The Hidden Bodies of Sun Valley

Chapter Fifteen

Grant was full of towering rage once he took the life of Giovanna and Iris.

Iris was so weak, she hardly even fought back besides her dragging her feet on the ground. Giovanna however, she was ruthless. The fact that she stuck fishing pliers in Grant's back and practically scratched his eyes out. Someone deserves to be disciplined for her actions — Aurora.

She is the main reason that Grant's hands became bloody in the first place. This is all her fault. Aurora should be beckoning on her knees for his attention by now. What is stopping her? Her lowlife boyfriend, Nick?

Nick is nothing against Grant. He became unconscious the second the kayak paddle hit his head, what a weakling.

As Nick's log cabin is separated from other homes nearby, Grant used this to his advantage. There were no streetlights on the road leading up to the house and the only plausible way they can get help is across the lake. Or, they could take their chances with the four slashed tires and drive thirty minutes into the city to get assistance.

When Grant murdered Leo, he took his phone, and his truck. He texted Giovanna twice from his number on the way up, so nothing seemed out of sorts. They weren't expecting anything unordinary, that's how they didn't see what hit them.

Grant often takes off in the direction of where he parked Leo's truck in the woods. It is about a ten minute walk from the Runlett residence. There, he was able to spy on everyone using his portable device.

He's able to do this because he planted hidden cameras.

He installed a GPS tracker in Aurora's Ford Explorer the night of the New Haven carnival. Nick and Leo took her car to come up to his house in Rhode Island the day before, getting everything set up. Grant followed the two boys, able to get in through the back door once they departed.

There, Grant set up motion detectors and camcorders all throughout the home.

Before he walked back in the direction of Leo's truck, Grant decided to take a swim.

He figured the water would soften the wound on his back, making it easy for the pliers to come out.

Fuck Giovanna for that, he thought. Every time she crossed his mind, he felt his face get hot making him practically convulsed in the water.

He looked down at his body as he was floating. He saw the blood from his two recent murders slowly start to vanish. Grant decided to get out of the water to look at his reflection, feeling relieved that his back pain was finally at ease.

As Grant stared into his reflection, his face looked like it just came out of the movie, The Shining.

Grant couldn't help but turn his head clockwise. He loved how red covered him. He took his hand, drawing a line through his face, getting the red pigment all over his fingers. Grant put his hand in his mouth as the metallic flavor filled the back of his throat.

He loved the taste.

Grant began his ten minute descent back towards Leo's truck, feeling on top of the world. For the first time in a long time, Grant was ecstatic.

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Ophelia finally came to terms with Iris's death. She took the blanket out of Bo's hand, and laid it across Iris's body.

"You taught me how to love, but not how to stop," Opheila spoke tenderly. "You took half of my heart with you. I will spend the rest of forever with a hole inside my chest that can never be filled."

Aurora, Quincey, Nick, and Bo watched as Opheila said her final goodbyes.

Aurora was heartbroken. She couldn't believe Grant could go this far to hurt her friends. The more she thought about it, the angrier she became. With Leo, Giovanna, and Iris now gone, she was terrified. Grant needs to suffer deeply for the cause he's done.