Chapter 5

Sam—I knew something was wrong when Robert called me into his office. We had been working late that night. We were watching a young wife, a mother of two, being gang-banged in her bedroom. She thought her husband was on a business trip, not sitting in our war room watching as those boys made her ‘airtight’. These guys were two of her neighbors’ teenage sons and one of their friends. I will never understand cheaters.

When I walked into Robert’s office there were two detectives that I knew. They had that ‘I wish I was anywhere but here’ look on their faces. I knew what that meant. A death notification.

Robert told me to sit and then he said, “Sam, Leona has been murdered.”

I was in shock. “Leona, she is at the gym. Was there a robbery?” One of the detectives said, “No Sam. She was found tied to a bed in a hotel room. I am sorry to tell you this, but she had been stabbed with a spear, scalped and her heart cut out. The woman who did it was caught eating her heart by the maid. That poor lady is going to need some counseling. Anyway, we have the perp in custody. She did not even try to escape. She is on her way back to a hospital for the criminally insane. She had escaped about 6 months ago. We also found another scalp in the room. It has red hair. We believe it to be the hair of the young woman killed last week.”

After the detectives left Robert and I sat and talked. Leona must have taken up with a serial killer. She was cheating on me! The detectives said the room was rented this afternoon in Leona’s name. She had paid for it in cash. I never suspected a thing.

I wonder if this was the first time, or had she been cheating the entire time we were together?

I went home and tried to figure out what, why and when it started. There were no good answers. The next day they autopsied her body. Ketamine, an animal tranquilizer was found in her system. That answered the question of how she was tied to the bed. I knew the Freak well enough to know she would never allow that.

Her body was released two days later. I had her cremated. I did not want anybody to see her after what all she went thru. The police returned her hair, and it was burned with her body. At the small service I had pictures of her when she won her body building titles posted around the room. I knew she would like that. I never thought badly of Leona for cheating on me. It may have been my fault. I should have gotten her help when I noticed the Freak taking so much control of her. My mistake was thinking I could control the Freak and I could not.

Author’s Note—I like this character ‘Linda’! My readers will see her again! This is also the second time I have used the ‘Lioness’. In the first story she was a badass terrorist (The Ex-Cop). I always kill her off, maybe next time she will have a happier ending!