Alex
Maryann killed Garth with one fucking bullet to the head. I don’t know where the hell she got a gun from, but I should admit I am glad she had it. The only downside to her killing him is that I wanted to do it. I guess at least this way I get what I want and I keep Adele happy. I guess I can say Adele is happy. She has the peace of knowing that I wasn’t the one to kill him. At least I have the satisfaction of beating the shit out of him. Frank had Oliver get the girls out of the house while we got rid of Garth. I breathed a sigh of relief knowing that Adele will be at the safe house until we're done here and not in the next room.
We found a large rug to wrap Garth in and backed Franks’ car into the driveway. While Thomas made sure that no one was around, Frank and I, threw the body into the trunk. We also got rid of everything that was broken and cleaned the place better than any professional housekeeper. By the time we walked out, nothing looked out of place or like anyone had even been in the house. I walked into the bedroom and made sure there was nothing left in it that could be tied to Adele. I even took the time to make the damn bed. As far as anyone would be concerned a man lived at the house alone and went out and never returned.
Thomas made several calls to some of his construction buddies. He found several construction sites that would be pouring cement the next morning. When we found a hole big enough to dump Garth in, we delivered him to that site. We threw his ass in the hole so he could be buried in the morning. It’s a good thing that Thomas has friends in high places. Or maybe you could even say they are low places since they don’t even ask questions. Our construction buddies are really on a need to know basis. They tell us when we ask but they don’t ask questions or go checking on anything before they start to pour. They are always paid quite nicely to not ask those kinds of questions.
Once we have disposed of the body, we head to the safe house.
“What are we going to do about Maryann?” Frank asks and I knew we would somehow have to deal with her. She killed a man and we got rid of the body. What if she regrets it and decides to turn herself in? We may have just fucked ourselves by getting rid of Garth for her. Will she hold it over us?
“We’ll talk to her to find out where her head’s at.”
When we arrive at the safe house, Oliver is standing outside smoking a cigarette. My eyes lift the closer I get to him because Oliver doesn’t smoke.
“When did you start smoking, Oliver?” I ask as Frank and Thomas look at each other waiting for the answer.
“When you sent me here with those two women,” Oliver retorts and I hear Thomas chuckle behind me.
There are no lights on in the house. It’s pitch dark, so I turn on the light switch as I walk in. Maryann and Adele are sitting in the dark. There are two chairs in the room along with a couch. The chairs are facing each other and they are each sitting in one. I look at them both and I decide to sit on the couch which is in the middle.
“Is there a reason you were sitting in the dark?”
“What did you do with him?” Adele asks.
“He is somewhere he won’t be found.”
“What are you thinking about Maryann?” I ask and Adele and I both look at her.
“I’m going to prison,” she whispers.
“No, you aren’t. You are okay with that aren’t you?” I ask her and she shrugs her shoulders as Frank, Thomas, and Oliver walk in.
I slide to the end of the couch so I can be within touching distance of Maryann. I reach over and touch her knee so that she looks at me while I am questioning her.
“Maryann, it’s very important that you understand what happened tonight. You killed Garth and we got rid of the evidence. If you go down, you could be taking all of us down with you.” I tell her and I notice something in her eyes change. She looks at me and nods and I breath sigh of relief knowing that we’ll all be fine.
We all stay overnight at the safe house. We want to watch Maryann to make sure she doesn’t crack. Both she and Adele appear to be sad, but thankfully not devastated by Garth’s death. I watch out the window as Maryann and Adele look to be in deep conversation on the porch. When I walk outside to join them they both become silent.
“What are you two discussing?”
“My future. Now that I can come back among the living, everyone will think of me as Garth’s wife. It will be a little hard to move on since he won’t be around to sign divorce papers,” Maryann says and I lower my head realizing how we fucked up by getting rid of Garth so soon. He’s dead, so he won’t be signing any divorce papers. Maryann will be considered a married woman unless we dig up Garth’s fucking body.
“I guess we didn’t think of that. I’ll take care of it.”
Both Maryann and Adele look at me and I wonder if I just wrote a check my ass won’t be able to cash.
“How will you take care of it?” Adele asks me and I chuckle at her and remind her to never ask questions. Once the girls come into the house for the night, I grab Thomas and head out to make good on my promise.
Thomas curses at me the entire ride back to the construction site. I understand why he is so pissed off so I don’t even bother to argue back with him or defend myself. Garth will be buried tomorrow morning and if that happens Maryann will never truly be free. She needs the official death certificate and that won’t happen if we do it this way. Garth will only disappear and that shit isn’t good enough. Thirty minutes later, Thomas and I are both swearing as we carry Garth’s dead, heavy body out of the same hole we threw him into. We throw him into the back of the truck and we head back to his house. When we back into the driveway, we make sure no one is around and luckily all the surrounding homes are dark, which means they are all in bed and not likely to become witnesses. We turn off the lights to the truck and push open the unlocked front door. We do another check and we carry Garth back into the house and lay him on the kitchen floor.
A few hours later Thomas and I are watching down the road as the house explodes.