The Games of the Heart
I pull my eyes open and slap his cheeks, a deceptively gentle touch, knowing that any more force could send him hurtling into the abyss of death.
“The name,” I demand; my patience wore thin after an hour of this dance, broken only by the stolen glimpse of Andrea as she left.
“Irina Petrova,” he rasps, the name falling from his bloodied lips like a final prayer.
“You see, that wasn’t so hard,” I say, my hand moving behind my back, fingers curling around the familiar grip of my gun. “Now you can die in peace.” I pull the trigger, my eyes closing as his blood paints my skin in a warm, visceral spray.
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