Chapter 23



Clover’s POV

I arrived at Lily’s old house early on Saturday morning. I really didn’t want to do this but Lewis was getting suspicious and I needed to show that I had nothing to hide. There were a lot of people gathered outside already.

I stood at the back of the crowd and just looked at the house that she used to live in. It was okay, nothing special, my house was bigger and I knew she was better off with me. I would never let her go walking alone at night; I would protect her from the evil out there.

“Colin, thanks for coming.” My head snapped up to see Lewis standing in front of me.

“No problem. I’m going to get started.” I said, turning around to get away from him. I’d agreed to help search for Lily but I didn’t want to be around him, he was too suspicious of everyone and everything.

“Great, your groups ready,” He said quickly.

I frowned as my heart dropped a little, I thought I’d be on my own and could just slip away and spend the day with the girls. “Group?”

“Yeah the volunteers work in small groups, you’re with Dan and Rick,” he said, reading their names from a piece of paper. “And me.” Him? I’m going to be with him all day? I started panicking for a second before I composed myself, I can’t let him get to me. I smiled and nodded. He keeps getting in the f*cking way!

We made our way to a field, miles away from my house where Lily was safe and started searching. I noticed Lewis kept looking at me so I kept my head down pretending to search; I moved bushes and branches out of the way and turned over loose moss and grass, making sure I looked like I was doing the job thoroughly.

Lewis finally came over to me after a while. The hate I felt for him was growing, he needed to stay away and let Lily live her life happily and safely with me and the girls. “So the police still have nothing solid on Smith,” he said, trying to be casual. You’ve got to try harder than that to get me to slip up!

I smiled, “I’m sure they will if it’s him.” I was praying they found something that was good enough to charge him. I didn’t want them to come back to me but honestly I’ve thought it all through and the police are so stupid I doubt they’d suspect me even if they have to let David go as a suspect. I’ve made sure they have nothing on me, I was proud of that.

Lewis walked off ahead of me, his fists clenched. Was he going to drop this? If not I’d have to do something about him. I wasn’t sure how though. How could I do it without anyone suspecting me? I sighed in frustration, feeling the anger building. I forced myself to stop thinking about him and how he’s trying to ruin my family and concentrated on searching convincingly.

We all continued searching for hours, only stopping to eat and drink occasionally. Lewis didn’t stop at all though. He must really believe he loves her. Maybe he does have feeling for her but they’re not real, he can’t really care about her if he let get go out on her own. I will not feel bad for rescuing her and protecting her, she is better off with me.

Just after nine at night we got back to Lily’s old house, I was more than pissed off; I’ve wasted a whole day that I could have spent with the girls. Lewis thanked us for helping and I walked off straight away, quickly getting into my car. I drove home still feeling a little stressed, I needed to go see the girls and relax.

As soon as I got home I went straight to their room. Rose and Poppy were sitting on the sofa; I wasn’t sure where Lily was. They jumped up and smiled at me. “Hello flowers,” I said cheerfully, relaxing slightly as I saw them. “I’m sorry I missed dinner.”

Rose shook her head, “It’s fine. Would you like something to eat now? We can make you something.” I took her hand in mine and smiled at how thoughtful she is, she’s the perfect woman.

“That would be great, thank you.” She nodded smiling and went to the kitchen, Poppy followed and they started getting food out of the fridge. “Where’s Lily?”

Poppy spun around, “I’ll just go get her.” She walked quickly to their bedroom. Lily must be looking after her. She’s got a long way to go before I forgive what she tried to do, even if she was only trying to protect Rose, Poppy and Lily. She needed to prove to me that she’s changed and can be a respectable woman before I could accept her as Heather, she has one last chance and that’s only because Rose practically begged for it.

I smiled as Lily walked into the room, she is incredibly beautiful, I can see why Lewis likes her. She smiled nervously and seemed to tense up as I kissed her hand. Maybe the shyness is just part of her personality; it wasn’t a bad quality and did make her seem so much more innocent, or maybe Lewis didn’t treat her properly? It was probably that and her parents failing her and not raising her properly. Children need to be f*cking trained. That must be it; her family must have neglected her.

I patted the sofa beside me, “Come sit Lily.” I needed to help her more than the others, she needed more guidance and to be taught how to behave. She slowly made her way to the sofa and sat down, looking at the floor and holding her hands on her lap. Looking into her eyes at that minute I have never hated anyone more than her family for what they’ve done to her. All this ‘we’ll never give up on her’ and ‘we love her’ stuff was a load of shit. Her family don’t care, Lewis doesn’t care, within a couple months he’ll be sleeping with some slut anyway.

“How are you feeling?” I asked her, putting my hand on top of hers comfortingly.

Her whole body hunched up nervously. “Fine thanks,” she said quietly, biting her lip. I didn’t like that, it looked slutty.

“Don’t bite your lip!” She jumped and stopped immediately. I needed to speak to Rose and get her to put some time into train Lily more; I wanted her to act like Rose and Poppy.

“Clover do you think you could get us another please,” she said, holding up a wooden spoon that had split.

