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"What the hell," she de here?"

Rachel ss "We’ll be out of your way in no tiins striding toward us, looking furious "Get out, this instant, before I call the police"

"I e could, Eleanor," Rachel says, to the woht have been her mother-in-law "But we’re here on official residence hall business"

"I don’t give a daton has reached a wall phone Now she’s lifting up the receiver "Don’t you knoho ton," I yell

But it’s too late Like a striking cobra, Rachel lashes out with the stun gun

Mrs Allington stiffens, her eyes going wide, like sootten some very bad news…

Then she see herself over the back of one of the leather couches, twitching until she lies in a heap on the parquet floor, her eyes still wide open, her jaw slack and shiny with saliva

"Oh my God," I cry Because it is, without a doubt, theI’ve ever seen…worse even than what I’d seen Tania Trace doing to my then boyfriend "Rachel, you killed her!"

"She’s not dead," Rachel says, the disgust in her voice obvious "When she comes to, she’ll have no idea what hit her She won’t remember her last name, let alone me But that won’t be unusual, for her Coain

Now that I’ve seen firsthand what that gun could do, I’m in no hurry to experience it I realize I’d been stupid not to try to get away froht have zapped me, then hauled ht, and it would have been difficult for her This way, it’s too easy for her, and o is down

This thought is enough to cause rasp and run I don’t knohy, but I head for the door through which Mrs Allington had co so stiff from what had happened in the elevator that day before, and all But I know I’ve surprised her when Rachel lets out a furious screaood, because it means she doesn’t have the upper hand anymore