Ding Dong!! Is She Dead? by Alathia Morgan Read Free Book Online Page A

paused, sitting up straight in the chair.
    He looked at the length of her bruised body, taking in the bandages on her head and the IV. running to her arm.
    “If you had just woken me up then none of this would have happened. How could you turn me in to the police? Men that I work with handcuffed me and put me in a cell.”
    “This is wrong, Megan. I will have to discipline you better in the future. Sally needs a mother that knows how to obey instructions and not piss off the man of the house. I have trained you for the last 10 years and yet this is the way you repay me. Oh, Megan, I had such high hopes for you.” Mike spoke with increasing venom, his true feelings overshadowing any concern he might have had.
    Megan listened in growing horror. What did he mean to obey him more than she already did? She wasn’t his slave. She hadn’t asked to be beaten. It wasn’t her fault he had fallen asleep in the truck.
    On the other hand, he had spent so much time training her to be the wife and mother that he needed her to be to do his job properly. She should have been watching for him to come home. She had known that he would be mad when she had finally gone to sleep about 4 am.
    She alerted the nurse by pressing the call button, feeling safe.
    “Mike, I am so sorry about this, I didn’t mean for it to go this far. Can you ever forgive me?”
    Megan really wanted his forgiveness since she could tell he hadn’t really meant to hurt her. She was convinced she had let him down and caused his outburst. It had been her fault for trying to run from her punishment, she could have waited to take the beatings so they wouldn’t have been as bad.
    Mike had jumped up when Megan started speaking and came to stand by the bed.
    “Megan, I can’t forgive you until you have taken back what you’ve told them. Everything that you tell others about me will only make matters worse. We can tell them that you were just confused and it was someone else that came in our house.”
    “All those lies that woman, Allie, has been filling your head with, they are just not true. You can come home and my fellow officers will help me locate this scum that did this to my wife. No, one should be allowed to punish you except for me.”
    Mike took her bandaged arm and instead of being gentle, he grabbed hold of her wrist bringing her arm up into the light from the bathroom.
    “What have you done Megan? You told me that you were sorry, but you have pressed the call button that will bring the nurse in here.”
    Watching the rage build, Megan realized that no matter what she said or did this man would never take her back without seriously making her pay the price for coming to the hospital.
    Wondering where the nurse could be, Megan began to worry that they wouldn’t reach her.
    Mike decided to go ahead and kill her. Moving his hand from her wrist to her throat, he smiled gloatingly.
    “I knew that this apology was too good to be true coming from such a lying bitch as you. I cut the cords on the buttons before you woke up.”
    “There won’t be any help coming to rescue you. They are all in the break room having a short naptime. I put a small amount of powder into their tea and on their pizza so that when they went to take a break it would knock them out for a time so that we could have a real heart to heart talk.” Mike smiled as Megan eyes widened in terror.
    “I knew that you were up to no good. Did you know that they put me in a cell block with other criminals? Guys that I have hunted and worked hours on the cases that put them in jail and brought them to justice. Megan, Megan, did you really think that you would be safe from me?”
    His hand let up slightly from around her neck, allowing her to take a deep breath. Seeing that she wasn’t going to answer him, he squeezed harder putting the other hand around her neck totally encompassing her throat. He continued squeezing until he heard sounds out in the hall and realized that someone had stumbled upon