Broken Oaths (Lisa Davis and David Green) novel Chapter 9

Chapter 9

After David left, Helen stepped out from the side.

“See that, sis?

He loves me!

If I were you, I’d leave him.”

Helen taunted, waving her phone. “All I did was lie about you hiring thugs to harass me. Look how frantic he got.”

“Save your tricks. Take the trash if you want it.”

Lisa replied calmly before turning to pay respects at her parents’ grave.

Helen fumed at her composure. “Who do you think you are, acting high and mighty? You’re just a deserted wife!

David waited five years to marry me.

You were the joke all those years.

You’re nothing without him!”

Lisa paused. Though emotionally drained, the words still stung. She turned, fighting back tears. “Without David, I’m still a Davis.

Even as Mrs. Green, you’d have no right to shout at me.

Helen, remember this: I’m leaving David, not because you drove me away, but because I chose to discard him.”

“Lisa Davis!”

Helen’s eyes burned crimson as she glared at Lisa’s retreating figure. “You’ll regret this!”

Ignoring her, Lisa knelt before her parents’ tombstones to bid farewell. She recounted the past five years with eerie calmness, not shedding a single tear.

“Mom, Dad, I don’t love David anymore. Don’t worry about me. I’ll take care of myself.”

Dusk approached when she reluctantly left the cemetery. David never came. No call came through.

The remote graveyard required walking down a narrow path to reach the main road. After her final goodbye, Lisa trudged toward the highway.

Within minutes, footsteps echoed behind her. She quickened her pace, pulling out her phone to dial emergency services.

Before she could press call, a handkerchief clamped over her mouth from behind. Lisa thrashed violently until darkness swallowed her consciousness—chloroform fumes overwhelming her senses.

Icy water crashed over Lisa, jolting her awake.

She found herself bound backward to a pillar, eyes blindfolded, body trembling violently from cold and fear.

“Who are you?

Why am I here?”

Her voice shook as primal terror seized her.

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