Naked Came the Vampire (Hypernaturals 1)

The Lady in the Lake

A few days later, a fresh memory card appeared. The note in this package in Helen's hand. They really did teach good handwriting years ago. Helen's hand is different. More upright. Fewer curves. Very precise. It fit Helen.

I changed out the listening devices so that they have fresh batteries. I took the one out of the bathroom. It was useless. I am not quite sure what I thought would be happening in there, but I have never bugged a house before, and many very interesting things happen in my bathroom (Usually the shower, but sometimes one cannot wait. This is why they invented fluffy rugs.), so perhaps I was projecting. Also, in civilized palaces, the WC is separate from the bathing area. What idiot thought combining those two things is a good idea?

(I stopped reading and shook my head at that one. The mental image of what happens in Helen's bath involved her and Jessica. Probably the image she intended.)

While I was in the house and Arnold was encamped in Jessica's parking lot, I took an extra thirty minutes to look about. Not a deep inspection mind you, but a quick once over. Maybe I am getting overly confident but nothing seems to happen in that neighborhood during the day. I thought I might look for anything unusual. Something that is a standout. There is a desktop style computer that is password protected, and I could not get in. You, Adrian, may need to be in this house if we decide that we need to look at that. You are good at computers, are you not?

I was not comfortable doing more than a cursory look. It's a quiet area but who knows what could go awry? In any case, I found nothing. Like most things with this arse, useless. Lori may have the right idea with regard to this... Person. If he was not in the constabulary, he would be dead now.

I did find some pictures of him, having sex with some unknown woman. She is bound and gagged, and covered neck to toe in what is often called 'body art'. I took pictures of the pictures in case we see her again. She is quite distinctive. In the useless trivia department of today's missive: the inked images are crisp and do not appear to have blurred or faded over time I would venture to guess they are recent. The tattoos are quite brilliant colors that are a fairly recent tattoo technology I believe. I am not an expert, not having any or desiring any myself. I prefer a different sort of pokery.

I point all of this out only because if she decided recently to have all this work done, then I have to wonder what precipitated that. How did she wake up one day and decide to change her entire body? Was this negative or positive? Is she trying to compensate for her love of abuse by making herself into a work of art? All of this seems to be an insight into Arnold and what he likes as well. How he came to fixate upon my Jessica, I do not understand at all.

The snaps were taken in his bedroom. I found a hidden video camera there. Apparently, Arnold video records his sexual conquests. No surprise. It is a thing you males often do I believe.

Not signed with love. 

I have never been tempted to record me having sex. I would rather HAVE sex. Not that Helen would believe or understand that.

Helen included four picture printouts, clipped to the back of the note. Her camera takes pretty good pictures of pictures. Good in the technical sense. What they are pictures of is not my thing. In addition to seeing more of Arnold than I want to, they mostly featured the woman. I wondered if she is the the same woman from the bugs that caused Danny his problem.

The woman in the pictures is skinny. Painfully thin. I know I have a preference for a full figured woman and all, but that does not mean that I cannot tell the difference between thin and malnourished. Her breasts small and pendulous, Her ribs and hip bones distinct outlines under her taut and patterned skin. Her hair is ironed into kinks, asymmetrically cut, colored with pink streaks, and looked wet or greasy. What Arnold had demanded of Jessica in the cop car? His favorite thing it seems. Arnold is an ass man. Seems redundant.