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The table was set when I walked in. Louise had found some wine glasses somewhere and placed them on the table half full of white wine. Taking the piss I picked up the cheap bottle of plonk and examined the label. I then picked up the glass held it to my nose and took a quick exaggerated sniff. Then I tasted it a small sip and then drilled it around my mouth like mouthwash. Instead of spitting it out, I swallowed it.
“That will do nicely. You picked a good an there lass.”
“I’m glad sir approves.”
We were giggling and smiling. Her face was just relaxed and happy. Was this down to me or was it me? It felt right to put the food down on the work surface and placed my hands on her hips. We faced each other and her body tensed as I held her. She gasped in and I moved in closer and closer until our lips touched. I pulled back slowly and her eyes were still closed. She blinked her eyes open.
“Well, Harry if that’s what wine does to you I will get it more ofte
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39According to the papers, there had been a crime committed in the local area. The report said that there had been a gruesome blood bath at a local pimp and drug dealers house. One man had his head smashed into a pulp and was dead. One man was in a critical condition and early signs were bad. If he did survive he was going to have long term brain damage. One man was reported to be doing well and on the mend. He has been cooperative with the police and given them a description. When I read that my sphincter tightened up. My stoanach churned and the contents started to rise. I shot to my feet and ran up the stairs to the bathroom.Once I was cleaned up I stumbled back downstairs. Louise came down after me. She was talking but I didn’t hear her. Not a word made it to my brain. The sound might as well have been in a different country for all I cared right now. I sat back down at the table and started at the paper. It had a artists impression of my face looking back
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41The police station isn’t a big building but it loomed over me now casting a dark shadow. Coppers walking in and out none of them seemed to even give me a second glance. This would be a huge gamble. Walking into a police station and trying to convince the police that I wasn’t the person Identified by one of the victims. When in reality I am the person they are looking for. What is the maximum amount of time you can stand in front of a police station before someone comes and asks if you are ok or need help? I have been here too long now I’m off to the pub for a pint. I can’t stand here any longer dithering.From the pub, I could see the police station across the road and I sat nursing a pint. If I had a gun I would be able to start picking off coppers left right and centre from here it would only be a short term activity. I’m under no delusions that the police wouldn’t see me sitting on a barstool in front of a huge clear glass window. Through my imaginary sights, I sta
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105It had been two years since I had read about some mad fucker called Harry. He was all over the newspapers and tv. He had scared the shit out of a town in Yorkshire. Like everything else it died down. He was wanted in connection with at least four murders. I admired how he had just disappeared into thin air. He had made a lot of mistakes though and I didn’t plan on making the same ones.I like people watching. Sitting some here public and watching people go by. Picking out my next victim. I wasn’t going to act on my urges today. It want easy to sit back and watch but it was out of sequence. If I act too fast then people will start to get jumpy. One week just one more short week and then it will be time to act.My last victim had been a child molester. I watched him for a month. He hung around schools and parks. He confirmed my suspicions one day making a move on a kid when her mum wasn’t watching talking to another mum in a park. He di
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104I wasn’t driving but being driven. Adam sat in the back strapped into a car seat. My driver was meathead, Mike. I had been told he was called Mike now. There was no pretense that this was his real name. He didn’t always respond to it when I called him it. We were on the motorway doing a perfect seventy miles per hour. There was also a car following us. That car also contained one of Nancy’s other sons. It wasn’t explained to me why we were being followed and I was nervous about it.Mike leaned over and turned on the radio.“I like some music while I drive.”A tape started playing heavy metal. Not something I would have chosen but I wasn’t going to complain. Adam started jumping about in his seat.“You like this little man?” said Mike in his usual gravely deep voice.“Yes. Louder.”Mike laughed and turned it up. He looked over to me with a grin. I don’t know if
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