Chapter 75

“You want water?” I asked her coldly. She nodded her head so violently I thought it was going to fall off.

“Well I can’t give you any? Or scratch that. Steven get her a glass of water.” 

Steven filled a glass with water and handed it to the nurse. She grabbed the cup with shaking hands but she was too unsteady to hold on to it. The glass fell from her hand, landed on the floor and broke into a thousand pieces. She stared at it in horror. The swelling in her throat was increasing at an astounding rate.

“I was ready to offer you salvation but you threw it away. So sad.” I cupped my jaw and pouted my lips.

Amanda thrashed about for a whole minute before the swelling in her throat got so big that she could not draw breath. She died with her eyes almost popping out of their sockets and blood seeping out of every hole on her face. There was a stench in the air that was so bad that I did not need a detective to know where it originated from.

“Take her away.” I