Chapter 3
Jake had been sitting out front of the mayor’s office, he was getting ready to go up and see Lalena, and he missed her. He was getting ready to get out when he saw the mayor and Lalena walk out of the office. He watched as they went up to the mayor’s car, and he let her in the door.
He followed them to see where they went and wasn’t surprised when he saw it was the mayor’s house. Jake could feel his blood begin to boil. “What a fucking slut. We aren’t even broke up for a full day and here she is going to his house.” He hit the steering wheel of his jeep.
“We should make them pay for it.” He could hear his Uncle Ray’s words once more.
Before this moment he would have never hurt Lalena, but now his mind snapped. “She didn’t care about me, she couldn’t have.” Jake fumed as he drove to his uncle’s house.
He walked into the house. “Uncle Ray, let’s see those ideas you have again.” Jake said to his uncle.
His uncle pulled out the plans once more and looked at Jake. “What happened?” He asked.
“I went to see her and they were coming out of the office. I followed them and they went to his place.” Jake stated.
“You know I don’t have any love for the mayor, but how do you know they were doing anything? He questioned.
“I just know.” Jake said.
“Alright, so here are the various ideas. The one’s I think are best are these.” He said pulling out a few of the plans. He showed them to Jake who studied the ideas and let his hatred full his anger more with every second.
“Tell me Uncle Ray, how did you resist the urge to do it that first time?” Jake asked.
“It was hard honestly. But as I was talking to the mayor I realized that he really hadn’t known anything about my plans to reconcile with her. I couldn’t kill this man because of a mistake that my own wife did. I would much rather kill her and be done with it.” Ray explained.
“So why are you so willing to help me with this? It sounds like your forgave him for it.” Jake questioned.
“Because I did something bad because of him and I blame him now.” Ray said.
“What did you do?” Jake asked.
“You always asked me where your Aunt Shelly went, I told you she moved to Florida, but that isn’t true. I’ve been lucky to get away with it so far. She didn’t have any family; our side just figured that she stopped talking to them once the divorce was final. But she isn’t living in Florida.” Ray stated.
“Okay so where did she go?” Jake queried.
“Jake, this goes no further than between us, okay.” Ray sat forward and said.
“Sure of course, I told you before what we talk about stays between us.” Jake stated.
“I cut her up and fed her to the pigs out back.” Ray stated.
Jake sat up straight and looked at his uncle. “No way, come on you’ve always liked to pull jokes on me. Tell me where did she go?” Jake asked again.
“I’m serious. The pigs have eaten her all up now.” Ray said again.
“You’re being serious. You killed her and fed her to the pigs? How could you kill her?” Jake asked.
“What do you think you’re talking about doing to them right now? Did you think we were just going to rough them up a bit and it would be fine?” Ray questioned. His face showing the fact that he was shocked that Jake hadn’t realized that the idea was to kill them.
“I don’t know killing someone seems pretty bad. I know you said something about a bomb last night, but I wasn’t really paying enough attention. I thought you were just talking, not that serious.” Jake commented.
“I’m deadly serious. If he would have never gone out with Shelly she would still be here.” Ray said.
“But you were already in the middle of your divorce when that happened right?” Jake asked.
“Yeah we were, but if he wouldn’t have come around, I could have talked her into coming back.” Ray stated. “I know she still loved me, but he changed her mind about me.” Ray added.
It was at that point that Jake realized his Uncle was just a bit crazy. “Let me think about it more, I’ll look over the plans and let you know, is that okay?” Jake asked.
“Yeah sure of course, don’t take forever though, he should pay soon.” Ray stated.
“Sure, I forgot I had to work at 1 today though, so I have to get ready. I’ll try and decide while I’m at work which one is best though.” Jake said.
“Let me know, you know you’re like a son to me and I hate to see you hurting.” Ray commented.
“Thanks I appreciate it Uncle Ray.” Jake stated and went to the other room to get ready. He had been angry enough to agree with just about anything at first when he got home. But when he had found out that his Uncle had fed his Aunt to the pigs it had made him really think. Am I really thinking about killing someone over Lalena? Or even better yet, he’s talking about killing both of them, how could I do that?
Jake knew that the anger would vanish and the pain of losing her would end as well. But killing someone that was permanent he didn't want any part of that.