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"Get out," he said sharply "Leave and don’t return until tomorrow"
As if in a trance, the woman started down the steps, barefooted and only dressed in a nightgown, her gait jerky and stilted She walked straight to a vehicle parked a short distance away, got in and then si down the drive
Panic swa Thomas down
"If you planted a coive you"
In a sickeningly sweet and soothing tone he said, "You have no need to worry about the woman No harm will come to her She’ll return to her home tomorrow and resume her pathetic existence Noe need to hurry We are also leaving this house and this town"
"I didn’t pack a bag," Eliza etic "I wasn’t sure what you wanted, what your plans were or if you even still wantedbrightly "You don’t need anything,you need I only have one task for you before we depart"
Eliza sent him an innocent, puzzled look "You know I’ll do whatever you want"
Tho that you are leaving with me and that you only want a quiet life with e and scorn you"
"But why bother?" she asked "No one would care Everyone here hates one In fact, they’ll be happy"
Thomas made a sound of impatience "If we both disappear, it will raise suspicion and ill never have the life I want for us It will be suspected that I killed you in revenge so you have to convince the public that you willingly chose to go aith me"
A chill slithered down Eliza’s spine She had been wrong about Thomas’s obsession with her and her certainty that he would never harm her, only those he saw as a threat for her love He was lying about the reasons for wanting her to write the letter He had no intention of taking her anywhere The letter would only serve to exonerate hi him free to also disappear and everyone would assuly with him No one would even look for her body or blink an eye over her sudden disappearance
Except Wade and Dane
They’d never buy anything she wrote about loving Tho aith him But would they find the letter--or her--too late to save her? Did Thomas plan to kill her here or would he take her so as possible before finally killing her?