Blue Bloods of Bois D’Arc (18 page)

Chapter 41

Some people never change

Eddie turned in the direction of Silk Stocking Lane
,
the derogatory name given Park Street by envious townspeople who couldn’t afford to live there. Park Street led to the Worthington’s house in the Hill Top enclave. The silence was thick enough to slice. Just two blocks away from Hill Top Estates, Cass was feeling more secure. Eddie made a quick, hard right turn east on Highway 69.

“Where are you going? This isn’t the way home!”

“I want to show you what we’ve done with the lake house. You won’t recognize the place.”

“Look, Eddie, maybe another time. I’m tired and need to rest a while. My shoulder is beginning to hurt and my pain pills are at the house.”

“Don’t worry, we’ve got pain pills at the lake house. You can rest there.”

“But I don’t want to go to your lake house. Will you please just take me home?”

Sweat beads began to trickle down Eddie’s forehead. “Come on, Cass, be a good sport. Humor me, I just want to show you the lake house improvements.”

Cass sighed. “Okay, but will you please take me home then? I’m really not feeling well.”

A short time later, the classic Mercedes exited onto the road leading to the Blue Water community. In less than a quarter mile, an arched sign over the black wrought-iron gate bearing the Winthrop name came into view. The gate parted when they approached.

“Looks like you’ve added on to it and changed the color scheme,” Cass observed.

“You haven’t seen anything yet. Wait until you get a look at the inside.”

The car rolled to a silent stop on the blacktop driveway. The doors popped up and Eddie helped Cass out of the low-slung car seat. Cass inspected the new landscaping as they approached the front door. When they entered, her eyes widened at the sight of the beautiful interior.

“You weren’t kidding. It doesn’t look like the same house. You must have taken out the wall between the great room and kitchen. It looks so roomy now.”

“Wait until you see the upstairs,” he said with a broad grin then grasped her by the good arm and ushered her up the stairs. “This is the master bedroom suite.” A king-size bed dominated the room. A dressing table was backed by a mirror that extended to the ceiling. A big screen TV was mounted on the wall opposite the bed. He pointed Cass to the bathroom door. “We added fifteen feet to accommodate the huge adjoining bathroom suite. It’s complete with separate walk-in shower, a Jacuzzi, and a custom steam room. Unmatched even by the Adolphus. What do you think now? Worth the ride?”

“Great, now take me home.” Uncomfortable, Cass made an about-face and headed toward the door.

Eddie caught her by the bed and spun her around. “This could be ours. My parents hardly ever come down here anymore.” He forcefully sat her down on the bed.

“Eddie, what are you doing? Just stop it right now. You’re hurting my shoulder. The tour’s over. Take me home right now,” Cass demanded in a much stronger voice. “We can leave right now and I’ll forget this ever happened.”

Eddie stood in front of her, blocking any chance she had of leaving and said, “We’ll leave when I’m good and ready. Eddie’s attitude changed to a more forceful demeanor. “Is Gramps’s little angel upset because she isn’t getting her way? I thought you’d changed when you got married, but you’re the same self-centered bitch you were in high school. Your little cripple dumped you so you went to SMU and trapped Roger. The poor guy was suckered in by your insatiable sex drive and bought you expensive things. But it didn’t work out, did it?”

“Eddie, stop it, you’re scaring me. What do you want from me?”

“I just want you to see what a man I can be. I may have been the class nerd, but I had the biggest cock in the class. Nobody wanted to shower next to me in PE. They were too intimidated.” Eddie dropped his trousers and underwear and displayed his throbbing hard on. “Did the cripple or Roger have anything like this? Be honest. It’s the biggest one you’ve ever seen, right?”

Cass felt trapped. “Eddie, please don’t do this. Listen to me, I’ve just had a miscarriage and haven’t healed yet. Please just take me home.”

“We could’ve had sex in high school, but you always had some excuse. And you let the cripple have his way with you. Well, you don’t have an excuse now and he’s busy working at his little airplane factory. Don’t fight me. I’ll be gentle. You know you want it. You always did, just not with me. Now you’ll know what you’ve been missing.”

