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Tonight.

I felt it.

Tonight was my last night on this earth.

Checking the address of my next victim, I almost drove into a rock wall.

“Whoopsies.” I laughed.

It felt so good to laugh.

So fucking good after so much fucking misery.

Ah, Ily...

I’ll see you soon, little nightmare.

I just have one more home to visit, and then I’ll join you.

I stomped on the accelerator. My thigh blazed, my torn arm dripped, and I smiled with twisted happiness.

Driving into a ditch wouldn’t kill me quick enough.

But the next beast I put down most likely would.

I had a few hours left judging by the dark pool glinting on the car floor.

Just a few hours to get there, kill as many cunts as possible, and then...I can sleep.

A deep, wonderful sleep...with her.

Chapter Thirty-One

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Ily

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I WOKE TO MY PHONE screeching.

Sitting up, I fumbled for it on the couch where I’d passed out in the Chauhan home.

We’d talked until dawn.

They’d gone to bed holding hands and insisted I stay.

I’d called my parents so they wouldn’t worry and texted Krish that I was okay.

So who...

Blinking at the caller I.D, not recognising the number, I wondered if it was my brother.

The fact that I could come and go without him fretting revealed just how much he didn’t need me anymore.

Most of my life I’d been the only one who could calm him, soothe him.

Now, Tiger had replaced me.