(Ellora's Cave) Evelyn Vaughn The Devil She Knew

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"Brimstone."
Tomas forgot about Marcy clocking him in the face and tried the door. Locked.
Well, he damn well knew doors. This one was wood, at least forty years old and poorly set in its frame.
It took him one solid kick on the jamb to crash through.
He took longer to grasp what he saw on the other side.
The room had once been a sunken living room/den with dark paneling, probably the height of fashion
when the house was built, complete with a wet bar for entertaining. Ricky had kept the avocado shag
carpet, the panels, the wet bar. He'd kept the glass case of small trophies and ribbons, the display rack
of old baseball bats.
But he'd painted a circle on the shaggy floor with weird, occult symbols along its border, like something
out of a B-level horror movie. He'd turned the wet bar into some kind of altar, complete with skull and
candles and a huge, heavy-looking book. And he'd hung grotesque banners on each of the dark walls,
strange pictures painted in Tomas-didn't-want-to-know-what.
All except the wall behind the altar. That one was decorated with a spread of photographs of teenage
girls, including many of the ones Tomas had been looking at in Marcy's yearbooks. Several pictures
looked more modern probably from the class reunion.
The son of a bitch!
"I know what you're thinking," said Ricky Everitt, circling warily behind the bar. "You're wondering why
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But Tomas vaulted across his Formica altar and slammed the bastard into his wishing wall before the
man could even finish.
Ricky made a terrified, squeaking noise.
"You think I care?" demanded Tomas, using his full weight to keep this self-styled Satanist pinned
against the paneling, breathing into his face. He was careful to enunciate past his hurt nose. "You think I
give a damn what miserable part of your little loser life made you think you had the right to hurt innocent
women?"
"But theyweren't innocent," protested Ricky, trying to duck. He didn't stand a chance of movement.
"That's why we had to keep going. We "
Tomas dug his fingers into the wimp's scrawny shoulder, shaking him again so the back of his head
thumped against the paneling. He narrowed his eyes, lowered his voice to an even more dangerous growl
and let an edge of his parents' accent roll through the words. "Why are you still talking?"
Ricky pressed his lips tightly together and Marcy, behind Tomas, said, "I want to know."
Tomas rolled his eyes, unable to contain a sigh. But at least she'd stopped fighting him to protect this
waste of breath. "What I want to know," he said, "is how soon Ricky here can call his pet monster off."
Ricky said, "I can't."
Tomas shook him again. "Wrong. Answer."
Marcy asked, "What do you mean, you had to keep going?"
Ricky slid his fearful gaze to Tomas, who reluctantly nodded. "Make it fast."
"Daiesthai only needed one virgin, just one, as payment, so it seemed weird that I had to provide a
whole list of names and pictures and hair clippings "
Both Tomas and Marcy repeated, "Hair clippings?"
"Or lollipop sticks or chewed gum or used Kleenex anything with their DNA on it. I never thought it
would get as far as any of the others, like Marcy, but who knew Jenny Black was such a slut?"
Tomas blinked at him. "Jenny Black?"
"She died at a party in our junior year." To judge from Marcy's hushed voice, she knew exactly who he
meant. "The rumor was she was doing drugs and caught herself on fire& "
"Four? You killedfour women?" Not, Tomas realized, that they could ever prove it in court.
He decided to worry about that once they solved Marcy's problem at no matter what cost to Ricky.
"Then it turned out we had to wait over two years before Daiesthai could try again," continued Ricky,
voice uneven. "There's always a catch, isn't there? That, and the fresh DNA sample, and the stupid
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chanting& "
As if he was griping about a bad lease contract on a car!
Marcy said, "And after two years?"
"Liz was away at Columbia, and I guess she wasn't a virgin anymore, either. Then Judy. Hell, by the time
we got to Cassie, she'd been married and divorced!"
"So you killed them," said Tomas. [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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