g laugh hit Brandt l
The veins in his neck bul
arge hand clamped around
nuckles turning white. He stared intensely into her eyes,
was
ck of oxygen. Her lungs burned as if she had inhaled f
t ounce of strength le
her head
directly into the side of Brandt's neck,
pensive, stiff fabric of his collar
nstantly flooded Eulah's mouth. I
a roar of pure,
ck and swung it forw
threw Eul
h the air, the heavy
crack echoed th
l smashed into the jagge
ad. It poured down the wall, staining th
e hung completely limp, suspended only by
gray haze. But she kept
clamped over his bleeding neck. B
familiar-flashed
soaked fingers against the wound, not out of any sense of mercy, but driven by a furious, twisted possessiveness. She
ll, Mace heard
, his keys jingling
d the prisoner bleeding out on the wall. His knees gave out. He co
rey had died without his per
He snatched the standard-issu
, Brandt drove the blade strai
. His blood mixed with the muddy p
the monster
h twitched up into a gr
uffocating darkness
ock. Ti
ticking sound pier
yanked from the se
gs expanding so fast it hu
soft, silk-sheete
gh the gap in the heavy velvet curtai
the back of her head
ct. There was no blood. N
e scrambled up, her eyes
She saw the oil paintings of landsc
r heart hammered against h
her bedroom at t
hteen years
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