Chapter Twelve

Leon

My father once told me many years ago that I was evil and I'd believed him. I thought I could change for the better because of her but then I realized it was no fun being good all the time so I'd retained just a tiny bit of myself which had that evil streak in him.

I knew I shouldn't have goaded Elisabeth like that but she'd looked so... cute and small in her oversized shirt and black jeans that I couldn't not tease her. I'd had fun teasing her and watching her react to it without being able to do anything about it and once I latched onto something I liked doing, nothing in this world could stop me from doing that thing so I hoped for her sake that I'd get bored real soon and stop or else I would have her running for the hills before the month would end.

I looked in my rearview mirror and noticed that the smile I'd been wearing after I left her standing there in that aisle was still quite plastered on my face and I frowned. There was nothing to smile about. I'd teased her, laughe