Excerpt from RAGE HOUSE
“You wanted to know about Mr. Rainkar?” He asked. “My aunt told me you wanted information. You should have asked me instead of getting her all excited.”
Gary’s gaze turned sharp, as if he was gauging her apology and determining if she was being glib. “He was scum,” he spoke with ferocity. “A creep that I would have loved to use as a punching bag. Everyone in the neighborhood could hear the pleas and sounds of beating but no one did anything. A bunch of yellow bellies. It was a few days before he ran when I heard him late one night. When I told my aunt, she pleaded with me to not get involved. Said he might come after her.”
“So you didn’t do anything either?” Alisha knew it sounded like an accusation but she was appalled by whatever was going on before she arrived.
“Of course I did.” Gary’s eyes lit with fury. “I followed him when he went to the grocery, told him point blank to stop what he was doing. That bastard sent the police to my house and accused me of threatening to kill him. With my reputation, it wasn’t hard for them to believe. They gave me a warning and my parents ordered me to stay away.”
“How come you didn’t tell the police about Mr. Rainkar?”
“Apparently he’s pals with some cops. Didn’t believe me when I told them and said none of the neighbors ever complained.” Gary scoffed. “Jerks like him always get off. I didn’t give up though. I called my aunt every night for updates. That last night, I could hear the damned man on the phone. He was that loud. I made my over immediately but by then whatever was going on was over. I saw him leave in his car. Alone. Never saw him again.”
Alisha nodded. “That’s terrible.”
Gary turned serious. “No, what’s terrible is that no one saw his wife and kids. I saw him in his car alone.”
“I wonder what he did to them.”
Gary shook his head a smile playing on his lips but not caused by humor. It was as if he was making fun of her for not getting it and Alisha crossed her arms.
“You don’t get it, do you? No one saw his family again. Rumor has it, that he’s buried them in the house.”
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