Chapter 70

Chapter Seventy

I’m doing all this for you!

“ H ello, Jenny. It took me quite a while to find you,” I greet the traitor as she exits the bathroom of her rancid motel room.

She stands frozen in place, her gaze locked on me. I lean against her door in the dim light, my eyes fixed on her silhouette. The only illumination comes from the bathroom light, casting faint shadows across the room.

“Ezra… what? I… I’m sorry,” she stammers and tries to run past me to fight her way somehow out.

But I quickly stop her by wrapping my arm around her stomach and the other around her neck and pressing her back against me. I immobilize her and use my arm around her petite neck to make sure she doesn’t scream all over the place.

“Shh,” I murmur in her ear as I try to restrain her, as she fights me with her hands and feet. But it won’t do her any good.

“Ezra… p-please don’t do this,” she stutters.

“Don’t do what? Kill you, like I promised? That wouldn’t be very consistent of me, don’t you think, Jenny?”

Sobs fill the room, but I don’t care. That little bitch dared to go to you and tell you garbage about me, and you… you believed her instead of talking to me. That hurts, Beauty. I don’t know if I can forgive you so quickly. But we’ll see…

“What did you tell her, huh? Did you tell her about your little whore girlfriend? How she cheated on me with my best friend and lied to me? Just fucked him behind my back as if I didn’t exist? As if our love had never existed? Did you tell her about that?” My voice gets darker and darker toward the end and shakes uncontrollably.

I feel anger build up inside me, and I don’t know when it will become too much. But I still have the strength to stand up to the dark inside me for you, our love, and our future together. I’ll get it back; I promise you, Beauty.

“Y-you’re sick! You were never together! Sarah always thought you were creepy and only accepted you because you were Milo’s best friend. She loved Milo and would never have cheated on him! How could you do that to your best friend—your only friend who didn’t think you were crazy? He was loyal to you, and you?” she sobs, and yet I can hear the contempt in every single word, and what I hear makes me so unspeakably angry.

“Loyal?” I laugh almost mirthlessly. “You call that loyal? Stealing my girlfriend from me? Sarah and I were happy until Milo somehow came between us! And you… YOU convinced her I wasn’t good for her. You’re partly to blame for the fact that they’re both dead now!”

“It was you! You killed them both because you, sick freak, convinced yourself that Sarah loved you. But she feared and hated you. She wanted to get rid of you!” she shrieks, as far as my arm around her neck will allow.

My pulse quickens, and my blood literally boils. I just want to shut her up because what she’s saying is a lie! Sarah loved me! We were happy! I know it!

“YOU’RE LYING!” I yell at her and squeeze my arm a little tighter around her neck so I don’t have to listen to her ugly talk anymore. “STOP LYING!”

“Ez-Ezra…,” she croaks, making me squeeze tighter so she’ll finally stop saying such horrible things.

“You told Cora I killed Sarah and Milo? That was a mistake, Jenny! You shouldn’t have interfered in things that don’t concern you!” I growl quietly in her ear before I break her neck with a powerful jerk, and she instantly goes limp in my grip.

Panting, I let her fall to the ground and look down at her. Shit! I can’t have a corpse right now. What do I do with her now? I feverishly think of a way out; then my gaze falls on her open towel, which has fallen to the floor in the fall. I get an idea of how to escape this situation.

I drag the lifeless body back into the bathroom. Luckily for me, it’s equipped with a bathtub, which fits perfectly into my plan.

I tear the towel off her body, throw her into the bath, and wash her whole body again so as not to leave any marks. Carefully, I drape her body in such a way that it looks like she slipped in the bath and broke her neck when she fell.

After finishing my work, I check one last time to make sure it looks like an accident. Then, armed with the towel, I press the door handle, clean my fingerprints off the other side, and leave.

I was never here, and it was a tragic accident… Like one of so many.

On the way home, I dispose of the towel in a garbage container to sever the last connection to what just happened.

My thoughts race as I drive. Jenny told you all about my past, at least her version. Some bitch you did not even know, and yet you believed her so quickly, swallowed what she told you about me.

I thought you were my salvation, Beauty! Instead, you made me a much worse monster. You have unleashed all my darkness on the world at once, and it has already chosen its next target…

I will hurt you as much as you hurt me. I will rip your heart out of your chest and bleed you dry, just like you did to me. And I won’t have to touch you because your heart beats outside your chest. You’ll see, Beauty… You’ll wish you’d never betrayed me like that.