Keith gave a superb chortle at that. “Yeah, that’s not why.”

“Then why?”

“You’re nonetheless speaking. At all times speaking.”

“I’ve been informed I do plenty of that.”

“They usually’re proper. Stunned nobody in jail tried to make you utilize that mouth for one thing else.”

“I assume it by no means crossed their minds.”

“Their loss.”

I solely had a second to register what he’d simply mentioned earlier than I felt myself spun round and shoved exhausting into one of many rock partitions. Fortunately, I managed to not bounce my head off it, however the air was nonetheless knocked from my lungs. Keith stood earlier than me, virtually precisely my top, and with a shit-eating grin on his face.

“Wha…” I managed to gasp as I used to be held tight in opposition to the tough rock.

“See, I used to be the one who noticed you two first, earlier than anybody else,” he mentioned, cocking his head. “Instructed Eddy all about you two…effectively, not all about you.”

“What?” I requested, worry spiking by my system like a painful drug.

“I didn’t point out the way you two acquired all cozy on that rock. So candy, hugging him when you watched the hearth and talked,” Keith cooed, reaching behind him and pulling out a blade so long as his hand, letting it catch the moonlight. “And also you boys didn’t air that tent out. For those who suppose I couldn’t odor what you two did earlier than we came across you, then you definately don’t know a rattling factor.”

My eyes adopted the blade because it moved by the darkness, waving backwards and forwards. I may need been making an attempt to magnify how freaked out I used to be earlier, however I used to be feeling actual terror creep into my throat. “What are you speaking about?”

“I’m speaking about the truth that I’ve been caught with these assholes for weeks and ain’t had a chunk of ass in so lengthy. Thought I’d discover a approach to have some enjoyable with Ol’ Crimson up there, however truthfully, you’re each rattling superb,” he mentioned, shoving my arms above my head, my wrists cracking with agony as they slammed into the ridge on the high of the rock.

“Aw fuck,” I groaned. It was my worst nightmare whereas in jail. There had been just a few passes thrown my means, however I all the time made positive everybody knew I wasn’t . After which I’d gone out of my means to ensure I used to be by no means caught on my own by guys who have been identified to assist themselves once they happy. Now, I discovered myself staring down the barrel of that specific horror. “Don’t.”

“Aww, don’t fear,” he crooned at me. “If Ol’ Crimson hasn’t blown you out, it gained’t take me lengthy. Simply wish to get mine, and it’s been weeks, so…behave.”

The final phrase was punctuated by the chilly, biting press of the blade in opposition to my neck. It wasn’t sufficient to attract blood, not but anyway, however the message was apparent all the identical. I might solely stand there as he leaned in, stealing a kiss from me in probably the most wretched means attainable. My fingers flexed, wrapping round one thing that match between my palms, wiggling as my arms shook.

Oh…dangerous thought, dangerous, dangerous, dangerous thought when this sadist had a knife to my neck. However…fuck it, I used to be most likely going to finish up useless if I simply accepted every thing that was deliberate for me. A minimum of if I failed this one dangerous thought, then I’d most likely go fast.

I clamped my tooth over his backside lip, making him hiss in ache. A slice of fireside went alongside my throat, adopted by heat that trickled down as he jerked towards me then again. His mouth curled right into a sneer as blood ran from his damaged lip, however my grip tightened across the rock, and with a heavy grunt, I slid it ahead and introduced it down.

I remembered with sickening readability the sound of the gun slamming into the aged clerk’s head. The jarring sound of metallic brutally assembly flesh and bone nonetheless often popped up in my goals, by no means fully leaving me freed from the guilt. That was nothing in comparison with the sound of that rock coming down on Keith’s head. I felt one thing give as rock met cranium, and a moist noise dampened the crunch, making my abdomen lurch.

Keith stumbled again, his mouth transferring with out making a sound…at first. Blood trickled down his face, into his forehead, and dripped down onto his chin. A moist noise, someplace between a snarl and a groan, bubbled up in a sickeningly thick means. The moonlight was too sturdy, and I might see the dent on Keith’s head as he swayed on the spot.

For one horrifying second, his dazed eyes managed to swivel wetly of their sockets, lock onto mine, and acknowledge me. Hate and fury I had by no means seen in one other particular person’s eyes boiled in his gaze, and he took a stumbling step ahead, knife arising.

“Gug,” he choked, and the subsequent noise was the clatter of the knife dropping to the bottom.

“No,” I whispered, holding my arms out to ward him off. Deep down, I knew there was nothing left able to hurting me. I’d hit him too exhausting, and…oh God, there was an enormous dent within the high of his head. However even nonetheless, I wished desperately to push him away, to ensure he couldn’t put his arms on me.

However he did. Simply as his knees gave out, his fingers discovered my shirt and gripped with the power of the determined. I wished to shriek, however all I might handle was a rasping whimper as I pushed myself as far again in opposition to the wall as I might handle. He was now not staring immediately at me. His head was lolling backwards and forwards between watery gasps for air.

Keith’s grip tightened as he pitched backward, and I felt quite than heard my shirt tear as he collapsed. I stood there, watching his blood-smeared face, the moonlight making the crimson totally black. His lips and fingers twitched spasmodically for a number of seconds, his legs kicking. A choking sound bubbled up out of his chest as his fingers splayed out earlier than he lastly went fully nonetheless.

I didn’t know the way lengthy I stood there, watching his unmoving physique with what felt like every thing in my chest locked in my throat. Sooner or later, my chest loosened sufficient {that a} whine squeezed by my lips as I stared down at him. My eyes drifted to my arms, nonetheless clenched across the rock. To my horror, I might see the underside was moist and dripping. Even worse, there was a bit of what I hoped was dust caught to the underside however I didn’t study it, throwing it away from me with a whimper.

“Fuck,” I moaned, placing my arms to my face and squeezing. My nails bit into my pores and skin, and I welcomed the ache. My face was moist, and I wiped furiously at it with the again of my hand solely to comprehend it was tears. “Wait…what?”

I stared at my arms, spreading them aside and realizing they have been free. I had no thought the place it had gone, however the zip tie was now not round my wrists. Vaguely, I remembered joking round months in the past with Dom, who had tried to show me how you can get away of zip ties since that was apparently how he managed to flee police custody after getting caught breaking right into a retailer.

“Simply convey your arms up like this, elbows collectively,” he’d informed me, demonstrating with a tie we’d nabbed from the provision shed round his wrists. “And produce your arms down quick, snapping your elbows aside.”

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