I jumped up and took it off her. “I’ll go right now,” I said, kissing her on the cheek. I kept a stock of things in a room so I always had replacements. I locked the door behind me and walked into the room, grabbing a new wooden spoon out of the draw. Something made a noise making me jump around. It couldn’t be the girls, their room was sound proof. There was a small bag of blue wool on the floor, it must have been that falling, I picked it up and put it back on the table.

I looked around the hallway and up the stairs but I couldn’t see or hear anything. I shook my head, Lewis was making me paranoid and I hated losing control.

The girls were talking happily and smiling as I closed the door and made my way back down the stairs. I ate dinner and spent an hour talking to them and watching some television before I felt tired and went up. I locked their door and moved the bookshelf over a couple inches so you couldn’t see the door handle, with the bookshelf where it is their door just looks like the wall. I smiled to myself and went to have a shower to get rid of any germs before going to bed.

I spend Sunday working on some things for work; we had a big dead line so I had to put in a few more hours. Throughout the day I kept getting more anxious and was worrying about David not getting charged. I needed to do something to push the police towards him further, I needed my family safe.

When it was time for dinner I went downstairs and sat at the table but I couldn’t relax at all. My foot was tapping on the floor independently. Don’t ever lose control. I could feel that I was and I needed to get it back.

“Here we go,” Rose said cheerfully as she put a plate of pie, mashed potato and vegetables down in front of me.

I smiled gratefully, “Thank you.” The girls were talking as we ate dinner but I couldn’t concentrate on anything they said. I know what I needed to do. As soon as everyone had finished I stood up. “Lily can I speak to you?” I said, gesturing for her to follow me to the corner of the room. She nodded slowly and it looked like she was shaking again, she is really skinny maybe she gets cold easily. I’ll have to remember to turn the heating up even more and make sure she eats properly, her family probably didn’t even care if she was eating or not!

She stood against the wall stiffly and looked at me. “I’m sorry but I’m going to have to go out tonight so we can’t spend any time together.” I felt a little sick, I absolutely hated breaking the routine I had but I know this needed to be done just this once. Lily nodded her head and I smiled at her. “I knew you’d understand and don’t worry, I’ll make it up to you next week.”

I quickly walked back up the stairs and out to the shed to get the things I would need for tonight. When the police discovered the canal I looked around a bit and found a lake out in the woods that would work.

I pulled up at the side of the road and just waited, they would come to me. After barely a minute one girl came up and leant in my car window. “Hi,” she purred making me feel sick. I wanted to scream at her. I wanted to stab her right now and watch as she slowly bled to death, she was what’s wrong with the world. Kill the dirty slut.

I gestured towards the passenger side and she winked at me before walking around the front of the car to get in. I gripped the steering wheel to control the disgust I felt as she got in and smiled at me, biting her lip. We drove off and I parked up a dark lane in the woods, she didn’t even look worried, bet she comes here a lot with other men, probably married men.

“So how do you want me?” she asked, licking her bottom lip.

I clenched my jaw and forced myself to focus, I needed to get her out of the car first. “Bonnet,” I said, opening my door.

She giggled and got out, “I like your style!” I shuddered in disgust and nodded with her head for her to come to me while I put my hand in my coat pocket, gripping the knife. She walked towards me swaying her hips and I fought with everything in me not to jump forward right then and plunge the knife into her dirty heart.

I pushed her down so her chest was pressed on the bonnet of the car. She made some sort of moaning sound that made me feel sick. I lifted her top up and ran the blade of the knife down her back gently so I didn’t break the skin. She stiffened, “W-what are you doing?”

I smiled and pushed the knife into her skin harder, “I’m taking control,” I said as I pushed harder, breaking the skin and watching the bright red blood leak out of the wound. She was shaking and letting out little whimpering noises but she didn’t even try running.

“Please, what do you want? I’ll do anything.” I sighed, they asked this a lot and I was getting bored of it.

“I want to kill you,” I said simply. She started sobbing and I clenched my jaw, crying was another thing I hated.

“No, no, please!” she begged. I pushed the knife into her back as far as I could; she screamed leaving a ringing in my ears. I pulled the knife out of her back and threw her on the floor; she hit the ground with a light thud, her face in the grass. The blood trickled down her back staining the grass. She pushed herself up and started to try crawling away. I laughed as she slumped to the floor, trying to hold the wound on her back but she couldn’t reach properly. It was pretty deep and bleeding heavily, I was actually impressed she was still trying to get away.

I moved in front of her and sat down on a log, watching her nails dig into the damp ground as she tried to escape. “Please let me go, please. I’m begging you, please.” I stood up and narrowed my eyes at her, kicking her in the face to shut her up. I f*cking hate begging and whining. She gagged and spat out blood and what looked like some teeth. I turned my head so I wouldn’t see her blood and saliva, all those germs, it made me feel sick.

She was having difficulty breathing and couldn’t hold herself up anymore. I just sat watching as the blood poured out of her body, every drop made her weaker and more lifeless. I felt calm. Her head finally fell to the ground and she made one last ragged breath before she died.

I closed my eyes and smiled.

I took back control Mummy.

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Hope you liked it. He killed again! This one wasn't as violent but I think the fact that he just stabbed her once and waited for her to bleed to death was worse than stabbing a lot and killing straight away.

So his Mum hey! Some of you had some Mother thoeries already but what do you all think now?

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