With In The Night by Richard Ridyard
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SUMMARY: Part 7 of the puzzle. Just a normal drive home from work?With In The Night
By Richard Ridyard
It was evening and Emma had just finished work. She got into her car as usual and started her journey back home. About three minutes into the journey she glanced at her rear view mirror and happened to notice that a black car was following her. Being a rational woman Emma remained calm, but kept her eye on the vehicle. Turning off abruptly, she noticed that the car behind also turned. It then started to tailgate and whenever Emma speeded up, the mysterious car did the same.
Emma now began to panic. With horror stories of late night attacks haunting her mind, she leant over and locked the passenger's door. In a desperate attempt to lose the predator, she took a winding route home, but this was to no avail as the car followed her down every lane and eventually onto the motorway. Suspicious and now afraid, Emma could not shake off the terrible feeling in the pit of her stomach. When she reached her town, she started speeding through red lights to get away from the black car, but it relentlessly did the same.
Emma pulled hastily into her drive way. She felt petrified as the troublesome car also sped into her drive and pulled up along side her car. By this stage she was in a state of near hysteria, so she slammed her fist down on the car-horn. After some moments, on hearing the persistent noise, her husband ran out of the house and was alarmed to se her so upset. He angrily confronted the strange driver, What the hell is going on here?' he demanded, as the driver scrambled to open his door in haste. The driver's face pale as he rushed from his car and tried to grab out at Emma, who was still sitting, shaking in her front seat, with the doors firmly locked. She tearfully shouted through the window, emotionally explaining that the man had followed her all the way from work. Her husband grabbed the stranger forcefully. As he did so, the man whispered cautiously, I followed your wife because I had just visited my cousin...' He gasped for breath as he was roughly shaken. He continued, ...As I got in my car, I saw a man sneak into your wife's car, just before she took off. Check if you don't believe me.'
Dubiously, Emma's husband loosened his grip on the stranger to yank open the back door of his wife's car. Much to the surprise of both Emma and her husband, there was a man who was squatting behind the seat, clutching a knife covered in blood. Who was this person and why was he there? Emma looks closer at the man and a cold chill goes down her spine. She is shocked as she recognises him. This man is a patient at the mental hospital Mr David Williams. How the hell did you escape David and why is your knife covered in blood?' David just sat there smiling as he began to hum the main theme to the opera The Merry Widow.
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