  She has actually gotten more beautiful over the last 3 years.  She is a little thinner, which wouldn’t be appealing except for the fact that he knows he is the reason.  She is stressed out and scared and she’s not eating right.  A smile makes a brief appearance on his face but it never reaches his eyes. 
     
     
     
    Her remarkable eyes have changed.  They have a depth in them that wasn’t there before.  She has lived life.  She is all grown up now.  The rose colored glasses have been removed.  She has looked danger in the eyes and lived through it. Barely.
     
     
     
    He thinks about what he has planned for her.  All the time and planning it took to make his plan perfect.  The things he is going to do to her. The thought is making it uncomfortable to sit straight.  He adjusts the erection behind his zipper.  Just remembering the way she struggled, the terror in her screams has him almost coming in his pants. He tries to settle his raised heart rate and slow his breathing.  Soon, Charlie. Soon.
     
     
     
    Michael is finishing his second cup of coffee, when a familiar dark blue truck drives down the street looking for a place to park.   She’s here, he says to himself with a satisfied smirk.  I must have made an impression.  Brody.   That man will never get lost.  Even when Charlie was all mine , he was always putting his nose in our business. He tried to get her to stay away from me, and always filling her head with ideas, like she was a strong, independent woman, who could stand on her own two feet.  He told her once that I was so concerned with her cheating, because I was the unfaithful one.  She almost bought that one and left me. Fortunately, for me she was very naïve and insecure, she believed everything I told her.
     
     
     
    I watched as Brody helped Charlie out of the truck.  His hand lingered on the small of her