Gabrielle knew the end was near. Every time he came at her with the knife, she thought this time, he was going to cut. He spoke, but she couldn’t make out the words anymore. The man was deranged. Insane. Talking about a man called Karl. About her father. Cursing them, then cursing her, then trying again to explain that he’d done it all for her. Didn’t she see? No, she didn’t. All she knew was that he was about to kill her. And the police did nothing. Her mom knew it too. And as he talked on and on, the blade at her throat, her mom slowly got off the couch, her hands still handcuffed behind her
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