Alex Cross 2 - Kiss the Girls

CHAPTER 94.

KATE WAS in shocking pain, but she stayed on her feet, and finally she saw the second man in her bedroom. He swung hard and struck her in the forehead. She heard a metallic ring, and felt herself falling, toppling. Felt herself vaporizing, actually. Then her body bounced off the wooden floorboards.

Two voices were floating above her. Two monsters inside her bedroom.

Stereo nightmares.

“You shouldn't be here.” She recognized Casanova's voice. He was talking to the second intruder. The demon behind door number two. Dr. Will Rudolph?

"Yes, I'm the one who should be here. I'm not involved with this stupid bitch, am I? I couldn't care less about her. Think it through.

Be smart."

“All right, all right, Will. What do you want to do with her?” Casanova spoke again. “This is your show. Isn't that what you want?” “Personally, I'd like to eat her, a nibble at a time,” said Dr. Will Rudolph. “Is that too extreme?” They kept laughing like two buddies talking at a sports bar.

Kate felt herself fading away from the scene. She was leaving. Where was she going?

Will Rudolph said that he bought her flowers. They both began to laugh at the joke. They were hunting together again. No one could stop them. Kate could smell their body odor, a strong male musk that seemed to combine into an overpowering presence.

She stayed conscious for a long time. She fought with all her strength. She was stubborn, willful, proud as hell. The light finally went out for her like a tube in an old-fashioned TV set. A blurry picture, then a small dot of light, then blackness. It was that simple, that prosaic.

They turned on the bedroom lights when they were finished, so that all of Kate Mctiernan's admirers could have a last good look at her.

Murdered beyond cold blood.