“Please don’t do this, Eddie. Please, just take me home,” Cass cried.

“Lie still and you’ll feel what you’ve been missing all these years.” Eddie pulled her slacks and panties off in one swift move. He pried her legs apart and slowly penetrated her. She shrieked in pain, but it didn’t stop him. He was too strong and forced himself completely into her still-tender vagina.

“You bastard,” Cass yelled at him. “You think you’re a man because you have a big cock? What kind of man rapes a sick and defenseless woman?” she screamed at the top of her lungs. His thrusts intensified.

Her shouts grew louder with each thrust. “Eddie, stop, you’re hurting me.” She hit him across the side of his head as hard as she could with her uninjured arm.

Temporarily stunned, he then grabbed her wrists and pinned her arms against the bed’s soft mattress.

“You’re hurting my shoulder! Please let me up and take me home.”

“Scream all you want. Nobody can hear you,” he said as his hips humped that much harder and faster until he came. “There, that’s how a man makes love to his woman,” he boasted. Breathing heavily after his conquest, he withdrew his cock, dripping with bright red blood. “Oh my God, you’re bleeding.”

“I told you I wasn’t healed. Take me to the hospital. I could bleed to death.”

“No! No doctors. I’ll take care of it.” He ran into the bathroom and came back with towels to catch the blood. The bedspread was already soaked with a sticky scarlet mass.

Cass rolled over on her side in pain and holding a towel between her legs. “Eddie, please take me to the hospital right now. It hurts so bad,” she pleaded in a frightened voice. Her eyes were glassy and her body began to shake. “Please hurry. I think I’m going to faint.”

Eddie cleaned himself up and dressed quickly, then helped Cass pull on her slacks with a towel stuffed in the crotch.

“Okay, we’re going to the emergency room in Sabine County. It’s not too far from here.”

Panic had taken over. Eddie scooped Cass up in his arms and carried her down the stairs and sat her in his car. He sped out of the driveway laying down black tire marks all the way to the gravel road. The classic car fishtailed on the gravel, kicking up dust and dirt.

Cass groaned painfully, took deep breaths, and tried to remain conscious. Her whole body hurt from his rough treatment.

A Deputy Sheriff was parked behind a big Dairy Queen sign on the farm-to-market road and hit his siren when Eddie flew by. He caught up to the silver Mercedes and pulled him over.

“What’s your hurry, son?” he asked as he strolled up to Eddie’s lowered window.

Before he could ask for driver’s license and registration Eddie began yammering, “I’m on the way to the emergency room—she’s bleeding to death!” He raised a blood-soaked towel to convince the officer he was telling the truth.

“Ma’am, are you in pain?”

“Yes, I’ve had a miscarriage and need to get to the hospital quickly, Officer.” Her voice was fading.

“Okay, young fella, stay close behind me, I’ll give you an escort. I know you won’t have any trouble keeping up with what you’re driving.”

The police cruiser’s lights flashed and its siren wailed as the two vehicles raced down the narrow road toward Sabine County Memorial Hospital. The officer radioed ahead that they were coming with a woman who had a miscarriage. As soon as they pulled up to the emergency entrance, a nurse met them with a wheelchair. She was quickly wheeled into in one of the vacant emergency bays. Eddie had to wait outside while Cass was stripped of her bloody clothes and fitted with an oxygen nose clip and a heart monitor. Nurses worked feverishly to clean her up and gave her antibiotics and a shot to calm her down.

“I hope your wife’s going to be all right, son. I’m sorry for your loss.”

“Thank you, Officer, I appreciate your help,” Eddie responded. His panic had subsided a little and he played along, enjoying the idea that the officer thought Cass was his wife.

The deputy pulled a little black notebook from his pocket and approached Eddie. “I’ll need to ask a few questions, before I go. What is your full name, address, telephone number, and occupation? It’s standard procedure for my report.”

