Epiloge: A Butler's Tale

(This is in responce to a reviewer's request about the butler's motive for murdering Senator Moore.)

Philip froze when he heard the detectives speaking to Grace about video tapes. He knew instantly which ones they meant. Senator Moore had given him the task of mailing them. Though he never knew what was on them until now. Everything he had been told was a lie. He had been made an accomplice to rape and God knows what else. All the marks on her body, her wrists, neck, and everywhere else. He was told they were self inflicted while she was having psychotic episodes. They would hide her away in another part of the house only allowing doctors to see her, never staff. It was all a lie. She was never crazy. They had been hurting her right under his nose. Well, never again. She was everything to him. He loved her more than life itself. She was the only person who saw him when others didn't. never treating him like a servant. Hell she made him dinner every night and they would sit and talk, drinking tea, they were friends. She treated him like a person and he treated her like she was sane. Every smile and every kind word she had ever spoke flashed into his mind. He heard the Senator calling for her coming closer. NO one would ever hurt her again.

by: C. G. Parker