Chapter 98
NINETY-EIGHT
Midnight Ridge
Fuck that bitch Mabel.
He never should have reconnected with her. But at one time, he’d been able to control her and after her downward spiral into depression and alcohol, he’d had the perfect opportunity to sink his teeth into her.
He knew her Achilles heel and used it against her. She’d wanted a baby more than anything in this world. So badly she’d na?vely ignored the details of his plan until it was too late. Not that he’d revealed the part about killing the girls.
When she’d realized that, she’d tried to get out of it.
But greed had gotten to her in the end. Not for money but greed for a kid.
He pressed a rag to his arm where she’d sliced him with that kitchen knife. It stung like crazy and he’d bled like a mother the entire way back to the lodge.
He had more ketamine that he could take for the pain. But that shit made you crazy and with the cops hunting him, he couldn’t take the chance on being incapacitated.
Not that they knew who he was. But he couldn’t be too careful.
At least tonight with the whiteout conditions and power outage, no one would bother him up here at the lodge.