Joseph chuckled loudly. “Little girl, you can’t hurt me. Just walk to me. There’s nothing to be afraid of.” The same creepy smile curved the sides of his lips. “Miss Belle, relax.” He leaped forward onto me.
I pushed back. All I could see was his body fly back onto the wall. I dropped to my hands, something was pulling me down. There was a beeping sound near my ears. Around my neck, I felt a strange cold surface hug my throat. There was a click and I dropped hard paralyzed on the floor. Joseph immediately appeared beside me on the floor.
“I told you to relax, darling,” he said. The tone of his voice sounded unreal to me. It was the same tone he had given me when I had gone up the roof. Cold and uncaring. It was the same tone a teacher I knew always used when I tried to explain why I was
