Revenge in her Eyes
Notice: Holds strong language and has mature content
2013
Neomi stands shaking, reflecting on her life atop the cliff looking out towards the ocean
looking down at the sea crashing on the rocks below she feels she has nothing left to lose,
she has lost everything. Every man she had known or loved has used, hurt or abandoned
her, even her father; How was she to fix everything.
2015
Amber Kennedy is a successful P.I; she owned her own agency and had a bachelor’s
degree she had worked as liaison officer in in the police force and worked her way through
the ranks; eventually leaving the police force to open her own investigation bureau, she’s
empathic and thrives on form, pattens and designs; she pays close attention to detail such
as sight, sound and textures, a realistic body orientated person, solving practical eye and
hand gestures; She loves all aspects of her job from the surveillance to delving in to finding
facts
Recently she had been asked to investigate the mystery of Neomi Bensons disappearance,
her body had never been found, she had simply vanished, Neomi’s Aunt; Girty had wanted
to know what had happened to her beloved niece nobody seemed to know, the police were
at a standstill, there was no clues, no body.
Trying to find out what happened to this young woman was just a mystery from start to finish,
unfortunately the investigation team had to close the case and Neomi was put with all the
other cold cases
“I need to find out what happened to my niece”
“I will need to know a little about her”
“What do you want to know?”
“Her Life, her pattens anything”
“Neomi is…, was my brother’s daughter, he was never interested in her, her mother had died
whilst she was incredibly young, and he would send her off to boarding school out of the
way, she was a bright girl, but very innocent, and was hurt very easily, she had numerus
boyfriends, all turned out to be no good, but the last one hurt her more than the rest and
that’s when she vanished”
“So, what did the police find”
“They found a lady that had seen Neomi on the cliffside as she passed with her dog but
when the lady came back a few minuets’ later Neomi wasn’t there, the women said she
didn’t think anything of it, but when it came on the television about her disappearance she
went to the police and told them what she had seen that day she told them about her
standing very close to the edge but when she came back with her dog Neomi hadn’t
passed her and she was nowhere to be seen, she remembered it had worried her and didn’t
shout in case she had startled her.
“Ok, I’ll take your case on, and see what I can find out”
“I have been told you are the absolute best please find my niece”
Thank you, it will cost you though”
“The money isn’t an issue”
“I charge £20 by the hour”
“Find out what happen to my niece”
“Okay….”
The first day of her investigation
Amber went to the police station to talk to her detective friend Karl; Karl had been on that
case all the way through and told Amber it was like looking for a needle in a haystack
“It’s like she never existed”
“There has to be something to find, she can’t just vanish”
“Well, she has, there was no body, and you know no body, no evidence of foul play”
“Her aunt has hired me to look into her disappearance”
“But there’s nothing to go on”
“I’m just going do a little digging see what I come up with”
“Good luck”
“If I don’t find anything ill advise her to stop looking”
Amber got back to Girty and told her she needed to know more about Neomi she needed
names, places and her likes and dislikes, Girty gave her a photo and told her she always like
the mountain and the ocean and gave her the name of her boyfriends.
Amber travelled to the boarding school in Castle hill that Neomi had spent several dreadful
years and began building a picture of Neomi, then she found the names of few of her past
boyfriends when she found to Brian Wallis in Westerfield. she had a lengthy conversation
with him, he told her they had dated Neomi, but she hated all after us after what happened
“What happened?”
I don’t want to talk about it, you need to talk to Dwane”
“Is that Dwane Denvir”
“Yeah, or better still Darrall Sharp, now he was a piece of shit, Dwane can tell you more
about that scum bag”
“Thank you, you’ve been most helpful”
“Darrall is the reason she jumped of that cliff top”
“There is no evidence she jumped anywhere, why would you say she jumped”
“I mean if that’s what happened”
“You don’t happen know where Dwane lives do you?”
“Last I heard he was in Royston but who knows, sorry I haven’t bothered with any of them for
years, not since that day
“What day?”
“Hmmm, that day, hmmm I don’t want to say anymore”
Amber knew something wasn’t right and Brian knew more than he was letting on something
dreadful happened to Noemi involving these four men and Amber was going to find out,
there was more to this story than meets the eye.
