OPHELIA: Chapter 39

Blurb

Elizabeth Lockwick wants one thing… to ensure Ophelia remains dead.

For years she’s weaved a life seen through rose-coloured glasses in idyllic Vermont with her husband Sebastian Lockwick, an alluring man with a broken moral compass, whose intent lies in protecting his wife. However, apart from her unorthodox understanding of Sebastian’s dark and gritty hidden nature, she finds herself slipping away from her sanity in maintaining this picturesque life.

After receiving a gruesome gift from an unknown sender threatening to expose her, she finds herself haunted and possibly hunted by her buried past.

In order to make things right for herself and ensure that her secret is hidden, she reluctantly travels back to her sleepy small hometown in Wisconsin. A town where young girls seem to be mysteriously disappearing. There, she reunites with the dysfunctional Pierre-Louis’, a French-American family who sheltered her in their manor in her time of need.

With time slipping away, she struggles with her guilt and a dangerous affair and realizes that perhaps Ophelia wasn’t dead after all these years.

Elizabeth suddenly finds herself caught in a game of cat and mouse, unsure of which she really is this time and who she can trust.

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Chapter 39

 

Ophelia sighed softly, still seated upon the bench. She tried to avoid going back into that house on her own accord. The sound of her phone suddenly rang, startling her a bit. She pressed the phone closely to her ear to hear Stefan’s voice wrap around her soul like a warm hug on a cold day. And yet, there was something restless about it.

His voice was calm as he spoke, “Are you alright?”

“I am now.”

“Lily,” he breathed. He seemed like he wanted to say something but didn’t know how to say it in a calm manner. “I think you should come back home now.”

This was odd. Stefan wasn’t a person who told her what to do. Something had to be wrong.

“Stefan, what’s going on?”

“Are you far? Do you need me to pick you up?”

“No, no. I’m alright. Charlie’s here,” she tried to assure him as she noticed Charlie making his way down the staircase back inside the house. “I can get a ride back with him. Stef, what’s wrong? Why do you sound so uneasy?”

“Okay good, come back here soon.”

“Stefan, tell me what’s going on.”

He paused. “There’s a woman here. She drove herself to the manor, she’s hurt and she’s been asking for Elizabeth.”

“What?” Ophelia stood in shock. “I don’t-”

“She said she got the address from beneath the chest you gave her.”

Ophelia froze. Sally. She felt herself unable to speak. There was a sudden nauseous within the pit of her stomach. Her words were fleshly and thick with ached pain, “How badly is she hurt?”

“I just called the doctor.”

“I’m coming,” she said breathlessly and hung up the call.

She hurried back into the house when Vivian suddenly called to her at the top of the staircase. Charlie, who was almost at the front door, stopped and turned towards her. “Oh, I didn’t realize you were still here.”

Turning up to Vivian, Ophelia apologized, “I’m sorry, I just really need to leave right now.”

“Is everything alright?” Charlie asked her in concern.

“I need a ride with you back to the manor.”

“Of course.”

Vivian made her way down the staircase, confused. An older woman suddenly stepped out from the nearby room with a chuckle and dead eyes, much like Elaine’s. There was a somewhat striking similarity about this woman. She’d seen her before, but where? The woman seemed to be blind yet functioned much like Elaine. She took a deep pull from her cigar and exhaled her words of smoke, “Your friends seem to be in a rush, Vivie dear.” The way she spoke seemed resentful towards the girl.

“Vivian,” Ophelia apologized again, “We’ll speak soon.”

Ophelia couldn’t explain anything right now, she needed to be back home. Her mind was restless and too troubled to think clearly and her head was aching her so badly.

Vivian watched as Ophelia hurried into Charlie’s car and him following closely behind. What had gotten into her? “Trouble making friends, darling?” Her mother taunted. She ignored her mother and picked up the envelope Sebastian had given her. Usually her mother’s taunts wouldn’t affect her but today she was feeling a bit unease about it. Vivian pulled out the documents to find herself holding blank sheets of paper. Her jaw clenched. Sebastian hadn’t been here under the pretext of what he had initially portrayed himself to be here for. He’d been here because he knew Ophelia was here.

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