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I shook my head. “He doesn’t want to end it too quickly. He’s too much of a perfectionist and his internal script needs more than just to kill me.”
“I hate this.”
“Not more than I do.” I stepped away from him and walked toward the slip.
Bastian walked his silent bike into the shadows.
Even being near this dock made me shake. My hands right down to my feet were all nearly vibrating with the need to run from here. But I didn’t. I stood in the center of the slip and held my arms out. “Come and get me you piece of shit.”
I turned in a circle to make sure I activated all the fucking cameras.
Now I just had to hope that he was just as obsessed with his kills as the one place he failed.
I wasn’t sure how long it had been since I’d seen Locke on that screen.
Those knots tight against his chest.
What if he couldn’t breathe?
What if he was already gone?
I crouched on the planks of the slip and bowed my head and did something I hadn’t done since I was a child.
I prayed.
CHAPTER 33
LOCKE
The ropes were so tight,I could barely gather a breath.
I was pretty sure I’d cracked a rib.
But she hadn’t come.
She kept her promise.
I hated that she could see me on this feed. That he could taunt her here as much as he did when he’d tried to kill her.
But if she lived, that was enough for me.
I wheezed as the ropes around my neck suddenly went tight.
My gaze tracked to the madman with his fake fucking eyes. I squinted at him.
Was he laughing? He rushed over to something, but I couldn’t track him that far without moving, and there was no way I could survive another inch of constriction. Already, the room was going gray.
“I knew she was the perfect victim. She would always come back to me.”
I couldn’t even scream my rage.
I had no air for that.
He stalked back to me, his eyes glittering behind the black void. He leaned in. “Shame I won’t hear your last breath.” Then he kicked the chair and the ropes burned into my skin.
It felt like I was in a vise, but instead of metal, it was the relentless tension of the marine ropes.
I tipped back, two of the legs off the ground.
