The Secret Field

Planting The Seed

She knew.

She always knew it would lead to this moment. She has endured ten years of stalking and her local police could never gather enough evidence to arrest him. She never pictured herself as a violent person but no other solution will bring her peace and safety. At least that's what she told herself as she placed the shovel in her trunk.

Destiny Grover was an attractive and successful writer who lived remotely in the rural countryside and always kept to herself. After her divorce she found comfort in her solitude and began to enjoy the writing community online. Until that fateful day that Destiny began conversing to him on a social media platform.

It did not stop on one social platform. He began to find every profile Destiny had and send her messages several times a day. She used to respond to him to be courteous and misunderstood his intentions as being friendly and just enthusiastic. She was a bestselling author and figured he was just reacting as an excited fan.
But the messages began to change and become dark and obsessed.

The online stalking started to transform to phone calls ranging from heavy breathing to threats of rape and killing her. Blocked numbers that the police were never able to trace. The phone calls than became dark and threatening letters in the mail. He would cut parts of magazines to form the letters and glue crushed dead flowers on to the stationary. Destiny kept each one of them in a folder in her office.

It was when she began to feel followed that she knew it was a matter of life or death. She saw him in the woods near her cabin on more than one occasion. Peering from between the trees and looking through the windows at her. He would make eye contact with her for long enough to let her know he was there and watching her every move. He would than walk away ever so slowly like he felt no fear of being caught or arrested for it.

She endured it for years and had filed over fifteen reports with her local police and his. They never had enough proof to pursue an arrest. That's when she knew she had to protect herself and her daughter. She had to defend what was hers which is her dignity and respect of privacy and space. It was her right to live freely without fear and know they were safe.

That's when she remembered that secret field. Hidden between the trees in the forest she grew so fond of. Destiny knew that no one would ever find him there.