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“I’ve given up on hope,” she said quietly, then lifted her chin. “From now on, I fight.”
“After years of seeking, I thought I would never have Hope again. But today, everything changed. She calls herself a Warrior now. But to me, she will always be . . . The One That Got Away.”
He had slithered from her nightmares into her waking life.
She owed him eleven years’ worth of retribution. This time, she would pay her debt in full before he finished with her.
“Killers may fantasize about their crimes for quite some time before acting on them. Usually a series of circumstances or events converge in a way that spurs action.
Serial killers were defined as having at least three victims, with a chronological or psychological separation between each event. Mass murderers were characterized as killing at least four individuals in one incident. Finally, spree killers had two or more victims in different locations with no de-escalation period between.
Like so many others in her life, they had abandoned her.
In order to catch the monster, she would have to drag those pieces—and the pain that came with them—out from where she had carefully stowed them and into the light.
Past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior.”
More than anyone else alive, she knew what the monster could do with a length of rope.
This guy doesn’t answer to a higher power. In his mind, he is the higher power.”
He makes his victims beg. He’ll offer them mercy, only to refuse it after they comply with his demands. He wants to control everything they do, including when and how they die.”
No agent has ever been shown being tortured and then gone out to investigate their torturer.”
So be it. She would defeat him. Or die trying.
She had become a warrior who no longer had to fight her battles alone.
