From Sanctum with Love (Masters and Mercenaries #10) - Lexi Blake Page 0,150

to kill me,” Sarah said, sarcasm still in her voice even in a life and death situation.

“I do. I want to kill you so bad. I thought killing Lena would quiet the voices, but it didn’t because she wasn’t the right one. I’ve been trying to figure out for a week who the right one was. He’s always got someone, you see. Jared always has. Ever since we were kids. I swear he was diddling girls when we were in fifth grade and not a fucking one of them would ever look at me. Not while he was around.” The arm he held Sarah with wasn’t empty. He had a pistol in that hand. It looked like he was ready for anything.

“Then why didn’t you leave him?” Kori wished she’d brought her phone with her. She was fairly certain crazy guy wouldn’t let her go back and text Kai a 911 message. So that left her with the only option she had at the moment. She had to keep him talking until she figured out how to save Sarah.

Squirrel’s arm tightened around Sarah. “I can’t leave Jared. What would he do without me? What would I do without him? This isn’t about Jared. This is about you bitches who can’t see past him.”

“He wasn’t interested in Lena.”

“No, but Lena found out. That bitch went through my shit and found all the press clippings of the murders. She was going to go to Jared and tell him I was a pervert.”

Kori wished Lena had been a little faster with her tattle telling. “He wouldn’t have believed her.”

“No, but he would have known those names. Do you know how hard I’ve worked to keep him from even thinking about those girls?”

She had to keep him talking. “Sarah hasn’t rejected you.”

“She would.” His tone dripped with disgust. “She wouldn’t let me touch her. She only wants Jared like they all want Jared. Like they all try to take him away from me.”

God, he was insane and she wasn’t sure what she could do. He was too close to the knives, and unlike Mia she didn’t tote a gun around, though now she did see the value in owning one. Just in case crazy serial killer who’s in love with his best friend and doesn’t like women turning him down decides to show up. That’s what a gun was for.

But he had given her something to work with. “You’re not thinking this through, Squirrel. Jared is going to know about this. He’s with Kai right now. You can’t pin this one on him.”

“I didn’t mean to pin Lena on him. I swear I didn’t. He’s my best friend. I can’t let him go to jail, but I can save him from one more gold-digging bitch. Now I can get rid of you and then off myself and everything will be made clean for Jared again,” he said.

“Please think about this.” She couldn’t stand here and watch Sarah die. This couldn’t be how she ended. “Sarah hadn’t even kissed him. They aren’t close.”

“I wasn’t thinking about marrying him. Actually, I was lying and I don’t find him attractive at all,” Sarah managed to wheeze.

“Liar,” Squirrel spat. “I saw how you looked at him. It’s the same way all the others looked at him. You wanted to use him like those women did when we were kids. I watched it. I saw how those old ladies would use him and he was helpless. I thought I could help him. I offered to take his place once but that bitch sneered at me and told me I could never be worth a dime. I killed her. She wasn’t my first, but she was one of the best. I loved the way she screamed. I wish I had more time with you, gorgeous. I wish I had time to show you what you missed out on. Do you know that most of the women begged me to stay with them after I showed them how good I was?”

“They weren’t begging you to rape them again, dumbass. They were trying to survive the experience,” Sarah shot back.

“Will you shut up and stop irritating him?” Sarah’s mouth was definitely going to have to go. “Squirrel, I was wrong. If you kill Sarah and then kill yourself, they’ll think Jared did all of it. They’ll think Jared was jealous that you stole his girl. That’s what the cops will believe. It’s going to be so bad for Jared in prison. He’ll