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Chapter Forty Nine
Blair
It’s chaos. Screaming people scramble over tables and knocked over chairs, fighting to get to the doors. Security wades through the masses to find the shooter, while the girls duck on stage and scuttle behind the curtain. I scan them, but I don’t see anyone who’s hurt.
The same can’t be said for the crowd though. I see at least two people on the floor covered in blood. My eyes flicker over the crowd until I spot him. He’s calmly shooting, not caring who he hits.
Anyone, everyone.
To get to me.
Composed, cold.
It grounds me, and all my panic drains. Everything fades until there is only him and me.
My stalker.
My monster.
My nightmare.
I step towards him while everyone else runs away, and I watch a security guard go down.
Red.
I won’t let him kill anyone else. This ends tonight.
Blue.
No more death, unless it’s his. There have already been too many.
Green.
I’m close now, so close I have to fight the surging crowd to get to him, but he spots me and stops shooting, aiming the gun at me, but it does nothing. My heart doesn’t even skip a beat. I’ve faced death before and survived it, becoming a woman with one foot in the grave. I’ve begged for it to take me and chased it ever since. Death doesn’t scare me. What terrifies me is losing anyone else I love at this man’s hands.
Red, blue, green.
Him.
“Stop,” I order, and he does, lowering the gun.
“I just wanted to talk,” he explains, his voice almost high and whiny. “Why wouldn’t you talk? I had to hurt these people just to get your attention!”
The music finally cuts out, and the club empties until it’s just him and me. That makes my heart stutter as I stare at him defiantly. At least no one else will get hurt, but then I hear a security man yell, “Hold on!”
I turn with my hand out to get him away. “No!”
The gun sounds as he reaches for me. I jerk as his blood sprays across me, and he crumples to the floor. I stand frozen in shock, my hands balled into fists as I feel warm blood dripping down my face, and then I finally understand.
This will never end until one of us is dead.
Turning back to him, I step closer, reaching for the gun. “Stop it now,” I demand.
“We need to be alone to talk,” he defends crazily.
“We are. No more shooting anyone, or I’ll disappear and you’ll never find me again.”
“I’ll always find you. Don’t you see that yet, Blair?” He grins, looking all innocent and not at all like he just slaughtered people, murdered my friends, or broke out of prison and hunted me down like a fucking animal. “I missed you so much. Did you miss me? I saw those new fucking men,” he sneers. “I know you only used them to make me jealous. It worked, but I’m here now, so we can be together again. We need to lay low though, come with me now—”
