The Killer Next Door by C.K. Brennan

Author:C.K. Brennan [Brennan, C.K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter Eleven

For an hour, I pace back and forth across my living room, frustrated by my encounter with Caroline. That should make me want to kill her. For God’s sake, Amanda angered me a single time and that’s all it took with her. Tess never even irritated me and I knew I had to kill her.

Yet this one I can’t seem to figure out, so maybe that’s why I’m not ready to take that step. It will happen. I knew it from the moment I saw her the first time right after she moved in, even if I didn’t consciously acknowledge it.

Caroline Townsend will take her last breath as I choke the life out of her.

I’ve tried all the things I know that work to keep me from acting on my desire to kill. I focused on research. I told myself someone would find out and then my life here would be over. I tried to dive into work.

None of it has worked.

I know what I have to do. I have to kill someone else. But who?

It doesn’t take me long to figure out who my next victim is. She has to deserve it. I always know my targets deserve what they get. To me, that’s important. Other killers may not have to justify their deeds, but I do.

She has to be someone I think the world can do without. That opens up the pool to many people, but I prefer to stay close to home. That’s always been how I work. I like seeing the police as they try to solve the case. I like watching the details of it all on the news. So I need someone in the neighborhood or nearby.

You’re probably thinking it’s going to be Aaron. There’s just one problem with that. He’s not a woman. Not that he doesn’t have it coming, for sure, especially after that bullshit he pulled on me the other night. Even more, I’m still not sure he doesn’t know about me and my past.

Still, I don’t kill men. Don’t ask why. I just don’t.

So that leaves only women as possible choices. Kimmy? Marilyn? Suzanne? I know this may seem hard to believe, but I think Kimmy is actually growing on me. I can’t believe it myself, but there it is. As for Marilyn, I don’t like or dislike her, so she won’t work. And Suzanne might deserve it since she’s a lawyer, but to be honest, her husband deserves to have the fucking life strangled out of him more than her. Asshole runner.

His partner in crime, so to speak, is another story entirely. The other woman who knew full well she shouldn’t have come to our party the other day and still did, even after Suzanne came home from work. Yeah, she’s got it coming in spades.

So now all I have to do is find out everything there is to know about her. What I know so far isn’t much. Her name is Sara. She’s sleeping with Jared and

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