A Secret Unleashed - Chapter 4
Chapter 4
Louisa’s POV
Livid didn’t even begin to describe how I was feeling. Their disregard for their family disgusted me. I shouldn’t have been surprised by Taylor and Zac’s reluctance to answer calls from their wives, they enjoyed any possible opportunity to escape from them. But I was disappointed in Isaac. I knew we weren’t together any more, despite the fact that nobody knew, but I’d never expected him to completely ignore my calls. He should know that I’d only try and contact him if it was a complete emergency. As usual everyone had decided I was the best person to sort everyone and everything out. It was something that I was used to, after fifteen years as a member of the family I knew that any time something went wrong it was me that ended up trying to put it right. I didn’t mind to be honest, it made me feel wanted…needed… But it was something I resented when it came to Natalie and Kate. How they were incapable of sorting their own shit out really annoyed me. Part of me should have felt sorry for them, knowing that their husbands didn’t love them the way that they should, that they’d only started out as a cover for their incestuous relationship. But I didn’t. I actually saw it as being their own fault, being too blind to see that they weren’t happy, too wrapped up in themselves to notice or even care. I felt myself getting more and more wound up, as a hatred I never knew I held inside began to force its way out.
I’d spent years keeping their secret for them, and what did I get in return? An almighty guilt-trip off Isaac, raped by Taylor and ignored by all three. So why the fuck was I driving to his sodding house to look after his god-damn kids?! Because I was a good person? Because I forgave him for what he’d done because he was ill? No. Because those kids had done nothing wrong and didn’t deserve to suffer. I’d never truly hated anyone before but I’d come to the realisation over the past few weeks, as I contemplated my life without Isaac, that Taylor was the root of everything that had gone wrong in my life. I hated him with every fibre of my being….I wished he was dead. No, that was too easy. I wished him a long and torturous death. Yes, that was better. As I rounded the next corner I braked suddenly, seeing the accident in the centre of the road. I pulled onto the sidewalk and switched off the engine. Running swiftly to the first car I wanted to see if there was anything I could do. A large tree branch had fallen straight across a car and two others were smashed into its sides. As I reached the drivers door of the first vehicle and saw the lifeless body of a middle-aged man staring unseeing into the distance, a trickle of blood still falling from his ear, I fought the urge to vomit on the spot. I checked for a pulse despite being certain that he was long gone. I found none and made my way to the next car. This time I couldn’t fight my body’s response and I spectacularly painted the rear tyre of the car with my lunch. The crushed form of the young woman who’d been driving made no move as I continued to heave. After regaining what little composure I had left I wiped my mouth on my sleeve and half stumbled to the final vehicle. A light blue truck had embedded itself in the side of the second car. The smell of defecation mixed with blood and my own vomit stinging my nostrils. I only had to peer in the truck quickly to ascertain that there was nothing I could do. Nobody deserved to die like this, no one. I thought back to my judgement of Taylor only minutes earlier. No, I wouldn’t wish this on anyone, not even him, the person who had turned my world on its head and made me suffer. Tears pricked at my eyes as I thought of the families of the people I’d just found. Pulling my phone from my pocket I made to call the authorities. The wreckage would need to be cleared away before it caused yet more casualties. As I got through to the harassed sounding woman on the end of the line I began explaining what I’d found. I stopped mid sentence as I heard the squeal of brakes heading my way. Turning to face the oncoming jeep there was nowhere to run.