Chapter Two
Joy Schwabach was a confused woman. I could have sympathized with her, but I didn’t. Instead I seduced her. It had taken a long time, over a year, but I had gotten her to the point where it was time to force her to make a decision.
Was it just random coincidence that she was married to pastor of one of the local churches or was it the celestial forces that controlled the world making it so?
I walked briskly from the Drysdale house down to Joy’s. Since this was now suburbia there was no one around. No cars (all at work). No kids (all at school). Nothing moving.
Almost nothing.
It was less than a quarter of a mile and it might as well have been Desolation Alley. The roads were all curved and it was impossible to see from one house to the next, but that didn’t matter because
