toward the beach house and stepped inside. The screen door slammed behind him as he wiped off his feet and headed into his study. It was sort of a study, though kind of makeshift. He was isolated enough out there, he could cut a few corners. The door squeaked as he opened it and flipped the light on. Once the light came on, the girl on the table tried to scream, but the tape over her mouth just left it a muffled groan.
“Hello my dear. I suppose we can get started. Too bad you couldn’t come on my walk with me. It was very nice out ,” he said.
She replied with another attempted scream. Her hands and feet were bound to the table by leather straps he had made himself out of previous victims.
“Well, I guess you can’t talk with that over your mouth. How rude of me.” He tore the tape off as she let out a gasp.
Immediately she began screaming. He covered his ears and waved his hand at her.
“No! No! Stop that! Stop or the tape goes back on!” he yelled over her.
Finally she stopped screaming and began crying.
“Please don’t hurt me,” she said. “Why are you doing this? I haven’t done anything.”
“Oh I know. It’s just one of those things. Why does the lion attack the gazelle? Why does the spider capture the fly? It’s just nature. Nothing more.”
“I have a little boy, he’s five years old. He needs me,” she pleaded.
“I’m sure he’ll manage. Sure, he’ll be sad for a while, but kids are resilient.”
He was so caught up in the conversation with her, he didn’t know about the stun gun until it was jammed into his lower back and activated. He almost bit his tongue as his body stiffened and he collapsed to the ground. No matter how much he tried to move, he was totally paralyzed. Standing over him with her arms crossed and holding the gun was Jenny. She looked different. Her hair was shorter and she was much more cleaned up than the last time he’d seen her. She also looked much bigger. Not fat, but muscular, as if she had been working out. A lot.
“Hello, Duncan. Did you miss me?” Jenny said.
He lifted his head as he tried to sit up, but she stomped on his face with her boot. He saw stars as the blow stunned him. She undid the straps on the table and helped the girl up. Once she was up, Jenny took her jacket off and put it over the girl.
“Run, get out of here. As far and as fast as you can ,” Jenny said.
The girl didn’t need to be told twice as she bolted out the door.
“Now why did you have to let her go?” Duncan complained “I had her all primed and ready.”
“Shut the fuck up,” she said as she bent down and grabbed him by the hair. As she pulled him up, she blasted him in the face with her knee. Stunning him once again, this time his nose burst open as it crunched beneath her knee. She placed him on the table, and strapped him down. Once he was strapped down, she took the knife and cut his clothes off him until he was lying there naked.
“You know I have money right?” he said.
“I don’t give a shit about your money ,” she answered.
He looked up at the ceiling and took a deep breath. Part of him had always wondered how he’d meet his end. Living the life he did, with his hobby wasn’t something that one could do forever. It could be possible, but odds were he’d end up dead, in prison or die by lethal injection. Being strapped to his own table by one of his victims was not something he had prepared himself for mentally.
“Now,” Jenny said as she picked a scalpel up off his table. “What would you like to lose first?”
Chapter 24
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