Page 8 of No Small Sin

I released his weight, fearing the rod wouldn’t hold.

It held… for the time being.

It wouldn’t matter if it collapsed later, I just needed to set the scene. If gravity decided to do its thing once I was gone, the effect would be the same.

He dangled a few inches from the floor, still in a semi-seated position.

“Oh my god!” TK yelled up at me. “Do you have to touch his dick?! You do, don’t you?! That is so disgusting! I bet he has a grubby little chode!”

Ignoring her, I yanked his pants and boxers down to his mid-thigh.

I cringed at the sight. She wasn’t wrong.

“I hope he’s a grower,” I murmured, scanning the room for a laptop.

Grabbing it from his bedside table, I opened it. The main screen lit up, indicating that I would need a password. Thankfully, this one also accepted the owner’s fingerprint to log in and I knew just where to find that.

“Did you find a computer?” This girl. She was infuriating on so many levels. “Search, ‘human decanter’... I saw a video about it on TikTok and I justknowthere’s weird porn for that!”

What the fuck was that?Not something I would be googling later, that’s for sure. Luckily, I didn’t have to search for anything because Alexander had his own fucked up porn already pulled up on the screen from whenever he’d used it last.

Trying not to vomit, I placed it on the floor in front of him and hit play.

I wiped the scene clean — as if I’d never been there — and closed the door on Alexander with his dick in his hand.

TK popped to her feet once I entered the room again. I had to stifle her excitement. “The copswillcome for him,” I told her seriously. “Theywilllikely suspect foul play, or investigate in the least. You willnotpanic. I will take care of it. Whatever happens. You’ll leave here tonight and move on with your life as if none of this ever happened. As if we never met.”

She nodded slowly.

I’ll admit I didn’t want that, but I had to keep us both safe in the aftermath of whatever this was. Maybe I was an idiot for choosing to do so for countless reasons, but it was for the best. I’d covered my tracks enough times and in so many different scenarios that I felt certain it would be fine.

“I mean it, TK. What happened here was no small sin. If it eats at you, you’re going to have to shove that shit down. You may have not followed through with your own plans to end his life, but you still managed to throw yourself off the deep end in deciding to show up here tonight.”

Though I wasn’t sure what would have happened to me if she hadn’t.

“I get it,” she replied. “Thank you. Seriously. The world is a better place. There are women out there who will sleep easier at night now. Including me. Fewer women will have to live their lives afraid. They’ll hear he’s gone and breathe a sigh of relief, and it will be because of you. And that iseverythingto some of us.”

I wasn’t sure what to say to that, so I simply said goodbye… to the only person who’d ever really looked at me andseen.

As we parted ways, I couldn’t help but feel like she’d taken a small piece of me with her. I wondered if she felt the same.

CHAPTERTHREE

TK

I’d promised to pretend none of this ever happened. And I would… as far as going to the cops went.

But pretending I’d never even met him at all?

No.

Fuck that.

I couldn’t let go of what he’d done for me. Whether he’d meant to or not, Beck had done something I wasn’t sure I was capable of doing on my own, despite my best intentions.

I don’t know his reasons for seeking out Alexander, but I want to believe it had something to do with what kind of human he was and the kinds of things he did to women.

The kinds of things he would’ve done to me if given the opportunity.

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