It was quick, clean, just the way I liked it. She didn’t even see it coming. One moment, she was walking home from the club, and the next, she was on the ground, her life slipping away.
I felt that familiar rush of power, the satisfaction of knowing that I had taken another life and that no one would ever know it was me. The darkness inside me purred with contentment.
But as I walked away, leaving no trace of my presence behind, something felt different this time. The rush wasn’t as strong as it used to be. The satisfaction didn’t last as long.
I thought about Sai, about how different things had been when I was spending time with him at the hospital. For a moment, I wondered if maybe he had changed me if maybe I didn’t need to kill as much as I thought I did.
But then I pushed the thought away. No, this was who I was. The darkness was a part of me, and it always would be.
Still, the thought lingered in the back of my mind as I returned to my normal life, slipping back into my role as the perfect son, the perfect model.
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The Perfect Mask
Mystery / ThrillerNakamura Kazuki, the son of one of Japan's wealthiest families, has everything: good looks, fame as a successful model, and the image of a perfect man. But beneath this flawless exterior, Kazuki hides a dark secret he is a psychopath. For him, killi...
