She Is Risen (She Is Risen: The Gun Control Case Studies) (31 page)

            Henri screams like a wild man, squeezing as hard
as he can until his muscles begin to tear from the effort.  Finally, the
hellish beating stops, and the woman drops to the floor of the large, white tub
with Henri on her back.  As he raises his head, Henri realizes that his vision
has gone dark again.  The cruel sting of being blind makes him shiver.  He
begins to cry with the immediate shock of lying naked next to a dead body in
the tub.  His hands are trembling as he reaches out to grip the wall, but he
grabs the woman’s short ponytail instead.  Henri freezes for a moment, not
recalling that the ghastly creature had a ponytail.  His mind goes numb when he
realizes that the body next to him in the tub is also naked.

            “Maurice?” He calls out in vain, hoping to hear
the familiar response from his friend and employee.  “Maurice!?”

            Henri moves his hand around from the ponytail to
the right ear of the body, feeling a familiar crucifix earring.  He leaps out
of the tub with the sudden cold sting of reality in the center of his gut,
falling onto his back atop the surface of the cold tile.  Henri lies there,
shaking on the floor, horrified by what might come next.

            “She’s still alive… Just finish me; I don’t want
to suffer anymore!” Henri concedes, with tears streaming from his blinded eyes,
feeling her presence in the room, immersed in fear and defeat as he waits in
silence for his inevitable end.

END OF VOLUME I.

COMING SOON: She Is
Risen: Torn The Langley Contour

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