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My knee jerks up, hard, slamming into his balls.
I don’t pause to see how much damage I’ve done. I just turn, and I fuckingrun.
Don’t look back. Don’t look back. Don’t. Look. Back.
When I hear the roar of Hugo’s wrath behind me, I can’t help it. It’s like an automatic response.
I look back.
Oh God.
He’s running like a maniac after me, one eye gushing blood down his face. His good one is locked onto me.
But he’s coming forme.
Not Nora.
Right now, he wants revenge, not her.
I bolt down the hill towards the commuter rail tracks. On the other side of them, there’s an even steeper hill that plunges down toward a road that runs parallel with a river I’m just now realizing is the Hudson.
I’m almost at the rails. If I can just get to the road—
I scream when something slams into me from behind, shoving me down to my hands and knees, skinning both. Adrenaline explodes through my veins, and I try to stagger to my feet.
Hugo’s fist crashes into my face. The taste of copper floods my mouth as I go toppling backwards, crying out as the back of my head slams against the ground. Lights and black spots swim through my stunned vision.
A dark shape looms over me.
Oh God…
I scream, choking as Hugo grabs me by the hair and yanks me up. He pulls me sobbing and screaming to the tracks, holding me down, my heels kicking against the rail closest to us.
It starts to vibrate.
“Fourteen past the hour, Elsa,” Hugo growls, his good eye piercing right through me. “Like fucking clockwork.”
The rattling sound of the rails grows louder, and the vibrations against my heels become harder. My eyes swivel to the side, and whatever color is left in my face drains right away.
Holy fucking shit.
Down the tracks, maybe a mile away, a commuter train is barreling straight at us.
“Hugo—”
“You could have had me,” he hisses, his eye twitching. “I would have given you the world. We were soul mates, Elsa.”
“Never,” I spit.
He smiles cruelly. “Then your sister will become my new obsession.”
The grin on his face curls demonically as he leans close.
“And I bet she tastes even. Fucking.Sweeter.”
My lips curl, and my teeth flash.
“You arenevergoing to find out.”
