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Rachel - Ellen Elizabeth Dudley
Rachel.
By
Ellen Elizabeth Dudley.
Copyright © 2009 Ellen E. Dudley.
Edited and proof-read by Thomas J. Edison.
Cover design copyright © 2009 by G. W. Steen.
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ISBN: 978-3-96931-075-5
Verlag GD Publishing Ltd. & Co KG, Berlin
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Table of Contents
Prologue.
Chapter One.
Chapter Two.
Chapter Three.
Chapter Four.
Chapter Five.
Chapter Six.
Chapter Seven.
Chapter Eight.
Dream Sequence.
Excerpt
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Prologue.
Burbank, Los Angeles. 1989.
A red-haired five-year-old girl wearing a summer dress walks along the path by a fast-moving stream flowing through a wooded glade. She stops, gazes into the distance. Her mouth crinkles as she smiles, waves. Her visage changes to one of incomprehension, her brow creases, her mouth falls open. She stands there, she trembles, hyperventilating, and then her eyes roll back as she falls forward onto the gravel path.
Chapter One.
New York 2019.
Thirty-five year-old Rachel Jones, supply chain technician at the St James Clinic, picked up the internal phone from the desk in her office. Supply office, Rachel Jones speaking.
She listened to the voice on the other end of the line, I’ll be right there,
she said.
She looked at her watch, ten minutes to finishing time. She’d completed her tasks for the day, her computer already shut down. As she rose from her chair she wondered what Jeff Stanton, head of security wanted, he’d asked her to come to the locker room immediately. She picked up her satchel, hurrying out the office.
She entered the large room, saw them standing by her open locker. Head Nurse Madigan, a woman even a saint would love to hate, was there as well as her superior, Mrs Rowan, a person she owed favors to after she landed her this job.
Jeff, sixty-two, black, balding gray, was present with another guard, Paul Marx, his deputy, around her age; tall, shaven-headed, macho-type, wearing heavily-tinted glasses, the type women look at once and blank their minds.
She stopped before them, defiant, expecting something bad, as the air was sort of tainted.
Jeff pointed to her open locker, finger shaking like he’s sorry he asked. Mrs Jones, can you explain this, please?
She looked inside her locker; on the shelf were a number of medication phials. She shook her head, she wasn’t surprised, didn’t show it. No, I can’t,
she said, waiting for the next round.
He said, Nurse Madigan found your locker partly open, she spotted these six bottles, called me immediately.
The thought came to mind, ‘No prizes for guessing who put ‘em there.’ She glared at Madigan, receiving a smirk in response. Nosey bitch, she’d found her snooping around her office, examining her son’s photo taken three years ago, told her to get her ass out pronto.
Marx stepped forward, eager, eyes glinting behind the shades, digital camera in hand, took several photos of her locker, his gait a swagger.
Jeff held out a plastic bag while Marx, wearing surgical gloves, removed the tiny glass bottles, placing them inside.
Jeff turned to Rachel. Doctor Siemens would like to see you in his office, now.
Poor guy, he was the sort who couldn’t hide his feelings so he turned his face away from her.
She removed her gray overall, brushed past Marx, wishing he’d been stood on the edge of a precipice.
He regarded her, stone-faced.
She hung it up, took out her woolen jacket pulling it on while looking at Mrs Rowan, the kind lady who had given her the job. She stood there, her eyes glistening, staring straight ahead, past Rachel.
She pulled on her jacket, left them to it.
*
As Rachel Jones walked into his office on the top floor of the St James clinic, the first things Doctor Eric Siemens noticed were her scuffed outdoor-shoes, her faded patched-at-the-knee jeans. Her T-shirt must have been washed a thousand times; her home-made, gray woolen jacket was missing a button too. Her figure had held its beauty after child-birth; her flaming red hair had a healthy sheen to it too. Her lips were full, a natural pink, devoid of lipstick. In fact she wore no makeup at all. He’d already decided she didn’t need it.
Now he had to tell her, her job was in jeopardy, though he wasn’t sure if he hadn’t been lied to by her superior, Nurse Madigan, always sucking up to him. As a simple plot formed in his mind he came to a decision. He turned away from her as he rose up, not before catching a glimpse of her emerald eyes as she glared in his direction.
Come in, please. Take a seat. I’ll just draw the blinds,
he said smiling.
She watched him rise from his chair. His buttocks, his thigh muscles, clearly accentuated beneath his close-fitting, expensive-looking white slacks as he leaned over a set of drawers to let down the window blinds behind him, cutting out the rays from the setting sun. She knew he came from a rich family, she guessed the cost of those slacks would pay her twelve-year-old son’s medical bills for the whole year. Her son was the victim