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A memory of something gruesome happening to me once flashes back in my mind. A memory I won’t forget. This… feels likedeja vu. It was fifteen years ago now and it was another eye opener to the world I lived in. My world.
A box was delivered to me just like this here at the office.
I thought it was paperwork then too. I was a hot shot, just out of college and ready to work for Pa. They’d just realized how good I was with large sums of money and gave me a client who I could only describe as a psycho. The job went south but it wasn’t my fault. They were shadier than us. The feds were already on to them for tax evasion and worst of all, fraud. I find you can get around the tax evasion but fraud is something else.
If the feds suspect you for it they already know you’re guilty.
That didn’t matter at the time. They blamed me when the feds came for them and seized their assets. I’d barely touched anything, barely gave any advice, just barely anything. They just wanted to do something to work off frustration and point blame, teach me a lesson.
There was a girl that worked with us here. We went out for a drink and I spent the night with her, her name was Kelly.
I remember getting the box, putting it on my desk and getting a prickling sensation crawl down my spine.
Like I am now.
Pulling in a deep breath, I open the box just like I did fifteen years ago and it’s the same thing.
A head.
Fifteen years ago it was Kelly. One night with me got her killed.
Today it’s …fuck… no…
I remember her name now.
Cora.
Her name is Cora.
Her namewasCora.
Just last night she tried to seduce me, now her lifeless eyes stare back at me.
Bile rises in my throat and my hands start shaking.
There’s an envelope stuck to her head. A fucking note.
I have to shove down whatever humanity is in me to pick it up and read it.
Here’s one of your dolls.
Manwhore, I couldn’t decide which doll to choose from.
So I went with her.
She said she was yours.
I may pick another, and another, and another.
Stephanou
I don’t waitfor my thoughts to process. I run.
I run to Mimi.
Jump in my car and run- every light to get to her.
She’s supposed to be at the restaurant.
