Seduction

SEDUCTION

Chapter One

The night was peaceful in Grand Forks, North Dakota as the city sat wonderfully under white, drifted clouds with the stars that sparkled beautifully across the sky. Underneath all the glamour of the residential area sat a small, perfected home that was placed in the midst of the neighborhood city. In the house stood dark, painful memories and loads of deceptions due to Leonard Devaroe, a Forks Electric Company worker, who was Rebecca’s destructive husband. He was a delirious man, who she married three years before, but during that time he was horribly abusive to her. Rebecca’s body was covered with fatal bruises from the top of her head to the bottom of her legs. They were so brutal that there were moments when she could not get out of bed to take care of her two year old twins, Taneka and Tina. The times they shared were unbearable, but soon Rebecca would find the strength to deal with Leonard before he took her and her twin daughter’s lives away.

The atmosphere in the two bedroom house of Rebecca Devaroe was quiet as she bathed Taneka and Tina in the bath tub of water. They appeared cheerful and the look on their faces were anything but sad. Their beauty was stunning, and they were the spinning image of their mother with their light skin, brown hair and gorgeous, hazel eyes. From the moment Rebecca saw their faces she no doubt in her mind knew that there was nothing in the world she adored more. But just like in fairy tales there was always someone or something who tried to destroy her happiness with them, and that was their abusive father. They loved each other in the beginning, but heartache kicked in drastically when he learned that his brother Rodney died due to a devastating car crash. Over the years he became abusive, then the drinking, and the deceit followed shortly behind. The situation that Rebecca experienced at a young age ate her, and her daughters up on the inside where their feelings were distressed over him. While her mind sat strongly on that one person she dreaded, her two daughters happily splashed the water where it pounded on the floor. Rebecca stared with a smile.

“You’re having fun, aren’t you?” Rebecca said. She placed her finger under Tina’s chin, and looked at Taneka with enough love in her eyes to fill the atmosphere. Rebecca adored them and would do anything to keep them happy.

Rebecca wiped her daughters down and thought back to when she first met Leonard at a North Dakota bar shortly after she moved from her home town of Alabama. They dated for several years and when they felt the moment was right they were married. In 1980, two years after they became one, Taneka and Tina were born. It was a great moment for both of them as they watched their daughters sprout, but shortly after their birth Leonard’s brother was killed. Now their time with each other was destroyed and Leonard who was beyond this world of pain, could never accept it.

Rebecca continued to play with her daughters, while she dwelled on her past, and as fast as lightening a loud slam was herd that made the wins jerk. She was upset and ran into the living room where she stared at Leonard as he glanced around with an angry expression on his face.

“Leonard, what is wrong with you? You scared the twins.” She whispered as he stumped up to her.

“Why isn’t dinner made?” He forcefully grabbed her arms.

“Get your hands off of me. The twins are in the tub.” Rebecca firmly said, and struggled to break free.

“I don’t care! You move when I say move!” She broke free and quickly ran into the bathroom with tears as hard as nails that streamed down her face. What she saw broke her heart more than anything ever could.

“Ahh, oh my God!” As fast as lightening the unthinkable occurred right in front of her eyes. The twins were faced down in the water, while their bodies floated on top. Rebecca grabbed Taneka and laid her on the floor where she started CPR. Her baby forced the water from her throat and started to breathe heavily as she struggled for air. She grabbed Tina as the tears fell down her face in large numbers and saw that she was lifeless. Her little baby would not move an inch and the agony that Rebecca felt as she watched tortured her heart like a flamed bomb fire. She nervously blew in her mouth countless times and when she did Leonard walked to the bathroom door without as much as a care to what laid in front of him. Without any remorse he walked out and headed toward his bedroom, as Rebecca struggled to get her two girls to breathe. After a while of blowing in Tina’s mouth, she finally spit up the water from her throat and a loud cry was heard. The terror flew through her body like a train and she immediately called an ambulance where both the twins were rushed to Memorial General Hospital.

It was late evening and Rebecca brought her girls home and put them straight to bed, who were in great health. Taneka and Tina slept the whole day and mostly half the night, but with the ordeal they encountered Rebecca could not blame them. She sat in her rocking chair by their beds, covered her eyes with her hands and never thought things would get so bad with her daughters, or her destructive husband. She wondered would this be the end for them, or would their lives be a continued line of lost hopes and devastations? The answer was far from her, but she would do whatever she had to to keep them out of harm’s way. Rebecca stared at the girls lovingly with tears in her eyes.

