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So no, I have no remorse for what I’ve done

My only regret is that I didn’t strangle him with my bare hands

The longer he reins to ebb Reality comes back into focus I’ve just killed my boss A powerful man And I did it in front of Fawn

I’ve subjected her to violence after I promised repeatedly to keep it out of our lives

Still, this has to be an exception, right? He threatened to take her away from me He has the means to do it, too A hundred ht like an animal I could have fended off ten men, maybe even twenty, but I can’t be everywhere at once And I’m not bulletproof, either This was kill or be killed

One last death on my hands

Co in my life

My angel My poor angel must be terrified

She’ll understand, won’t she? She’ll understand I had to do it

My heart bounces side to side in e toward the shower,off the walls Red coats my vision A fine sheen of icy cold sweat beco around, I notice the openand I don’t think twice, I si Pastleft to right wildly Straight ahead

The only entrance and exit to the coht break in the greenery, she’d miss it There is no other way out Not unless she clie and dense There are plenty of places to hide ae That she would hide fro circle Where is she?

“Fawn!”

My heart breaks into a million pieces at the silence that follows For a ination How else could such a perfect being want to be with me? But no No, I can smell her on my skin Her clawhead is full of her Every sle, every word she’s said to me