Page 235 of Claim Me
Edgar.
I get this strange conviction that I have finally solved it.
He’s the key, the person who needs to be eliminated first.
Still, if anything is going to happen, we need to push the first piece forward.
Marcel slowly turns toward Blue, as if the idea is starting to appeal to him. His laughter shifts into a more ironic edge.
"A kiss with the enemy? Sounds like a movie title. Why not. Maybe I will grant you that last wish."
He straightens and starts walking toward Blue, while in my head solutions keep spinning.
The outline of a plan, hovering at the edge of my perception, is pushing forward now more insistently.
It’s like a flash of vision.
The kiss situationcan set the first domino in motion!
So I speak out loud.
"Baht, exclamation mark, cross mark, euro… h-bar, exclamation mark, mill sign."
If decoded correctly, it forms a word ‘bite him’.
Marcel is already halfway leaning over Blue, whose calm face is tilted up as if he is about to accept the kiss without resistance.
But Marcel stops.
He hesitates. Did he decode what I said? That is what I am counting on. Marcel is not stupid and it's complex enough that he will treat it as my hidden message to Blue, not bait for him to take…
But it is.
He stays silent for a moment, his eyes drifting somewhere above Blue’s head.
"I changed my mind. I don't think you deserve your last wish after all. You're a treacherous bastard!"
He narrows his eyes and I pray he does the one incredible thing…
"I would rather do something you will hate. As my farewell gift to you, you stupid bitch…"
Then he slowly turns toward Edgar and fixes him with his eyes.
"Rape him," Marcel says suddenly, pointing at Blue.
Oh.
Wow.
That actually worked. As awful as it sounds, as sick, and as much as I do not want Edgar anywhere near Blue, the other scenarios give us no chance of survival.
But this one… gives us a fair chance.
Well… not the rape itself, of course. It won’t come to this. But what would have to happen just before that.
Touching Edgar.
If everything works out, in this setup, the only person left for me to take down would be Marcel.
