Do I affect him like he affects me?
Not possible.
It’s just tension, knowing what we’re about to do.
“Now, what’s your plan?” Langston asks.
“To get your father to publicly kick us out to seal our alibi.”
“When really…?”
“He’s going to see us sneaking off to the lake behind the house.”
“Where I’ll kill him.”
I nod slowly.
Langston walks over to me. His thumb brushes just below my lower lip.
“No one will need to see your smeared makeup to think I fucked you.”
And then he takes my hand. I don’t ask him what he means. I just let him lead me out of the bedroom.
“Out,” his father’s voice says the second we leave the bedroom.
I hide my smirk at how well my plan is working.
Langston glares at his father. “We were just leaving.”
He pulls me past where his father stands in the doorway and out the front door. Our car is already waiting for us. We drive off silently, our alibi firmly in place.
Then we circle around to the back of the lake.
Langston glances at me one last time as if to thank me without actually saying the words. I completed my part of the pact, now Langston has to complete his part—killing his father.
7
Langston
“Wait here, I’ll lure my father down to the lake. I’ll come get you when it’s done,” I say to Liesel as I step out of the car.
When I exit, I hear her car door slam shut.
“I told you to stay, huntress.”
“I’m not going to sit in the car and wait like some damsel in distress. I might not participate in killing him, but I deserve to be involved. To watch. To see with my own eyes that he’s dead. I want him gone almost as desperately as you do.”
I don’t want Liesel anywhere near the danger, but more than that, I don’t want her to watch me kill—even a monster like my father. It will change everything between us.
Like everything hasn’t changed already.
I sigh.
“Fine. But don’t let him see you. Stay hidden and don’t try to help. Even if things go badly, promise me you won’t interfere.”
She bites her bottom lip as she thinks. “I promise to only interfere if he’s killing you.”
“No.”