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“It was her best film yet,” he said excitedly. “I put graphics on it and everything. It’s titled Playing Doctor. Funny, huh? I bet I could come up with an even better one for you.”
He chuckled. Jessie knew that this moment, when he was enthralled with his own cleverness, might be her last chance to surprise him before he focused in on what he planned to do to her. So she took advantage of it.
Jessie swung the torch flashlight at him, aiming for his right eye. She knew she’d made a direct hit when she made contact with something softer than bone. The sudden scream that escaped his lips reinforced her certainty.
He reached up to stop her but she pulled the light back and swung again, not taking aim this time. She managed to smash the thing against his teeth before the force of the blow sent it back into his open mouth, causing him to gag.
Kallas shook his head wildly and she lost her grip on the light. He reached up and tore it from his throat. As he looked down at her with his one good eye, the fury and hatred he felt was palpable.
He slapped her hard across the face with his left hand, as he grabbed a handful of her hair with his right. She tried to bat his arms away but he was too strong. He lifted her head up by the hair and slammed her head back down on the thin carpet, making her skull rattle and her vision blur. She felt him lift her head again. But this time she couldn’t find the strength to swat at him. She clenched her eyes tight in anticipation of what was coming.
He was just about to slam her down again when Jessie heard an earsplitting crunch. A moment later, the weight of Kallas’s body was no longer on top of her. Despite the pain, she opened her eyes and tried to focus them.
To her right, Dr. Richard Kallas was lying on his stomach. Two uniformed LAPD officers had him pinned down as one of them cuffed his hands behind his back. Kallas was still howling in pain and rage.
But after a moment, his screams began to sound more distant. In the seconds before it happened, Jessie realized she was losing consciousness. And then everything went dark.
