The Devil’s
Dress was Emerald Green
Robert
Stevens met the girl 10 days after he’d lost his job. He had been an accountant
for well over a decade at the firm and it had come as a shock when they said
that they had to let him go. Thus it had seemed like serendipity at first,
Irish luck or a wish come true when she entered the bar he had gone to with the
purpose of drowning his sorrows. She wore his favourite colour and her flaming
red hair had instantly caught his attention. She sat down next to him even
though there had been many tables vacant at that time of the day.
“Are you
Robert Stevens?” she had asked him, her voice sweet, friendly.
He was 9
beers down already by then so he didn’t trust his voice not to slur. He had
nodded instead in reply to her question. He had 8 bucks left in his pocket and
nothing in the bank so he was eager as could be to hear her offer. There were 7
pages to the contract she placed before him then and the further down the pages
he went the finer the print seemed to get. Regardless it only took him 6
seconds to say yes. 5 droplets of his blood were smeared at the bottom of the
final page. He had thought to himself when the door closes you just have to
open a window.
“Feels like
I’m signing my life away,” he laughed as his finger traced his signature from
the crimson drops.
“You’re
doing more than that,” she replied with a gorgeous smile.
It took him
4 attempts gather up enough courage to enter the bank she had specified when
she had promised him riches beyond his wildest dreams. When he stepped back out
on the street again his arms were full of cash, a smoking gun was in his hand
and there were 3 bodies left in his wake. The first had been an off duty cop, then
a mother of three and finally a beloved local school teacher.
Only 2 of
the major news channels covered the story as the manhunt for him began. For
only a few days he was on the run. By the end he had spent at least half the
dough sneaking across the country. They found him holed up somewhere near the
border to Mexico. He was there waiting with his girl at his side. The last
thing he heard before the bullets began to fly was her 1 little secret. She was
the Devil and his heart and soul both belonged to her.
