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  “Yes.”

  “You should be,” he told her.

  “You’re going to kill me, aren’t you?”

  He laughed again. Softly.

  “Please…please…” She cried. Tears filled her eyes and trickled down her cheeks.

  He came closer. And closer. He raised the meat cleaver high over her head, then swung it across her right wrist.

  Blood splattered on the cabinet, over her head, and across her upper body as her severed right hand tumbled downward and hit the floor.

  Pain! Excruciating pain.

  And then he lifted the cleaver and swung down and across again, cutting off her left hand with one swift, accurate blow.

  Jennifer passed out.

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  ISBN-13: 978-1-84756-001-8

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