“I almost lost my babies.” She quietly said. The thought of Leonard pounded against her head, and the sweat rushed heavily underneath her chin like a fall that flushed down a mountain. Rebecca kissed both the twins on the forehead and gently touched their hands. She made one vow to herself for the safety for the safety of her daughters.

“I will never let you go through something like this again.” She whispered as she pulled their blankets over their bodies. She slowly lifted her head toward the window and dwelled on a beautiful glare the moon’s reflection as it came toward the twins. After she froze on the sight she pulled the small, wool blanket over her body and fell fast asleep.

It was the dead of night and Rebecca dozed off in the twin’s room prepared for anything that came her way, including Leonard. She slept peacefully without a worry in sight and right then, she awoke with a quick jerk. She thought aobut her husband who always made her life a living hell and wanted him gone before he executed her and the kids. While ways of his destruction pounded against her mind, a loud yell was heard that stretched down the hallway like a sound out of a horror flick.

“Rebecca! Rebecca!” Leonard yelled. She walked toward the twins’ bedroom door, slid down the wall with her arms tightly snuggled across her stomach and answered terrified. She stood up and cracked the door opened.

“Yes, What is it, Leonard?”

“It’s four thirty in the morning! Why aren’t you in bed?!”

“I feel asleep watching the twins.” She opened the door wider to see if he was coming down the dark hall and to her surprise, he wasn’t.

All was silent around the house, and Rebecca watched her daughters as they slept charmingly into never, never land. Exhaustedly, she stretched her arms above her head tormented over the endless bruises that crushed her mind and was at a loss of words due to what happened. She reminisced on what occurred through her lifespan with him and the flashbacks of the beatings slammed her soul that tore it opened by the roots. She contemplated thoroughly on the many visits to the hospital, and within a quick second life turned drastic for her. Leonard forced his way through the twin’s bedroom door, knocked Rebecca down and punched her in the face. The forceful blows intensely struck her in the eyes and mouth dozens of time and left her horribly deformed. The horrific screams from Rebecca woke Taneka and Tina out of their sleep and the heavy rock punches were heard as they repeatedly pulverized Rebecca’s body. The twins instantly cried and without a thought Leonard ran toward their bed in an attempt to stop them. Rebecca lifted her mangled body up that poured out blood and roughly grabbed his leg.

“Oh no you don’t, Leonard! Leave them alone!” Rebecca yelled as the pain thrusted through her body.(Frame.) She knocked him down, which brutally caused an obsessive amount of blood to come from his mouth due to its crash on the bed frame. He turned around as fast as lightening, went toward her and stared as if he wanted to stab her through the chest with a sharp, pointy, knife. Rebecca screamed in agony, while her children watched their mother get abused again for the thousandth time over the years. Leonard grabbed Rebecca by the arm and placed his hand around her neck squeezing it tighter by the minute. It was so distraught her eyes rolled to the back of her head, and her face turned a massive blue.

“Don’t you ever defy me, Rebecca!” When I am in bed, you are with me!” Leonard continuously knocked her head against the floor and caused it to drain out blood where the carpet was soaked with it. Rebecca struggled for air and Taneka and Tina looked on while Rebecca laid on the floor in total distress.

“Daddy stop it!” Taneka yelled. Tina placed her hands over her eyes and was again tortured over the safety of her mother. When Leonard heard his daughter’s voice he immediately released Rebecca. She struggled for air to get into her lungs as he children sat terrified over the condition that Rebecca was once again faced with. Leonard stood up, walked toward the door and froze still as if he could not move. He slowly turned around toward Rebecca as she laid on the floor, beyond recognition, and glanced at his daughters who knew him no longer. He was like a stranger to them, one they quickly wanted out of their lives. Without any remorse, Leonard slowly walked out of the room as if nothing happened. Rebecca stood up as the blood dripped heavily down her face that hit the floor dozens of times, and felt like she was blasted by a destructive tornado. She looked at her hands covered in blood.

