Fates Hands novel Chapter 70

Chapter 5–Book 2

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Nova fell asleep almost as soon as she laid down, the stress and physical workout tired her out. She didn’t stay asleep for long though, nightmares started to creep in about that shed.

Then nightmares about the people all over looking for their ears and eyes. Each nightmare was worse than the last one. Then the final nightmare, was where James was holding her ears out for her, so she could choose a spot on his wall for him to hang them.

Each time she tried to sleep, they’d pop in and she would scream, till finally she just laid there and rested.

5:08

She knew with the lack of sleep, things were not going to go as smoothly as they did today. She will get tired a lot more. There was nothing she could do though but to press onward.

When morning came she was a mess, at least though she was still dry and the rain had stopped.

She drank some water and had a hand full of trail mix she made. After packing everything up again, she was off into the forest again.

Again something was driving her to go a certain direction, she was a little too tired to care, as long as it was the opposite direction of her house she was ok with it. I

As it turned out it was also the direction she needed to get over the mountains to that town. The sun had

come out for a little bit and then hid behind the clouds again. It was alright as long as it didn’t rain for a little while.

She was hoping to find a small stream and catch some dinner. Have a nice small fire and relax. She found some wild blueberries and they made a delightful lunch along with her trail mix.

Just as she was about to go looking for the stream she could hear water running, it sounded like a waterfall. Yes, she said to no one. Maybe a bath as well.

Maggi Snyder waited for Nova at the crossroads for about 20 minutes. She decided that it was best to go to work, she had a feeling that Nova was on the verge of running away.

Nova had left a note in her mailbox. Telling her if she didn’t show up for work to just go on without her. Maggi wasn’t sure what to do, so she waited just in case Nova chickened out or something else stopped her from going.

When she didn’t show Maggi was happy, Nova finally decided it was time to go, good for her. Her mother Kathy was a piece of shit and her stepfather was the rest of the shit pile. 2

When Maggi pulled up to the motel, there was a new guest in cabin three. She wondered what kind of guest they had this time, it was usually the seedy type looking for a place to hide for a few days.

This car though looked more like an official car, like a law enforcement official. Well, well she thought,

perhaps the local craptastic Sheriff is in for a little surprise. Maybe finally he will be investigated.

Perhaps she might run into their guest and give him a little information, she has been saving for the right occasion.

Brutus and Jack were sniffing out a pine tree, someone had been under it, perhaps sheltering from the rain. They couldn’t pick up an exact scent to tell them anything. Whoever they were they were careful.

Even the tracks that were left behind, didn’t tell them much, there wasn’t a scent at all on them. The tracks themselves were visible only here and there. They were also in places where they would disappear in a short while, by the litter of the forest floor.

Whoever they were they were light, perhaps a female or a young male. They decided to see if they could follow them. It wasn’t long before the trail was gone. Brutus sat down frustrated, it had been a long time since someone could elude him.

As they were sitting there thinking about their next move, Brutus’s stomach let out a mighty growl, it was then that they realized that they hadn’t eaten in quite a while. Jack remembered a stream that went through here close by and a waterfall with a pool. D

It was good fishing, Brutus licked his lips in anticipation. They headed that way at a fast but silent pace, just in case the mystery person was around.

When they got to the waterfall area though they discovered that the

mystery person wasn’t a mystery anymore. There was a female and she was swimming naked in their fishing

hole.

Brutus sniffed around looking for her things, it took him a long time but he did find them, carefully hidden inside a tarp in the bushes.

He hid, watching with fascination at the female in the water. She seemed to be enjoying herself. What was she doing this far though up into the Bear Mountain region?

He decided that since she was so good at concealing her presence, that perhaps he should check her out a little differently.

He stayed as Brutus and in a nice hidden spot watched the female. She was making her way to shore now, when she slowly stepped out of the

pool Jack was mesmerized by the sight, she was a goddess.

She suddenly looked afraid and started to look all around her, her gaze shifted to where they were hiding. There was no way she could see them, still, they felt that she could sense them

She quickly went to her where she hid her things, got dressed still wet, arranged a few things in her pack, put what looked like a really heavy pack on her back, she was off into the forest again, this time she kinda disappeared into it.

Jack and Brutus just sat there in their hiding place, they both felt a huge pull towards this beautiful female. Was she their mate? If so what was their mate doing out here in the middle of nowhere?.

Nova was not happy, she got in her bath which was wonderful but before she could catch her dinner she felt the eyes of a predator watching her. Probably a bear wanting to either fish or drink. So much for a hot meal tonight, she said with a sigh.

She pressed on, though she didn’t feel the pull this time as she continued to travel. She covered quite a bit of ground between yesterday and today. She was feeling safer now.

Even though that piece of shit was due to return tomorrow she was happy that she will have even more distance between them. Every time she thought of him or that shed she wanted to run around and scream like a madwoman.

She needed to get to that town sooner rather than later, the longer it took her the more likely another

person was going to die. She also felt a little bit stupid, that she didn’t know what was going on.

She lived there, how couldn’t she see it. In truth she felt bad, she was so absorbed into her world of getting away that she just didn’t go looking, when she felt the warning signals.

She said a silent prayer that she would bring that piece of filthy crap to justice. She hoped that he didn’t notice that she was in his shed. That would seriously be a problem, he would move it to god knows where and the evidence would be gone.

Not to mention what was he doing with the rest of the bodies. Why was it that it was always the Sheriff that picks him up and drops him off? Are they working together? So many questions so few answers.

‘It was then that another memory

came to her, the necklace she got for her 18th birthday. She never took it off because it was the only thing her mother had ever given her. She touched it with her fingers wondering where it came from.

If it did come from one of his victims. then she was going to keep it around her neck till she reached the police. She sent up another silent prayer, to the owner of the necklace, that she will keep it safe for her and will make sure he pays for what he has done.

Another part of her was cringing at the fact that if the necklace was from one of his victims and her mother gave it to her. That means that her mother also at least had some knowledge of what was going on.

She had to keep pushing herself, this was bigger than just her getting away, this was a race against time and she

was running out of it.

Special Agent David was getting a lot of unexpected and very nervous visitors today. All of which told him the same thing, the two people he should be looking at are the Sheriff and a man with the last name Springer.

Well now we have a start, investigating the Sheriff is not always a pleasant job, nor easy. He called a few of his buddies to do some deep background checks on the two suspects. He decided to wait to talk to the Sheriff for a day or so until the reports came back

He suspected that there were more than just drugs and missing people happening around here. You don’t have that many missing people just up and fucking vanish without a body

floating in the river now and then.

For now, he was going to take a drive and get a little bit of the lay of the land, as well as the residents who reside here. He was also going to drive over to the other counties, the ones who have all the missing people reports.

Surely there has to be at least one person who knows something or has seen it.