Birds-eye

Birds-eye, pt 14

'What?' says Jason, voicing my thoughts exactly. After all I did for her, she wants me dead. O, I have me half a mind to fly into the back of her head right here, right now. Yes lady, if I go down, I'll take you with me. Or at least ruin you coiffure.
'Don't you think I have done enough killing on your account for today?' Both of them manage to avoid gazing at what is so overwhelmingly present in the room.
'On my account? Who told me to sleep with him in the first place? Whose idea was it to extort him for money?'
'What, you don't need money no more? You don't want to restore your Auntie Augusta's precious mansion house?'
'This is not on me!' she yells, pointing a finely manicured finger at the dead Pentecost.
'He called you a whore! He was looking to strangle you!'
'So you pokered him in the head? You should have left me to try and persuade him.'
'You'd done your part of persuading, darlin'. He wasn't buying no more. I had to dos omething before he'd betray us. And now, shut your piehole and help me get rid of this body! And clean this mess!'
She starts to climb down the chair carefully. 'If you just had let me put him in the trunk, there'd be a lot less mess,' she mopes. He sighs, but I know inside his anger his rising. 'In the trunk, they'd found the body when they find the car and know it wasn't no accident. Now, when they find the car, they'll think he drove in there himself and the body floated off. They'll think it bad luck and leave it at that. The way we want it.'
'And what about this body here? How we gonna take care of that?'
'There's other ways to get rid of a body.'
'You sure seem to know a lot about it.'
'I sure do.' With that, Jason walks up to the window and opens it. I know an opportunity when I see it. I am no more than a speck of white and grey as I dart out, breathing the sweet air of freedom once more.

Previous parts:
Birds-eye, part 1
Birds-eye, part 2
Birds-eye, part 3
Birds-eye, part 4
Birds-eye, part 5
Birds-eye, part 6
Birds-eye, part 7
Birds-eye, part 8
Birds-eye, part 9
Birds-eye, part 10
Birds-eye, part 11
Birds-eye, part 12
Birds-eye, part 13