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He blinked at me again. “Now? I have a class of graduates out there.”
“Is there a better time for an amputation?”
His chin wobbled.
“Of course, you could always resign.”
Whatever his choice, there were consequences for his actions.
A nice package would have dropped into his mailbox by now. The contents would have let his wife see what the fucker had been up to with his secretary.
I was kind like that.
“The finger.”
“Which hand is your dominant one?”
He hesitated. “My—”
“If you lie, I’ll come back and take another.”
Terror leaped into his expression again. “No! I’m left-handed. Left!”
I hummed under my breath then moved back. “Lean against the toilet and don’t say a fucking word or I’ll stick this in that fat gut of yours.”
He scurried to obey, leaning back against the toilet as I requested.
Snagging his hand, I twisted his pointer finger back and away from the others and set the blade against it.
“You will not scream. You utter a sound, I’ll slice something else off. Do you understand?”
He squawked like a dying bird but I didn’t let him think about it.
With my gaze trained on his, his glued to mine, I let the blade dig into the digit and sliced through.
I’d made sure my knife was nice and dull, too, so he felt every sawing, jagged motion.
A high-pitched squeak escaped him, but I could forgive him that because it was high enough that only bats would recognize it anyway.
A minute later, as blood spurted, he started to pass out from the pain, but I rasped, “If you faint, you could die of blood loss on this bathroom floor.
“It’s down to you to get yourself to the ER and to find an excuse.
“I know where you live, Forrester. I know everything about you.Everything.
“I will renew our acquaintance if a whisper of this finds its way to the authorities. Do you understand me?”
He moaned.
I got to my feet and peered at my pants.
Not a drop of blood in sight.
Satisfied, I snatched a handkerchief from my pocket then picked up his finger and tucked it inside the folds.
“B-But—” he stuttered, clearly trying to gather enough strength to get to his feet. Fear immobilized him though.
Good.
