Chapter 37: Confrontation HER Looking through the window, I saw one of my worst nightmares come true: the monster, I had been hunting for more years than I wanted to remember, was in the same room as my love.... Chapter 38: Awakening HER Healing from my grueling ordeal at my love’s house a week ago, I watched the news, waiting for the ruling on his death....
Chapter 34: Anticipation HIM I arrived at my home in the woods with gleeful anticipation. About a half hour into my trip, I had received a call from my man informing me they had lost her somewhere in town.... Chapter 35: Determination HER Driving along the dirt road toward the house, I turned on the car’s GPS in order to figure out how close I was to it.... Chapter 36: Interruption HIM Sharp blade in my hand, I cut into the doctor’s leg yet again. I heard his cry of pain....
Chapter 32: Capture HIM Don’t ask me why, but for some reason I thought getting hold of her would be the easiest part of the whole plan.... Chapter 33: The Message HER Going through the money that was in my wallet, I saw that I only had about fifty dollars....
Part Three: Him and Her Chapter 30: Quiet Time HER As I finally began to map out how he chose his victims, I learned exactly what kind of mastermind he actually was. His choices were not random.... Chapter 31: Escape HER Driving late at night down a fairly empty road on my way to the detective agency, I didn’t notice the cars until they’d been following me for quite a few blocks....
Chapter 28: An Appointment With Death The second I entered the room I noticed how bright it was. That made me smile again. My men had carried out my orders to the tee. I had wanted it nice and bright as I conversed with her. I knew it would confuse and disorient her.... Chapter 29: Twist in the Plan It took me a while to finish my torture session with her, but I finally did....
Chapter 26: The Transitional Period I watched her closely after the fire. I was curious to see what exactly her actions would be.... Chapter 27: Preparations After she got back into town, I watched the abrupt change in her manner toward me....
Chapter 25: Knowledge Put Into Action From my wedding day onward, my life became more exciting. I now knew who it was that had figured out my little secret and my new goal was to learn everything I could about her....
Chapter 24: Acquiring Knowledge As these many years passed, I had gotten into a good rhythm in my life. I finally joined a practice with a team of psychologists....
Chapter 21: Failure and Its Price As you have seen so far, I am a fairly tolerant person.... Chapter 22: Graduation Graduation. This had to have been the best word ever created. So much meaning was able to be packed in such a small word.... Chapter 23: Training The summer after graduation was one of my happiest times of my life. I relaxed, did absolutely nothing, and hung out with my followers and my girlfriend....
Chapter 19: The Unfortunate Death January left me with a heart broken in two.... Chapter 20: The First Murder At the approach of summer, I suddenly realized that most of my followers would be leaving town....
Part Two: Him Chapter 18: Before Life before my best friend’s death was wonderfully normal. Wait, did I say wonderfully? I meant to say mind-numbing normal. After his death, though, life became exciting....
Chapter 16: In Sheltering Arms I don’t remember anything about my first night at the doctor’s house. After my day of torture and the day of walking, I had nothing left in me. I had given everything I had to get to safety.... Chapter 17: The Eureka Moment Newly spurred on to find the key that would allow me to awaken from this endless nightmare, I redoubled my search for a mistake....
Chapter 15: Walking to Civilization The small break allotted to me made the subsequent pain worse than before. I could tell he gloried in my agony. He wanted every ounce of satisfaction out of this confrontation as humanly possible....
Chapter 14: An Appointment With Death Peacefulness. That’s the first thing I remember feeling. A profound sense of peace and rightness with the world. Here there were no killers, no minions, no unending hunt....
Chapter 13: The Search The weeks of silently daring him ended one dark summer night. I’ll start off by admitting that I got careless. Well, maybe careless isn’t the right word....
Chapter 10: Rebuilding It took me the next six months to recover from the fire.... Chapter 11: Increase in Heat While the time immediately after the fire was peaceful, I was not suckered into thinking that the abuse at his hands was over.... Chapter 12: Enmity Like all good things, my vacation had to end sometime. I couldn’t stay on the sea forever, even though sometimes I wanted to....
Chapter 8: Knowledge Put Into Action I left that wedding as fast as humanly possible. I drove home, making sure I wasn’t followed, but I knew that that wouldn’t stop him and his henchmen.... Chapter 9: Slowed I stayed outside on the sidewalk in front of my burned house until one of my fellow PI’s came and dragged me away. I had no home, no possessions....
Chapter 5: Graduation The end of our senior year was a happy and scary time all wrapped into one big ceremony.... Chapter 6: Training During that summer after graduation, except for one event, I didn’t hear a word about him.... Chapter 7: Acquiring Knowledge More time passed. I learned how to be a better PI and gradually took on cases that were more difficult....
Part One: Her Chapter 1: Before I started noticing something was wrong when his best friend died.... Chapter 2: The Trigger That February night I don’t know what I was doing. Probably what I did every night: homework, family time, sleep. Nothing real exciting.... Chapter 3: The First Death Up to this point, I haven’t properly explained why he and his eyes bothered me so much.... Chapter 4: Failure and Its Price I know, I know, you think up until now that I’ve been making things up or reading into the situation way too much....