The following day she made her way to Royston, but she came up with a dead end, she did
however find out he had moved to Wilby, and soon made her way to Wilby in the hope she
could find and speak to Dwane Denvir another that had cheated on her there was a patten
forming, she really wanted to find Darrall Sharp her last boyfriend unfortunately she had
come to a complete and utter stand still and made her way back to her office,
Bingo, she found Dwane’s place of work she made her way to his office building “Could I see
Mr Dwane Denvir?”
“Have you an appointment?”
“No…”
“I’m sorry Mr Denvir is very busy”
“It’s important I speak to him”
“You’ll have to make an appointment”
“Fine…”
Just then Dwane pops his head out of his office “Sara”
“Coming Mr Denvir”
Amber steps in front of Sara “Mr Denvir?”
“Yes…”
Amber proceeds to tell him who she was and why she was there to see him, Dwane went a
shade of grey
“Mr Denvir”
“I’ve haven’t heard that name for years” he wanted her to leave and asks her not to come
back to his place of work again; she told him she would keep coming until he tells her what
she wanted to know.
He reluctantly gave in and told her he would meet her over at the café in an hour, when
Dwane finally arrived, he was sweating and shaky; Amber found this very odd considering
she only wanted information on Darrel’s whereabouts
“I don’t know anything”
“Nothing? it’s funny Brain told me you know Darrall well”
“Darrall, he’s not a nice person you don’t want to see him”
“I do….”
“You really don’t”
“I do and you are going to tell me what I want to know”
“I think he’s in Beaulieu, but I don’t know for sure”
“Ok; thank you”
“That part of my life is over I don’t want to be reminded, we were incredibly young and
stupid”
“It was only Two years ago”
“I want to forget; Neomi didn’t deserve what Darrall did or any of us did for that matter”
“What was it you all did?”
Dwane refused to say another word, but it seemed that Darrall was in the instigator, Amber
made her way back home.
That evening she was studying what she had discovered so far when the was a news flash a
man body had been found with a single puncture mark to the main artery of the neck the
man in question hadn’t been named yet, but this was the 4th body in weeks, same M.O. a
single puncture to the neck it appeared someone had a grudge to grind; all these men had
one thing in common they had all been cruel and abusive in one way or another.
There was always a rose with no petals just the thorns and note with attached saying.
This is what happens when your cruel
Amber sat back and pondered for a moment; the coming days the 4th victim had been
named Brian Wallis the same Brian Wallis that Amber had spoken to days earlier.
Two week later another man murdered with a puncture make to the neck. Amber set off back
to Castle Hill to find out what she could on Brian, she told the police that she had only spoke
to him a few days ago, then made her way to Westerfield to speak to his wife she found a
hotel for the night as she entered, a young woman past her the only reason, she noticed her
because she was very sophisticated, and the beautiful smile they gave her, she figured she
was a model or something.
Then next day she went to see the and spoke to Brain’s wife “I’m sorry for your loss Wallis”
“Thank you”
“Can you think why anyone would want to hurt your husband? did your husband have any
enemies”
“No; he was loving and kind”
“Did he ever mention a Neomi Benson?”
“Yes, she was at his boarding school, she committed suicide, he was terribly upset, what has
she got to do with this?”
“Probably nothing, thank you for your time, and again I’m so sorry”
She then made her way to see Jack Melling; the leading detective in this case of the 5th man
again he was abusive and cruel, she spoke to him for about an hour then she made her way
to Suffolk, what this had to do with Neomi, she wasn’t sure, maybe it was the fact that Brian
Wallis was one of the victims felt odd to Amber.
When she got to Suffolk, she called Paul Menders another boyfriend of Neomi’s, on her way
to meet up with him she spotted the Sophisticated lady she had seen the day before, she
was sat at the café where Amber was meeting Paul Menders, the lady appeared to be
peering over her sunglasses at her, was this woman watching her?
She spoke with Paul Menders for an hour Amber asked him why he and Neomi ended their
relationship
“She accused me of cheating”
“Was you?”
“Come on we were young; I played the field like plenty of young men”
“So, you did?”
“I fucked anything and everything back then”
Paul chuckled and tells Amber she was too clingy he wanted fun that was it, Amber looks at
him and tells him it seems that every man she was with cheated on her, Paul shrugs his
shoulders and laughs “So what”
“Hmm… “
“Look we were all out for what we could get; Ya-know what I mean, Darrall was the worse
one, he hurt her and humiliated her, he knew she was besotted with him, and he used her,
he was downright cruel”
“How?”
