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Kaspar was right I did want to fuck her

I wanted to slide ht pussy until she moaned with ecstasy

Which would never happen Penny wasn’t into girls—and I didn’t knoas until recently

I didn’t knoas into anything at all

College wasme up Too many options, too much freedom I didn’t want to decide who I was and what I wanted—I needed Maeve to give me that

Penny had to die She had to die

I’d never get what I wanted from her

Better to go through with my mission and leave her pretty corpse behind than to spend another day pining for her soft lips

Penny had to die

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Kaspar

Present Day

Somewhere in the Midwest

Rede Six SUVs parked in front of an to swaruards

I was still buzzing froered on h that punish her again, it was a necessary one

I proved two things that night First, there was no escape, not until I said she could leave

And second, she wanted me

Her desire was tinged with hate like white paint with drips of red That disgust intensified her need for ave her that first jolt of pleasure, I knew I had her

I felt it oozing fro like a radioactive isotope under a black light All that intense anger and all that deep, dark lustbeautiful and explosive, and I wanted it again, needed it again—but I had to wait

I couldn’t rush this

Red like he was pleased with hiuard The old lared at the Orchard men

“We should squash ‘em,” he said “Get it over with”

“Not yet But soon” I clapped him on the shoulder Touch was important It built rapport

Despite what Penny clearly thought, I didn’t have my men’s loyalty because of money

They believed in ave them every reason to