“I’ll be there in a few minutes, Leonard.” She pleasantly said as he headed toward his bedroom. With a body that felt mangled, Rebecca struggled to Taneka and Tina as they stared with a distraught look on their faces. She gently laid her terrified daughters down and stayed with them until they stopped crying.

When the twins drifted off to sleep, Rebecca went into the bathroom and nursed her bloody lacerations that smothered her face. The fatal bruises and lashes brought her to her last straw. She walked to her bedroom and slowly opened the door while Leonard slept peacefully. She quietly tiptoed toward the kitchen being careful not to make a sound as the blood streamed down her face onto her disabled body. She entered the kitchen, turned on the stove and filled up the biggest, black iron pot she had with water. When Rebecca saw the bubbles, she carefully grabbed the handles with two brown pot holders, and walked down the hallway very slowly. Amazingly, she made it to her bedroom door and behind it slept the one man who she was destined to end his life. Rebecca pushed the door opened with her elbow and tried with all her might not to let the door squeak. Quietly she walked toward the bed with the hot pot that burned through the holders, ready to rid this maniac from life. She glanced at Leonard for the last time while he slept peacefully, and with all her might she poured the hot, boiling water on his body, threw the pot at him and quickly ran out the room. He awoke after her felt the terrible pain of heat that severely became a part of him, and that he would be saturated with for the rest of his life. Leonard pulled the hot sheets off his body that dismantled it and his skin separated from his legs.

Ahhh! What did you do?” He jumped out of bed and rubbed his body, which eventually severed his skin from his thighs. He watched as it grew more and more blisters, and seconds later the blood flowed. Rebecca ran to the twin’s room where she held both of them tight and heard Leonard scream in pain as she cried over the catastrophe that he was now a part of. Rebecca looked at her daughters as both of them placed their hands over their ears. She whispered that everything would be alright, but in her mind she knew that was nothing buy a broken down dream. Everyone knew Leonard and he held no pity for a single person. Not even his family.

Rebecca laid horrified as he eyes focused on the door and right then she saw Leonard’s shadow as he ran into the bathroom. She held Taneka and Tina tight to her chest, and sobbed for the one whose love turned into nothing but hate. Rebecca released her children and eased her way toward the hallway with wide eyes. She stared down the dark hall toward the left and the right. Leonard was nowhere in sight, not even a cry. In the pinch of a second, he ran from the bathroom in a blast of madness as he rushed toward her way. Rebecca hurried into the living room away from the twins and tried not to let them see the dismantled part of their father‘s body. Full of hatred, Leonard stood head to head with her, and Rebecca stared at him as the wounded part of his body swelled up beyond recognition. He was positioned in the middle of the floor scorched with severe burns on his face, arms and legs, and his skin peeled off his fingers. He looked Rebecca dead in her eyes and she eased her hands away from her face done with the one person who she considered her mate, and who strongly transformed her life into a masquerade of hell.

“This is for you, Leonard! You will never put your hands on me again!” She yelled. Without holding back, Leonard lunged at her and out of fear for her life, Rebecca picked up a wooden chair that sat by the wall, and pounded him over the head. He placed his hand to his head and instantly dropped to the floor where he landed on his side dead. Rebecca eyeballed him, and realized that the death of the man who abused her over the years was now a reality. On the outside she looked on him with wide eyes and quivered all over due to what she committed, and on the inside she could not have felt better. The proof of his death stood right in front of her. The man who abused her for so many years was now a lifeless corpse.

Rebecca leaned over Leonard while her head went slowly to the floor full of hatred for him, and was glad that her dark days were over. She pierced her eyes on the burns that covered his body from the hot water that destroyed his life, and believed that the inevitable happened. His skin hung off his face, and the water was such a fiery blaze that his legs were burnt clear down to the bottom layer of his skin. The sight was awful, and it made Rebecca move her eyes away from the burns that rumbled her stomach like an earthquake. Rebecca stood up, wiped the tears slowly from her face and realized that her time was limited. She quickly ran to the hallway, grabbed a black sheet out the cabinet and ran back into the living room. She kneeled to the floor and rolled his lifeless body over so he could be on his back. She noticed his burnt skin, and looked at his face where his eyes were opened as if they stared straight at her. Rebecca contemplated on what she had to do, and that was to do the unthinkable.

