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“Her eyes were bleary; she must not have slept well. Pity.“Why don’t you untie me?” she asked, as I offered her a piece of buttered biscuit.“I have to go,” I said. “I can’t leave you untied when I leave the house.”“Where are you going?” She wasn’t eating; I was slightly irritated.“Out.”The shadow was back. It had come back in the night, after so many days of being chased away. I knew I had to find a new victim. Not to kill right away, but soon.There had been a man I’d been researching. A politic...ian, one who enjoyed whoring around and beating on his wife. He’d slept with his intern, too, a fourteen year old girl. She’d come out of the building once while I was there, her hair mussed, her eyes rimmed red with tears. I watched him as he spoke with her in the parking lot, threatening her, bending her against the hood of his Lexus. The thought made me shiver with dread.Yes. That would do it. That would drive the shadow back. An indulgence, to kill twice in a month, but I deserved it for dealing with such a hassle.MoreLess
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