Chapter 20: Undeniable Cruelty
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The corners of Paul's mouth stretched to his ears and he cracked his knuckles. The chair he sat in muttered as he leaned back and laced his fingers behind his head.
"You look extremely pleased with yourself." Karma said sliding over the wood of his desk. "What'd you do, kill a nun?"
"No, better," Paul replied. "I just enjoy building up people's hope, only to dash it to pieces."
Karma bit into a red apple. It's blood ran down the side of her mouth and she whipped it off with her thumb. "What'd you do?"
"I let Dakota wake up for a few moments, then dragged him back to sleep. If I can't kill him now I can at least torture him and the ones he loves." Paul rested his feet on the desk. "I have near complete control over him."
"Well we have something to discuss," Karma said scooting closer to him.
He put his arm around her waist.
"What is it?"
"Xander."
"Why, he can work from the inside, he's perfectly capable of helping himself." Paul said, "He's weak."
"How do you mean?" He rubbed her bare thigh.
She flicked him away and stood, arching her back like a cat. "Those people have something over us Paul, besides the fact that you lost to David. They are nice, even to Xander." She walked to the door and spun on her heel, the red flames of her dress wrapping around her legs. "He is susceptible to turning."
Paul ran his thumb along a knife. "Then we'll have to find a way to permanently stain them in his eyes."
"How are we going to do that?"
"Wouldn't you like to know."