“Alright, Leonard. You are going far away from here.” She said. Without a thought to what she committed, Rebecca covered his body with the sheet. She knew that what she coldheartedly did was wrong, but with two daughters she was not about to give up her life for the death of a deranged maniac.

It was late, and whether she wanted to or not Rebecca had to dispose of Leonard’s body before day break. She was nervous as she walked back and forth across the floor with not a single plan as to how she wanted to do this deceivable act. His death hunted her, and the more the thought pounded her mind, the worse her feelings mangled her. She quickly picked up her phone that sat on the nightstand, and dialed Jill Robertson, the next door neighbor. They met in 1976 and were like sisters from that day on. Rebecca sat nervous as a small voice was heard.

“Hello.” The sleepy voice said.

“Jill, can you take the twins for about three hours please?”

“Are you alright?” Jill asked.

“Yes, I’m fine. I have an emergency that came up and I need to take care of it right away.” She said relentlessly. She shook her head as she stood in front of Leonard’s body angry about the decision she made to call Jill. Rebecca did not want to involve her, but she had no one else she trusted with the twins.

“I will take them for you. Are you bringing them now?” Rebecca walked through the living room with her eyes glued to Leonard’s body as it laid lifeless on the floor.

“I am going to get them ready now.”

“Alright.” Rebecca took a huge breath, got herself under control, and prepared herself for what she had to do. There was no other choice to make when it came to her children’s lives. She quickly ran to Taneka and Tina, with harsh memories of what she committed embedded on her mind.

“Taneka and Tina wake up. You are going over Jill’s house.” She swiftly pulled their red coats out the closet while they sat up in their beds. She rushed toward them.

“Come on, honey. Put this on.” Rebecca placed Taneka’s coat over her shoulders and then Tina’s.

“Mom, I don’t want to go. I want to stay home.” Tina said with a sleepy voice.

“Come on, Tina. We don’t have time to waste, and put your shoes on.” The twins got their shoes from under the bed and slid them on their feet. Rebecca quickly grabbed their hands as they stood up and guided the two toward the front door. She raced through the living room, looked out the corner of the eyes and saw a covered figure that laid in the middle of the floor motionless. Rebecca hoped the twins did not notice the corpse as it laid by the living room table. She raced out the door with her daughters toward her friend’s house where her tragedy was about to become known.

When Rebecca and the twins arrived at Jill’s house, they hurried on the porch of a white anterior, brick house. Rebecca (she) nervously knocked on the door and after seconds a lowered, voiced female answered.

“Who is it?”

“It’s me, Jill. Open the door.” She slowly cracked it opened and what she saw blew her mind away. Rebecca was covered in bruises as if she was run over by a truck.

“Rebecca what is going on? Did you get into a fight with Leonard again?” She shook her head no.

“Please Jill. Just take the twins.” The children ran into the house, laid on the couch, and before the blankets hit their bodies they were out like a light. Rebecca exhaustedly walked into the living room as Jill shut the door behind her, and kissed the twins on the forehead. When she did, Jill noticed what appeared to be blood on her finger. In tears Rebecca headed for the door.

“Wait Rebecca. Turn around and look at me.” She turned in fear, while her eyes filled up with water. “What is going on? You know you can trust me.” Jill said softly. Rebecca approached the dining room table, sat in the white, designed chair and placed her head in her hands. Out of concern, Jill sat beside her and wanted an explanation for what happened.

“Leonard is dead.” Rebecca reluctantly said as she brought her head up.

“No, no, Rebecca. Please tell me you didn’t.” Jill stared at her with disbelief as a huge breath was released from her.

“I got tired of his beatings, so I hit him in the head with a chair and he died from the blow.” Jill knew what every day was about due to what she witnessed in the past. The abuse was a continued thing, but she never believed it would get so far out of control where Rebecca would murder her own husband.

“Is that why you have scars on your face and blood on your fingers?”

“Yes. Day in and day out he was beating me. I couldn’t take it anymore.” Rebecca said as she cried. Jill looked at her best friend and walked toward the middle of the floor with folded arms.

“Where is he know?” Jill softly asked. Rebecca rocked back and forth in her seat and a scared expression haunted her face due to the abusive blow that repeated over and over inside her head.

“His body is in my house. I have to get him out of there.” She said.

