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We sat silently and stewed on it for a few moments while Tommy shouted at us from the other room.
Then Katie smiled, and it sent a glorious tendril of warmth through me. ‘We make it look like an accident.’
‘How?’ Ewen asked.
‘Have you guys got any rope?’
‘We can get some,’ I said, watching my girl’s brain tick behind her eyes.
‘Make it look like he died while trying autoerotic asphyxiation. It would fit with all the sick shit they’ll find here.’
‘I want him to suffer. That’s too quick,’ I said.
Katie turned to face me, her hand slipping under my chin as she kissed me softly. It tore my heart right from my chest and made it putty in her hands. ‘It is too quick, but when it’s discovered everyone will remember him as a sick fuck and an idiot, they’ll find his den full of twisted photos and he’ll be vilified in death rather than glorified by his fans.’
Her lips moved against mine as she spoke and my need for revenge grappled against my want to please her.
‘Please,’ she asked, ‘for me?’
‘I’d do anything for you, sweetness.’
I stole another tender kiss, fighting my urge to pour all the wound up emotion into it. I wanted to claim her fiercely, to devour her mouth. I needed to pour all my pent up fear and angst into it and it took everything to hold back. She was hurt, physically and emotionally, and I needed to be careful with her.
We stayed wrapped up in one another while Logan sourced some rope and they forced Tommy to his feet on the chair, securing the noose they placed around his next to a rafter above. We had to hope it wouldn’t give way when it took his full weight and bring the aged ceiling down on top of us.
‘Do you want me to kick the chair out?’ Logan called from the other room.
‘No,’ Katie said. ‘I want to do it.’
‘You don’t have to do that.’
‘I want to.’
When she stood, there was a renewed strength to her that made me breathe a sigh of relief. In time, I thought she’d be okay.
We made our way to the other room, hand in hand, and stood in front of Tommy, watching him struggle on his tiptoes as the rope cut into his neck.
‘You should have left me alone,’ Katie said. ‘You couldn’t let me be happy, could you?’
‘Baby, this is crazy. Let me go.’
‘I’m not your baby.’
‘Please,’ he wheedled, ‘please, Katie. You loved me once. You can’t let them kill me.’
‘No, you’re right. I’m not going to let them do it. I’m going to do it myself.’
Tommy tried to kick out at her, teetering on the edge of the chair as he cried out. Frustration and fear made him tremble.
‘But first, Mac needs to see you suffer, and while I need this to look like an accident, there are other ways to make your last moments hell.’
I looked at Katie, narrowing my eyes. What was she planning?
‘Ewen, Logan, we need ten minutes alone.’
Fuck. She wasn’t...
The door creaked behind us as they let themselves out.
