Anatomy of a Killer by Romy Hausmann

Author:Romy Hausmann [Hausmann, Romy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2023-08-02T18:30:00+00:00

‘. . . For Ann who he fucked over big time.’ I’m leaning against the work surface, my hands crossed, shaking my head in disbelief. Jakob is sitting at the table. He looks pale, wrecked by what must have been the longest night of his life. The woollen blanket I’ve fetched him from the sitting room is over his shoulders like a coat. He’s warming his hands on a mug of tea. In spite of everything, he doesn’t appear in the least ashamed; while he was talking, he even managed to look me overtly in the eye.

‘As if what you did was any different.’

‘What?’

‘The way you tricked your colleagues at Big Murphy’s.’

‘Oh, I see, and for that you think I deserved this charade.’

‘I’d be very happy to discuss whether I deserved to be locked in my boot for half a day,’ he says, slamming the palms of his hands on the table and getting up. ‘I could have died, Ann!’

‘Sit. Down.’ On the work surface are a knife and my mobile, both within reach. One glance at them is enough, along with the fact that, after last night, he’s no longer able to size me up. I could be Ann who acted on impulse, or Ann who doesn’t care about anything anymore. I might call the police and report him as the intruder from last night, or thrust my knife into his chest. I could even do both, and justify the one thing as self-defence against the other. So he does what I ask and drops back on to his chair.

‘Fine. What now?’

I clench my jaws. I don’t want him to know how I feel. That I can hardly believe how we got into this situation. Him lying there, yesterday evening, at the bottom of our stairs. Me kneeling over him, expecting to discover Marcus Steinhausen’s face beneath the balaclava. Instead it was Jakob, my friend. We’d danced together to Lou Reed. We’d circled like aeroplanes in a blue summer sky. Jakob the traitor. He scratched the record and broke my wings.

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