Jill quickly ran upstairs toward her oldest child, Mary. She was eighteen years old and was the spinning image of her mother from top to bottom. Jill asked her to watch the twins and without a problem she agreed. They ran downstairs, straight toward the living room where the girls were asleep and stared as their eye lids blinked. In Rebecca’s mind she knew she was doing this for herself, but in her heart she was doing it for her daughters. Jill stared nervously at her.

“Come on, Rebecca. Let’s go.” She said, as she grabbed her hand. They both hurried to Rebecca’s house where the body of Leonard Devaroe laid leaving the twins behind.

It was nearly light outside and the sun was about to rise over the horizon toward a city where one house wife strived hard to hide the crime which she committed. Rebecca brought the car to the front and glanced at a quiet neighborhood for any bystanders, and to her surprise nobody was seen. She and Jill hurried into the house where Rebecca’s life took a dramatic change for the worst and Leonard was right where Rebecca left him. On the floor soaked in a pool of blood with it drenched directly across the sheet. Jill quickly rushed to him, unwrapped the material and saw that he was not moving. She could not believe what laid in front of her eyes. Leonard dead? Jill perceived that they did not have much time before the sun rose.

“Come on Rebecca. We need to get him out of here.” They carefully picked his heavy, lifeless body up that was still in the black sheet and struggled toward the door.

“Oh My God. This man is heavy.” Said Jill as his body move d vividly from left to right

“Come on. We need to get him to the car before it gets too light.” Rebecca said, as her voice struggled to get the words out. They walked out the house into the dark neighborhood and was speechless the whole time, as they glanced around for bystanders. Nobody was seen.

After a hard haul, Rebecca and Jill successfully got Leonard’s body into the car without the presence of one soul. They silently shut the back door, quickly got in and made sure that this was what need to be done. Rebecca pulled off down the dark street that stretched on for miles, with the one man who was no longer alive in the back seat. She wondered would she get away with this horrible crime, and to her it was too dreadful to answer. Jill pondered on what they would do next.

“Where are we going to take him?” Jill asked. Rebecca’s heart paced strongly where control over it was simply impossible, and she was so scared that her thoughts on Leonard pounded against her head like a hammer and nail.

“To Muskeg Lake.” She answered with soft words.

“We’re going to throw in the water?” Jill asked. Rebecca shook her head in agreement, but refused to accept that this tragedy was reality.

“Yes, that is the only place we can take him where he will not be found.” Jill sat speechless, but she felt sorry for her best friend who was terribly traumatized over the years. The best thing was the abuse would never happen again.

Rebecca and Jill arrived at the lake, and parked in a driveway that appeared as if it had been decades since anyone stepped foot on the property. In the middle of the grass sat a shack surrounded by trees that looked as if their days were numbered more than a thousand years, and the atmosphere had a sooty, devoured scent that converted the area into an abandon field. Rebecca and Jill got out the car and glanced around where a glare of light attracted their attention from the city across the water. They heard the sounds of crickets, and bird’s whistles that pounded against their ears, but that was not enough to stop Rebecca from getting her goal accomplished. She ran around to the other side of the car, quietly opened the door and with the help of Jill, she pulled Leonard’s body out. He was so heavy Jill’s back popped as they both slid him across the seat.

“Come on, Jill. Lift him up.” Rebecca quietly said.

“I’m trying, but he is so heavy.” Jill felt as if she was going to drop him on the muddy grass that laid beneath their feet. She was exhausted and her stomach became upset due to the nastiness of the water. Remarkably, they made it to the edge of the lake and stared at the nasty liquid that flowed in front of their eyes, but nasty or not they had no choice but to go through with their plan.

“Put him down gently.” Rebecca said. They laid Leonard in the grass and without another thought they pushed him into the water with a limited splash. Their bodies went numb as they watched his frame fall into the lake which would deteriorate over time.

When Rebecca and Jill disposed of Leonard’s body they ran back in the car and sped down the road as fast as lightening. Things were so quiet they could have heard a pin drop. Their eyes were glued to the street as they both thought about what they just did and that it was a forbidden crime. Jill tried to think of something that would make the morning more pleasant, but with the look on Rebecca’s face she did not know what to say. She wondered if Rebecca felt the same way, but with the blank expression on her face there was no way of telling what bounced around her head. All Jill could do was remain by Rebecca’s side every step of the way and try to forget this horrible day they both encountered.