“He made a tape of her”
“A… sex tape?”
“Yeah, they were having sex, but what she didn’t know he’d invited Dwane, Brain and myself
to watch, but he was taping it, she was mortified when she realised all this was going on,
then he passed it round Campus then, he was scum. I mean scum”
“Ohhhh, I see”
“Dwane told him he was out of order, when Dwane had seen her face, he wanted no part
and left “
“Hmmm”
“I heard she took her life soon after, that was about two years ago now” he asked her why
she wanted to know all this
“Her aunt wants to know what happened to her”
“I think the old girl is wasting her time and her money”
“Well, she wants me to find out”
“Hey… you get paid for a wild goose chase, right?”
Amber didn’t care for Paul or any of the men Neomi dated, and Darrall Sharp sounded a real
piece of work.
After Paul Menders left, she looked over at the table that the sophisticated lady was at the
lady looked over at Amber smiled and walked away, Amber drives back to Bawdsey, the
next day she called Girty to tell her she has drawn a blank and she was just wasting her
money.
“No, please Miss Kennedy”
“Mrs Mills I don’t want to take your money for nothing you are paying me daily it not cheap”
“It doesn’t matter how much; the money isn’t an issue I told you this”
“Ok ill look a little longer”
“If she dead I need to know, I’m ill, I’m dying, and she is my only living relative”
Amber felt sad for Girty, it seems she couldn’t rest until she knew if her niece was alive or
dead Girty was the only family Neomi had that cared so Amber wanted to give it one last try
Meanwhile the news reported there had been another murder, the following week the was
yet another killing this time it was Paul Manders. Brain Wallis and now Paul Manders, this
was two much of a coincidence Amber thought
2016
At the beginning of the new year Amber got a good lead on Darrall Sharp, she had found
him in Wolverstone, she made her way over to see him she made a stop at Chelmondistion
first where there had been yet another killing same M.O as before note attached to a thorn
rose stem.
This is what happens when you cruel
And who should be there but the sophisticated lady that she saw in Westerfield and Suffolk
she was sat at the bar; Amber approached the woman “Hello”
“Hello”
“I’ve seen you in the same place as me twice now”
“Hmm….well that some coincidence isn’t it”
“Are you a reporter?”
“No, I help women rebuild their lives, I work in a women refuge
“Oh, I see, Oh, Pardon me, I’m Amber Kennedy”
“Nice to meet you Amber, Kestley Montrose” as she holds her hand out Amber shakes her
hand and tell her it genuinely nice to meet her too.
Kestley asked Amber to join her for dinner and Amber was delighted and excepted they
talked for hours Amber had told Kestley what she did and what a lonely profession it was as
she was always on the move, Traveling from town to town,
“Yes, I can see why it would be hard to have relationships that lasted when you are always
traveling around the country”
“It nice to sit and have a conversation and eat with someone, so thank you for a lovely
evening”
“You are welcome we will have to do it again”
“Yes, that would be nice”
As the weeks pasted there had been two more murders and Amber and Kestley had become
friends, what did puzzle Amber was the fact that Kestley seemed to be around everywhere
she was and one evening amber asked her where it was, she was based
“Dunwich, at the K.W.S”
“Your based at Keeping women safe centre”
“Yes… “
“That’s got to be rewarding work, helping all those ladies?”
Kestley nods and smiles “Are you free for dinner”
“No….. I can’t… I’ve got a lead so I’m traveling to Wolverstone”
“Ohhh, right, can I ask you what you are investigating”
“Well, I’m investigating a disappearance that happened two years ago in Rawdley, but I can’t
say too much about it really client confidentiality and all that”
“No, no, I understand, but I think I heard the story, it was all over the news
“Yes, but I really can’t say anymore”
“I understand”
Amber tells Kestley it was a lovely evening and thanked her once again then sets off to
Wolverstone.
Wolverstone
Amber eventually arrives at Wolverstone and checks in at her hotel has dinner and couple of
drinks then retires to bed.
Meanwhile Darrall Sharp was in a club in town being his obnoxious womanising self,
because he was a good-looking man, he thought he was god’s gift, he scanned the room
and a beautiful woman with pink hair caught his eye he swaggers over to the bar and he
begins his speel.