Eddie froze. He motioned the office off to a corner of the room where they couldn’t be overheard. “Officer,” he said, almost in a whisper, “I need to ask you a really big favor. You see, we aren’t married yet and her family would really be upset if they found out she was pregnant and had a miscarriage before we get married next month. They are very strict Catholics. You see the position I’m in? Do you think you could, maybe, lose that report before you get back to your office? You could save me from being run out of town, or worse, by her father and three brothers. I really would appreciate it.” Eddie pulled a roll of fifty-dollar bills from his pocket. “Let me show you my appreciation.”

“I don’t know, son. What you’re askin’ me to do violates our official procedures.”

Eddie peeled off several bills. “Tell me when to stop.”

“Uh . . . I think that will be plenty,” he said, pointing to the stack of bills in Eddie’s hand. “Don’t get the idea that I normally do this. I’ve never done anything against regulations before, but you two look like a nice young couple and I’d like to see you get off on the right foot.” The deputy took the money and walked away. “Have a good day now, you hear,” he called as he left.

Chapter 42

End of the line

Nearly a half-hour passed before Eddie was allowed in to see Cass. She was dressed in a hospital gown while her heart monitor beeped a steady sixty beats a minute.

“How’re you feeling?” he asked sheepishly. “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to hurt you. I just wanted you to know how much I love you.”

“You have a hell of a way of showing it,” she shot back. “You really messed up this time, Eddie. I can have you arrested and put away for a long time for what you just did.”

“Please, you have to believe me. I love you. I wouldn’t hurt you for the world. I just got carried away. That’s the effect you’ve always had on me. It’s been bottled up for so many years, I couldn’t control myself. You have to understand.”

“I understand you raped me and could have caused me to bleed to death.
That’s
what I understand, Eddie.” Cass’s stare bored into his panicked eyes. “I should have known better than to get into the car with you. You tried the same trick that day in the school parking lot. Trying to get your hand up my skirt and grabbing my boobs. You haven’t changed at all. What a waste. That big cock’s going to get you twenty years in Huntsville.”

“Do you hear yourself? You just said at lunch that I would always be your friend. Can’t we leave it at that? I’ll do anything you say if we’ll just keep this between us. Okay?”

“While finishing my blood transfusion, I will come up with a believable story about why we’ve been gone so long and I’m wearing different clothes. Only if asked, will you ever explain exactly what I tell you when we get back to town or I’ll ruin the rest of your miserable life, you bastard.”

The classic Mercedes rolled up quietly beneath the giant old oak tree in front of the Worthington mansion. It had been dark for over an hour. All the lights in the Worthington house were on and silhouettes could be seen moving around behind the closed drapes.

“Let me help you to the door,” Eddie said timidly.

“Don’t touch me, I think you’ve done enough for one day. I can make it on my own, but I don’t ever want to see you again and if you even look in my direction again, your ass is mine and you’re going away for a long time. Do you understand? You are out of my life forever, Eddie. Goodbye and go to hell!”

Cass turned away and painfully made her way to the lighted front porch. She took several deep breaths to prepare for the barrage of questions she would face. She grasped the door handle, put on her best bold face and opened it.

Margaret got to her first. “Where on earth have you been? I was about ready to call the police. You look terrible. Where are your other clothes? Are you all right Cass?”

Cass raised her good arm for silence as she made her way to the living room couch. She collected herself for a moment and began the cover story she had told Eddie to tell if anyone asked.

“Eddie wanted to show off his fancy car and took me to see their lake house renovations after lunch. The house is beautiful; they’ve done a lot of work on it. While we were there, he started in on how we could have all that now that I am going to be a free woman soon. Eddie is still the same old Eddie I’ve known all my life. We went out on their boat and watched the sun set. He kept on about how we should get together and I got tired of it. We had a big argument and I wound up in the lake. I needed some clean, dry clothes, so we went to Dallas because all the local stores were already closed. I have seen the last of Eddie Winthrop. If I never see him again, it will be too soon. Now, I’m really very tired and need to get to bed. We can talk more tomorrow. Good night Mom, Dad, Gramps.” Cass rose slowly and unsteadily made her way to her bedroom.

“Cass, what’s that on your arm, it looks like a bruise?”

“Tomorrow, Mom, I’m just too tired.”