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He went white.
Silent.
Still.
While cloaked in that misty icy detachment, I dropped my hand, wiped my blood-sticky palm on his hideous shirt, and turned to face Neri.
She narrowed her eyes at us, suspicious and wary. Ethan clung to the railing, his back to the sea, his hands behind him as he kept all his focus on me. “What do you want? Money? I-I have some. I can—”
“Quiet,” I whispered, never taking my gaze away from the girl who would always own me, body and soul.
I mouthed the words, “I love you.”
Neri flinched as if what I’d done here tonight had opened her eyes to what I truly was.
And then...with strength and power that hummed in my tarnished blood, I round-housed the motherfucker in the upper chest. “Scream all you want. Scream where no one can hear you.”
His breath exploded.
His face crumpled.
He tumbled backward and vanished overboard.
His splash was entirely satisfying.
His disappearance into the depths totally justified.
Neri cut the engine.
The Fluke groaned as it sank back into the sea, swallowed up by the very waves it’d just been surfing. We rocked and rolled as our wake caught up to us.
On bare feet with her father’s hoodie hanging to her mid-thighs, Neri bolted toward me and looked over the railing.
Nothing.
No sound of gasping. No splash of swimming.
If Ethan survived the fall, he’d have to fight to survive.
His blood would ring the dinner bell; the scent of his suffering bringing predators slinking from the deep.
Neri’s eyes searched the moon-glowing ocean. Her shoulders slouched as she turned toward me. “Why?”
I shrugged. “There was no other way.”
“But I asked you—”
“To kill him. You only changed your mind because you didn’t want me to wear that sin. You didn’t want me to carry what I did. You were thinking of me, Neri...not yourself.”
“But you’d already hurt him so much—”
“Does that sicken you? Seeing what I’m capable of?”
She didn’t answer.
It killed me that she didn’t answer.
Her voice was quiet as she asked another question. “What if he drowns?”