“Well, hello beautiful?”
The woman smiles sexily at him
“So, tell me what a hot lady like you is doing here on her own?”
“Waiting for you”
Darrall couldn’t believe his luck this wasn’t going to taking much work at all “What’s your
name?”
“Destiny”
“Destiny?”
“Yes, Your Destiny”
“What would you like to drink my Destiny”
“Champagne”
“Champagne expensive taste”
“I’m worth every penny baby”
“I can’t wait”
“You haven’t told me your name handsome”
“Ohhh, I’m Jim”
She had him eating out of her hand she even persuaded him to buy a single red rose,
something he never did with any of his conquests, he was eager to get out of the club; he
wanted to get this lady alone “Let’s get out of here” he suggested, leaving to go somewhere
a little less crowded, Destiny agreed and Darrall was about to flag a cab when she told him
she wanted to go to the woodland area at the other end of the park
“Ohhhhh, I see”
“Yeah, I like that risk of being caught”
Darrall was getting a hard-on just thinking about taking this woman in the woodland, he knew
that the woodland was deserted the only time anyone went to the woodland was to walk their
dog or dump rubbish, but didn’t want to tell her that he couldn’t risk getting seen “I’m up for
some excitement”
“Good” she said licking her lips “Because what I’m going to do to you”
“Hhm baby”
As they approached the woodland and Darrall was all over her “Take you clothes off” she
says placing her hand on the fast-growing bulge in his trousers
“My clothes?”
“Yes….”
Darrall took his jacket off, but Destiny wasn’t waiting for him to take each item off, moving
closer to him she rips his shirt open
“Whoa, take it easy babe”
“Nah, let’s get you naked, I want you naked”
“What about you”
“All in good time”
She takes some handcuffs out of her bag and told him she wanted him at her mercy. Darrall
thought this girl was so kinky and agreed as she kissed him and lowered her month down his
body, he groaned; the more she teased, the more he moaned and groaned
“Uncuff me baby”
“No, no baby and bit his nipples hard, she drew blood, it hurt, and he jumped, “Ouch Come
on I can’t have marks on me my wife will see them”
“Not my problem” as she take a small pen knife out and smiled at him Darrall began to get
nervous and demanded her to uncuff him; she began to press the blade against his skin he
reeled in pain “Stop, stop please” he begged; as he tried to move away; she tortured him for
hours, then when she finally stopped she took a syringe out of her bag, Darrall was scared,
she was not playing any more. “Come-on babe that’s enough now”
“I don’t think it is””
“Stop it, it’s not fuckin funny now you fuckin freaky bitch”
“I thought you liked playing games Darrall”
“Darrall, do I know you?”
“Ohhhh yes, you know me look into my eyes, do you remember? think?” as she pokes his
head with her finger
“Please….” he whimpered “I’m sorry so sorry, we were just kids”
“Maybe I should get your friends to watch, or better still, shall I tape it”
Darrall couldn’t breathe he had started to hyperventilate he was shaking, and he wet his
himself
“Opps, you had an accident”
“Please….”
“Please… you, fuckin arsehole, you ruined my life and now you will fuckin pay; look at you,
not so fucking big now are you”
Darrall shakes his head
He was about to cry for help, however she gagged him with one of his own socks once he
opened his mouth to cry out “No you don’t” then laughed callously before she went onto
using the syringe, pushing it into the main artery, looking at him emotionlessly as its contents
emptied; Darrall shock his head franticly he began to cry, she looked deep into his eyes, she
could see the fear in his eyes and the tears running down his face; he was begging her with
his eyes to stop, but she was vengeful, so hateful she wanted him to suffer and didn’t feel
anything, then she smiles at him again and once the contents had been into his neck she
then cleaned any potential traces from him that could lead back to her; then left her usual
note and with the thorn rose that he had bought her and placed it in his hand then casually
walked away, she hadn’t realised he wasn’t dead.
Early that morning a dog walker found him barely alive and called for the ambulance and
police how this man was still alive was a Miracle, as paramedic placed him in the
ambulance, he murmured what they thought was Neomi, but he died in the ambulance on
the way to the hospital.
