Staring hard into those evil DEMONIC eyes, I take a firm grip of the knife and slash quickly across that disgusting cheek adding it to the many slashes across the face and naked body. " I trusted you, you pathetic excuse for a human. WE ALL trusted you .... around our homes, our lives, our community, OUR CHILDREN .... You are a vile, sick and perverted evil fuck who deserves more than what I will do to you!!!" I say in a quiet but menacing tone once the screams have died out. " Death is too good for you but life is not what you deserve.... You fucken piece of shit! I hope the evil that's wrapped around your heart and mind takes you to straight to hell... For a brief moment I see a tinge of sorrow in those eyes and definitely fear, but that doesn't matter to me as I push up the knife straight into the left eyeball... "Aaaarrrgghhh!!!!!! " came the agonising screams "Shut the fuck up, you freak!" And I push the sharp long knife up and twist it. I popped the eye right out; the screams filling my head and nauseating me to the point of near unconsciousness. After hours of torture I look directly into the remaining right eye and simply say... "For all the children you killed and especially mine....." and firmly slice that throat from one ear to the other... I fall to the floor unconscious from the sheer effort of it all.
Adele knows she witnessed a murder - what she doesn't know is just how personal it is.
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A girl was brutally murdered in the basement of a sorority house in spring 2011. Adele Theroux thinks she saw the killer - and the killer definitely saw her. What she doesn't know is why this all happened and who this guy is. As she tries to solve the mystery from a distance while in witness protection, the connections keep getting weirder and more personal. Might she be able to relate to the killer in a way that no one else can? And what does that mean about her own psyche?
*2019 Watty Award for Mystery/Thriller*
[[word count: 50,000-60,000 words]]
Cover designed by April Alforque