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Epilogue

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Once upon a time, a monster was born. Born with only one purpose, one obsession, one motive. To love Lucy Sommers. And if she didn’t love him back, he’d steal her miserable soul from the world which hated her.

As he rolled the exquisite diamond earrings in his hand, the glimmer and beauty reminded him of how intoxicating she was on the stage. The way she moved for him, a sensual creature who’d never known a man. Pure. Innocent. His.

Until she wasn’t. Until he was forced to put a bullet through her pale skin, watching her breasts coat in blood.

He missed the way Lucy tasted, her pussy and her tears. The sweet scent of her long hair and perfume. He missed her fear, the screams and pleas for mercy. The way she clawed and fought hoping to live just one more day. The satisfaction when she fell to her knees, raw and defeated. He missed it all. His beautiful diamond.

But Lucy Sommers wasn’t the only poor soul he wreaked hell upon. No, there was one broken and vengeful soul he unwittingly let get away. And now he stood, blocking the door, yet another sawed-off shotgun in his capable hillbilly hands.

“You don’t remember me, do you?” Jonny asked, a toothpick between his snarling lips.

The monster couldn’t help but laugh, realizing the error he’d made, realizing there would be no more chapters in his sadistic life. The knife, hooked to the man’s belt, dripping with blood, told him he was now all alone.

“What do you want?” the monster asked, callous and cold.

Jonny’s eyes narrowed, his finger itching on the trigger.

“To let Nicole, Romeo and Lucy rest in peace knowing you’re dead.”

The monster scoffed. “You don’t know anything.”

Smiling, a delighted Jonny, pulled a letter from his plaid pocket and read it aloud.

Dear Jonny,

If you receive this letter and you don’t hear from me again, know this…”

The monster listened to Lucy’s cruel words. The hate, the spite, as she blamed him for everything. He closed his fists tightly around the diamond earrings until they bit into his flesh, thankful after all that he’d put the bullet through her pale skin.

“What can I say?” the monster smirked. “I enjoyed every second of it.”

Jonny too smiled, but his was for a very different reason. “I thought you’d say that.”

The sound of the shotgun would be heard throughout the quiet neighborhood, not one soul realizing the monster had been successfully hunted. Thrown backward off the desk he’d sat perched upon, he watched as the diamond earrings fell like snow, slowly, glimmering under the light above, ripped apart from him the same way Lucy had been. He hit the floor first, one earring coming to rest before his eyes, slowly followed by the other.

On a fateful night, a ghost from the past revealed himself, but this time, the ghost wasn’t a monster. Just a wronged man seeking justice for those so cruelly taken from the world.

Jonny Baker had sought his revenge.

And as Dominic Salvatore bled out and gasped for air caused from a bullet to the lung, he was finally given the slow death that was promised.

As the door closed behind Jonny, leaving the monster all alone, there was one thing that played on his mind while he took his last, shaky breaths.

Lucy Sommers. His greatest love. His beautiful diamond.

The broken girl he swore he’d find again.

THE END

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