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Breath heaved from Jessica, painful and ragged. She stared up at the man above her, wondering how a person became so evil. That was exactly what he was. Evil.
“What are you doing in my apartment, Jessica German?” he asked, his voice slithering up her spine. He moved around her, keeping his dark eyes locked on her beneath him on the floor.
“I came to ask why you called the police on me. Why you told them I killed my friend.”
The man rubbed his chin and smiled. There was a glint in his eyes, like he was remembering the whole thing. Like he enjoyed taking a life. Taking Karli’s life.
Jessica had never known that kind of evil before. She’d never witnessed it. It chilled her to her very core. It made her wonder if there was a light at the end of the tunnel. It drowned out the good she w
