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“Judith! I’m telling you the truth.”
“No, Walter. I believe my daughter, not you.” She lunged at him. “You monster! I will fucking kill you.” She struck him across the face.
He grabbed her arms. “Judith, please stop. This is insane. I didn’t do anything to her.”
A breathless Judith pushed him away and pulled out her phone.
“Who are you calling?” he cried out.
“Who do you think, you piece of shit? The police.”
“Judith, don’t. I did nothing. They… they must have forced Maggie to say all that.”
“Who? Why would anyone do that?”
“Because I’m—”
“You’re what?”
“I… I can’t tell you.”
In disgust Judith turned back to the phone. “Hello, police? I need you to come out to my home. There is a child molester in the house and it’s my husband.”
“Judith!”
“Don’t touch me. Hurry, please hurry,” she screamed into the phone. She gave them the address.
Nash turned and ran to his closet, grabbed his bag, and raced down the stairs. On the way he called Shock. He answered by the time Nash was out the front door and running down the street, his pulse increasing with every stride.
Before he could say anything Shock said, “I saw Maggie, online.”
“It’s all a lie.”
“This is their way of takin’ you out without pullin’ the trigger and causin’ themselves more trouble. Where are you?”
Nash told him. “Judith has called the police. They’ll be on their way.”
“Just get out of your neighborhood. Can you do that without the guard seein’ you?”
Nash looked up ahead. There was a way around the gate. “Yes.”
“Throw your phone away right after you click off this call. They can track you.”
“But I can turn it off.”
“Don’t matter. They can track you even if the phone’s off. I’ll meet you in fifteen minutes.” He gave him a pickup location.
Nash clicked off, tossed the phone into a storm drain, and ran for his life.
CHAPTER
50
ATERRIFIED NASH HID BEHIND Atree along a lonely road that was nearly a mile from his neighborhood. Two cars had passed, but neither housed Shock. He had heard sirens in the distance as he was running, and knew it would be the police coming in response to Judith’s call.
My daughter called me a monster? How did they force her to do that? Now everyone believes I’m… my own wife…
He tensed as a van drove slowly down the road and then stopped across from where he was hiding.
