FIFTY-EIGHT
Paula slammed the door shut behind her as Cindy's dreadful words replayed themselves in her ears.
"It's not true. It's not true. It's not true." Paula dropped to the floor and rolled into a ball in the corner of her living room, repeating the phrase to herself over and over again. She was drenched in sweat and her heart thumped against her chest like a metronome on high.
Phillip loved her. He'd kept her from going to jail. He'd taken care of her. He was always honest with her. Hadn't he told her she shouldn't trust other people because the world was full of liars? Paula wiped her hand across her face, a trail of snot spreading across her cheek. She would just never talk to that horrible Cindy Cross woman again. She should have listened to Phillip when he told her it wasn't a good idea to allow others into her world. Yes. She should focus solely on her wifely duties and on her husband. Feeling better now that she was refocused, Paula pulled herself up and went to sort some laundry.
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Killing Me Softly (#Wattys2016)
Mystery / ThrillerOn a bitterly cold January evening, Tracy Ellis went for a jog along Chicago's snowy lakefront and disappeared. Her body is discovered days later, her beautiful face bashed in with a rock. Police determine her brutal death to be a mugging gone wrong...
