I didn’t let her go. There was nothing she could do now. No way to change what had already happened.
Charles stood still, watching her tantrum without blinking. Then he spoke again.
“Do you remember that evening?” he asked her calmly. “You kept calling and calling. Kevin finally answered and told you he’d been busy?”
Raven froze in my arms.
“That was me,” Charles said with a cold smile. “I was done drowning him by then.”
My entire body went stiff.
“I had already finished him,” he said. “I enjoyed every second of it. The way he struggled. Just like I struggled when I got shot.”
He paused. My heart pounded.
“Kevin struggled and died helplessly,” Charles said, gritting his teeth. “He begged. He cried. But I didn’t stop.”
He stared at the ground for a second, then looked up again.
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