Women Scorned

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Author: Angela Alsaleem
licked his lips in the back. She took a shuddering breath, threw her car into drive, and sped away. She kept her eyes straight, avoiding looking into her rearview mirror at the diminishing shadow in the distance.
    “We just won’t talk about it, okay, boy?” She shook herself, remembering all that blood. She looked at her hand. “Ugh!” she said, mouth turned down, wiping it on her pants. “Gross.” What had happened back there? Something terrible, she knew. But what?
    Cerberus whimpered again.
    Clearing her throat and mind, an attempt at formally calming herself, she said, “Okay, gotta get back on track. I guess it’s back to hospitals for us, buddy.”
    No longer in the mood to get a fresh body, but needing something to distract her from what she had just found, she drove to the same hospital she’d visited earlier. Her disguise would keep security from spotting her right away.
    “You wait in the car. I’ll pop the trunk, then go in. Keep it running, okay boy?” She laughed, a high, pinched sound like a child trying to convince herself that the thump she heard from under her bed was just the heater coming on and not a monster with claws that would grab her ankle as soon as she dangled her leg over the side.
    In her flannel jacket, with her bushy eyebrows and beard, she sauntered through the front doors, swaggering a bit with a be-bop in her step. She moved around like she belonged there. Soon, without any questions, she found herself inside the morgue looking at charts, running her fingers over the names listed. When she came across a Jane Doe, she set the file down and opened the cooler that contained her.
    Inside, Libitina found a naked woman. Her relaxed legs rested shoulder width apart revealing a gaping wound in her genitals. Several twin crescent shaped wounds adorned her breasts, like two new moons facing each other, the ragged skin a purplish color in the center. Libitina knew the sucking marks associated with bite wounds when she saw them.
    “What happened to you?” Libitina ran a finger down the woman’s cold cheek. “You poor thing.” She looked at the corpse’s closed eyes as she ran her fingers through her black hair, smoothing out some of the tangles. “There you go,” she said. “You’re coming home with me. We’ll find out what happened to you together, okay? You can tell me your story. I’m a great listener.” She didn’t know why but she suddenly felt a strong connection with this dead girl. The need to help her, to find out what happened to her—this poor Jane Doe—pulsed in her mind, snapping into an obsession.
    She grabbed a gurney from the hallway and wheeled it up to the open cold-cupboard. The body was heavy, but she managed to lift it. When she had Jane Doe in her arms, cradled like a large baby, Libitina pushed her nose into her hair and breathed in the scent of death. “You must not have been dead for long,” she whispered and then shrugged.
    Once her new educational opportunity rested on the table, she covered her with a sheet and wheeled her outside, pulling a white lab coat on over her flannel jacket.
    She guided the body through several passages and found a door in front of a large sleeping nurse near the ambulance entrance. No patients. One of the call buttons next to the large woman flashed and buzzed but the soft noise was inaudible over the snores.
    Libitina snickered under her breath at her good fortune and sped toward the exit, never looking back. Once outside, she glanced around to assure herself of her privacy then pushed the body to the front of the hospital where she was parked. The corpse’s head moved from side to side a bit as if protesting its removal from the morgue.
    “I can’t believe how easy this was,” she said as she got to her car. The motor hummed in the dark as she opened the trunk and placed the body inside, still wrapped in the sheet. It shouldn’t have been this easy. She knew that. But she didn’t question her luck. Just
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