She was there. He'd busied himself tidying the apartment, feeding Mr Biggles and replaying the night's events in his head to allow Hannah time to respond rather than simply sitting impatiently, cursing her as time crawled past. When he heard the ping of arriving message from across the room, it raised goosebumps on his skin.
Whilst the memory and sensations of the night's savaging of Ellie Shaw remained fresh, the aftereffects were different from any he'd experienced before because her murder hadn't been perpetrated solely to satiate his own needs, but done as not much, if not more, for Hannah. It's why he'd taken her on the Campus grounds.
That location hadn't allowed him the same time or privacy as he'd had with Cherise and the others, and as he'd brutalised, Hannah McKay had been in his thoughts. Not as a potential replacement for Ellie, but in contemplation of her reaction once she discovered he was a man of his word and that a once vivacious and attractive young woman lay raped, dead and humiliatingly displayed at her behest. Would that reality turn her on even further?…show more content… Otherwise, he's have fully savoured the prolonged torture of his prey, snatching Ellie and taking her to a more private location where she'd still most likely be alive, albeit even more damaged than he'd left her corpse by the
