Chapter 84: Revenge (8)
Adam vanished.
He reappeared right next to Joseph a blur of motion too fast for the human eye to follow. His knife was already moving. It drew a clean red line across Joseph’s throat.
Joseph gasped a wet gurgling sound escaping his lips. His hands flew to his neck trying to stop the flow of blood. It was useless. He collapsed to the floor his body convulsing in its final moments.
"I don’t tolerate lies," Adam said his voice a cold flat monotone. "Especially not the same lie over and over again."
Eric stared in horror. He looked from Adam to Joseph’s twitching body on the floor. He opened his mouth to scream to plead to say something. But he never got the chance.
Adam’s knife flashed again. He slit Eric’s throat with the same detached efficiency. Eric fell to the floor beside his friend his life ending in a silent spray of blood.
Adam stood over their bodies for a long moment. He watched them die a deep breath escaping his lips. He looked up at the ceiling of the silent club.
"I didn’t do anything wrong," he whispered to himself a mantra to ward off the encroaching guilt. "I just took revenge. I just took revenge."
He slapped himself hard across the face. "Why are you so worried?" he hissed. "Why do you feel regret?"
He was still grappling with the unfamiliar turmoil in his mind when he heard it. The distant sound of police sirens. They were getting closer.