Page 260 of Love Me in the Dark
She’s staring out of the window into the distance, her body trembling either with fear or more likely desire.
When I’m less than a foot away, I let my hands ghost across her skin. Careful not to actually touch her, I feel her body relax.
“That’s right.” The utterance leaves my lips. “But your mistake was thinking that you’d survive coming after what’s mine.”
I snap her neck before she can finish her thought.
Quick. Clean. Efficient.
She drops to the carpet like a marionette with its strings cut.
I step over her body and slip my phone out of my pocket.
One ring. Ezra never does keep me waiting.
“What?” He sounds exasperated. “I’m busy.”
“Ezra,” I say. “I need you to stop what you’re doing.”
“Why?” He sighs. “I’m working.”
“You’re stalking your next victim, not working. You don’tneedto work.”
“Pull the panties out of your mouth and tell me what you want, Roman. If you’re this uptight… Please tell me you’re calling because we’re finally killing someone.”
“I already did.”
Silence. Then, gleeful interest.
“Who?”
“Ruby.”
A beat. “You selfish bastard.”
“I didn’t have time to let you enjoy it. She tried to take something of mine.”
“No.” Ezra laughs. “You know I’d make it slow.”
Shaking my head even though he can’t see it, I can’t help the smile at what my twisted little brother would do to poor Ruby, given the chance.“That’s why I didn’t let you do it.”
A low whistle. “That didn’t take long.”
“She ran out of things to say.”
“Where?”
“Argonne. Room 617.”
“Want me to make it look like an accident?”
“No. Make it disappear.”
“Fine,” he says, then adds almost wistfully, “At least tell me you snapped her neck. I like the classics.”
I want to hang up, but I don’t. This is our bonding time. The only real thing that we both share. A need… to make those that wrong us hurt.
“I did.” I admit.
