“Wow. That’s some hardcore porn you’re into, Dean Stringer,” I say.
He blanches completely and shakes his head. “That’s—I wasn’t.” He reaches out for me.
Before he can touch me, I pull my knife out of my pocket and stab it into his arm.
Stringer screams, and the blood gushes out to soak his checkered dress shirt.
“I was going to be nice,” I say, still smiling, “but I changed my mind.”
I drag the knife down, and I wonder if I can disembowel him completely. God, that’ll be a gruesome scene.
Too many witnesses. We’ll have to kill the assistant, too, and wipe all the cameras, but it’ll be worth it.
“You’re… you’re fucking crazy!” Stringer shouts, scrambling away from me. The knife snags on his shirt before coming loose, and oh, the blood spills all over.
“Come on, you already knew that,” I say with a laugh. I stalk toward him, ready to plunge the knife into his gut and dye the entire office red.
Something thumps loudly. There’s a loudcrackbehind me, and I wonder if that’s what it sounds like for my chest to split apart.
Except the sound continues, and there’s no pain.
Someone grabs my wrist.
I twist around and drive my knee into the attacker, but a hand is in the way.
“Pandora!” Blaze’s voice shouts. “Jesus! It’s us, Pandora.”
I blink, and the red haze recedes. River is holding my wrist. Asch’s hand blocked my knee from destroying River’s balls.
Blaze is behind me, his hands on my shoulders.
“We’ve got you,” Asch’s voice says, but it sounds so far away.
River twists my wrist, insistent and unrelenting, and the knife clatters to the floor.
My entire hand is red.
“I’m… I’m… I’m calling the—” Stringer stutters.
Blaze levels a glare at him. “You’re calling a doctor, and you’re going to shut the fuck up.”
“What did youdo?” Asch demands.
At first, I think he’s talking to me, but then I realize his furious words are directed at Stringer.
“I didn’t do anything!” Stringer gets up, his hand trying to stem the blood-fountain on his arm. “She’s insane.”
Insane.
When everyone else gets mad, it’s fine.
WhenIget mad, I’m unreasonable.
Crazy.
Psycho.
Stringer isn’t bleeding enough. I want him to bleedmore.