The police questioned the bar staff at the club one of the girls had said he was talking to
several girls that night but left with a lady with pink hair, they asked for the CCTV, but she
was cleaver; she had her back to the camera at all time, all they had to go on was a woman
with pink hair, possibly a wig and the assumption that she was called Neomi, no other leads
on whoever this was, covered all angles and covered their tracks well, no DNA, no weapon;
no nothing.
When Amber sat eating her breakfast there was an elderly couple at the next table saying
how shocking this murder was
“Excuse me did you say murder”
“Yes, last night a young man was murdered”
“Who?”
“Hmmm; not sure”
The lady’s husband interrupted “I heard someone mention the name Darrall”
Amber was speechless for a moment “Are you alright Miss?”
“Yes, I’m fine thank you” she grabbed her jacket and headed to the crime scene, the police
were all over the scene with sniffer dogs looking for anything that could help with their
investigation, Amber spoke to the officer in charge; she told him she was here to see him
today, she explained who she was and why she was there
“He mumbled the name Neomi, does that mean anything to you?”
“Neomi disappeared two years ago that’s what I’m investigating, did he say anything else?”
“No, he died shortly after, I’m shocked he was still alive considering what was pumped into
him system”
Amber thought Neomi could still be alive and committing all these murders but how has she
kept hidden for the past two years, why had no one noticed her she must have changed her
appearance somehow.
The day of Darrall funeral Amber went along to pay her respects, she noticed that Darrall’s
widow didn’t seem to be as upset as she should be, Amber went over to her and asked if
she could visit her when she was up to it, to ask her a few questions
“You can ask me now”
“I don’t want to bother you today of all days”
“Why? he was a bastard”
“I… umm” Amber wasn’t sure how to respond to that
“He was a cheat and he hit me; beat me, humiliated me, whoever did this, did me a favour,
he was downright cruel, and everyone knew it”
“I see, I’m so sorry”
“My life begins anew now if ever I find the woman who did this, I’ll shake her hand”
Amber drove home, still nothing to tell Girty; she hadn’t found anything that she wanted to
tell Girty, she didn’t want to tell her she thought Neomi was still alive and committing all
these murder that would just break Girty heart.
Girty begged her to keep looking, but Amber didn’t want to take any more money from her
Girty asked Amber to be her trustee for her will and if Neomi ever came back Amber could
sign over the money
“I can’t do that”
“You can”
“You don’t know me”
“I trust you”
“But still, I….”
“Please I haven’t got much longer left as you can see, I’m bed ridden now”
“But what if she never come back, what if she died that day”
“She’s not dead I feel it, Please Amber”
“Alright”
Girty told Amber she would have her lawyer set it all up and she would be in total control not
long after Girty passed peacefully in her sleep she had arranged everything Amber was the
only one at Girty’s funeral or so she thought but there hiding was Kestley when amber asked
her if she knew Girty, Kestley told amber she had been at her friends funeral and had seen
her and thought she would come over. Amber had this feeling in the pit of her stomach that
Kestley wasn’t who she said she was and delved into her past, but she found nothing on
Kestley Montrose not even at the K.W.S centre, she had the strangest feeling that Kestley
Montrose was Neomi Benson, but she looked nothing like her picture that Girty had given
Amber though.
As the week passed the killings seemed to have stopped for the moment and Amber was
active on another case when she spotted Kestley with a man having dinner, when Kestley
went to the ladies’ powder room Amber followed
“Hi Neomi”
Kestley turn to Amber “Sorry did you just call me Neomi”
“Yes, I did”
“Why?”
“Because that’s who you are, isn’t it”?
“I think you have the wrong woman”
“I don’t think I have,”
“Yes, you have”
“Look Neomi, I totally understand why you want to be some else, after what I have learnt
about Brain Wallis, Dwane Denvir, Paul Manders and Darrall Sharp, I would want to hide
and change my name, they must have humiliated you and made your life a living hell”
“Have you any proof that I’m Neomi Benson”
Amber didn’t have any proof of anything, she was just looking for Kestley’s reaction but there
was nothing, Kestley was clever, if she was Neomi Benson, she didn’t bat an eyelid, the only
flicker of her eyes was when Amber mentioned Girty, Kestley turned away and left with her
date and Amber never saw Kestley Montrose again, or did she?
The moral of this story is you should treat people how you want to be treated and think about
the effect your actions may have on that person
THE END
Written by Deborah Langley
All characters are made up, a story of fiction, a product of the authors
imagination.
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