Foul Is Fair by Hannah Capin

Author:Hannah Capin [Capin, Hannah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780241404980
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2020-01-15T15:00:00+00:00

Mortal Thoughts

I put the knife at the foot of Mack’s bed. When it leaves my hand all the energy pours out of my fingertips with it.

I’m shaking.

I lock myself in the bathroom. A light from outside shines in and turns the wide mirror to a movie screen.

The stage is mine. Vengeance Paid, starring Jade Khanjara—

last week Elle, pretty name, but not as pretty as you, platinum blond and dressed in white—

last week that little whore with the jade-green eyes, caught and clawing—

this week new girl, twisted bitch, we’d be power, revenge-black hair and a rosy pink flock-girl shirt and a skirt too short for Duncan to ignore—

this week partners in greatness, I’ve never loved anyone more, with a boy strung so tight around my fingers and my heart that he’ll kill for me.

Kill for her.

I’m not just a girl anymore. Tonight I’m only cruelty. No pity. No mercy. No fear of what comes next.

I bring the darkness close. It sifts smoky around me and clings to my skin. No one living and no one dead will find my heart tonight.

No one will see where the dagger finds its wound.

Not until it’s done.

Outside the door Mack paces. He whispers thoughts he shouldn’t speak—

thoughts I’d hear even if he didn’t say them out loud at all—

whispers, Is that the knife?

I say, yes.

He says, I see his blood.

I say, you will.

He says, The whole world’s asleep.

I say, The whole world is dead.

He says, I hear him breathing.

I say, His time is up.

The clock chimes out its death-knell. Two long cold clangs.

He says, I’m going now. It’s done.

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