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  “Well I think we need to change that,” Lisa said. “Change is good and you never know maybe I can be the one to spice up your life.”

  Reggie chuckled. “Spice is the last thing I need in my life right about now.”

  “You sure about that?” Lisa asked with a raised brow. “What if I told you that you weren’t as innocent as you portray to be?”

  “Excuse me?”

  Lisa took another bite of her ribs. “What if I told you I followed you that night when you left the club early?”

  “Huh,” Reggie said with a confused look on his face.

  “I saw you pick up the drunk girl what’s her name? Melissa,” Lisa smiled. “She was last seen with you, then the next day her body was found chopped up in little pieces,” she bit down into her ribs again. “I know you murdered that girl.”

  Reggie let out a nervous laugh. “That’s absurd.”

  “Is it really? Uncle Sam,” she said letting it be known that she knew exactly who Reggie really was.

  Reggie wiped his mouth and leaned back in his seat. “Okay Lisa what is it exactly that you want?”

  “I want in,” she smiled.

  “I’m confused.”

  “You heard me I want in,” Lisa repeated. “I want to help you kill.”

  Reggie took a close look at Lisa’s face to see if she was serious. “How many people have you told about this?”

  “I haven’t told anyone about this...yet,” she smiled. “Listen Reggie all I want to do is help.”

  Reggie wanted to tell Lisa that he worked alone, but he knew if he did that, she would more than likely try to blackmail him into letting her onboard. He wanted to slice her throat right there in his office but he couldn’t because he had no clue if she had told anyone about his little secret. “Why are you doing this?”

  “Listen Reggie I know you like me, but you’ve been keeping me away because of your little secret,” Lisa smiled. “So now that we’re partners I was thinking maybe we could go on a date tonight a real one.”

  It was at that moment when Reggie knew that Lisa had him by the balls. “Sure dinner sounds good to me.”

  “Great, meet me at my place tonight at 11 pm,” Lisa smiled, spun, and made her exit leaving Reggie alone with his thoughts.

  Reggie sat back in his chair with a frustrated look on his face. He had to think of a clever way to kill Lisa, but first he had to make sure that she didn’t tell anyone about his little secret.

  A New Relationship

  Reggie pulled up in front of Lisa’s house and killed the engine. He glanced down at his watch the time was 11:11 pm. He rang the doorbell and a few seconds later, Lisa answered the door wearing a pair of black fish net stockings and a black see through top. Lisa held a glass of wine in her hand. “I thought you may have gotten lost for a second,” she smiled stepping to the side so Reggie could enter.

  “You have a lovely home,” Reggie said as Lisa led him over towards the dining room where he saw candles lit up all around the kitchen table. “All this for little ole me?”

  “You know what they say,” Lisa took a sip of her wine. “You only get one chance at a first impression.”

  Reggie removed his suit jacket and rested it on the back of his chair, and helped himself to a glass of wine. Lisa served ox tails, brown rice, and grilled mushrooms. “So what is it that you want from me?”

  “I want to be your partner,” Lisa answered quickly.

  “How do I know that you’re ready to take a life?” Reggie questioned.

  “Test me.”

  “This isn’t a game!” Reggie said his tone turning deadly. “Taking a life is not a game; I have a personal beef with the NYPD. I’m not just doing this for fun and games!”

  “Let me help you teach the NYPD a lesson,” Lisa begged. “I promise I’ll be a wonderful protégé.”

  Reggie sat back, took a sip of his wine, and began thinking of ways that, Lisa could be of some use. At first, he didn’t like the idea, but the more he thought about it the more he began to see the bigger picture of how he could use her to become the best and most famous serial killer of all time. “I have the perfect test for you, you pass this test, and then you can consider yourself my partner, deal?”

  Lisa stood up, walked over towards Reggie, and straddled him. She leaned forward and kissed him on the lips. “Of course we have a deal.”

  While Lisa rested on Reggie’s lap, he inhaled her perfume, and was immediately turned on. He hadn’t been with women since his wife had been murdered and could no longer resist the urge. Reggie held Lisa by the waist, and stood to his feet. Lisa wrapped her legs around his waist, as the two passionately kissed while Reggie carried her to the bedroom.

  After a long night of lovemaking, Reggie laid on the bed staring up at the ceiling while; Lisa snored lightly while her head rested on his chest. Reggie’s mind was on ways he could kind of ease Lisa into the swing of things instead of throwing her straight into the fire. She had him stuck between a rock and a hard place. Now it was time for him to find a way to turn this situation into a win- win scenario. Reggie looked over and Lisa while she slept and wondered if she had what it took to take a life, wondered if she were able to keep her mouth shut afterwards. Reggie enjoyed working alone, but since a partner was being forced on him he now had to make some serious adjustments.

  The Next Day

  “You see that house right there?” Reggie sat behind the wheel of the stolen minivan and pointed towards an average looking single family home.

  “Yeah what about it,” Lisa spat.

  “That’s the house of our next victim,” Reggie said with a no nonsense look on his face. “You ready to do this?”

  “Hold on for a second,” Lisa turned her gaze on, Reggie. “That lady lives in that house with her little two kids,” she pointed out.

  “And what’s your point?” Reggie said coldly. “If I’m going to trust you, then I need to know that you can handle yourself under pressure.”

  “I can handle the pressure, but what about the kids?” Lisa asked.

  “What about them?” Reggie said handing; Lisa a pistol with a silencer attached the barrel.

  Lisa took the gun, exited the minivan, and slowly made her way towards the house of their latest victim. She took a deep breath and rang the doorbell. Seconds later, a blonde haired woman in her late thirties answered the door with a confused look on her face. “May I help you?”

  Lisa didn’t reply, instead she pulled out her pistol and put a bullet between the blonde haired woman’s eyes. She watched as the woman’s body collapsed. Lisa then entered the house, stood over the woman’s body, and fired two more bullets into her body for good measures. Once that was done, Lisa made her way through the house in search of the two children. Lisa made her way upstairs and in the first room up ahead she spotted a young boy and girl that couldn’t have been no older than eight sitting on a bed with a PlayStation controller in each of their hands. Lisa stepped in the room and snatched the plug to the TV out the wall quickly getting the children’s attention. “On your feet!” She ordered as watched the kids do as they were told. Lisa escorted the two kids downstairs where, Reggie standing in the living room holding an ax in his hand. The children saw the man standing holding an ax and immediately busted out in tears.

  Reggie looked over at, Lisa. “Shut those kids up now!”

  Lisa aimed her gun at the little boy first. Her hand shook uncontrollably as her eyes began to water. “I can’t do it,” she lowered her gun.

  Reggie walked up with a calm look on his face; he placed a friendly hand on, Lisa’s shoulder. “It’s okay.”

  “I’m sorry but this is a little too much for me,” Lisa admitted.

  “I understand,” Reggie said. Without warning, he turn and swung the ax as if it was a baseball bat. Lisa looked on in horror as the little boy’s head hit the wall then roll across the floor.

  Reggie then turned his attention on the little girl. Lisa had to shut her eyes; she didn’t have
the heart nor the guts to take a child’s life. She was beginning to realize that she might have been in a little over her head. Lisa sat in the kitchen trying to get her head together but was having a hard time doing that as she could still hear, Reggie in the other room chopping up the kids bodies. Lisa was thinking about jetting out the front door when, Reggie entered the kitchen covered in blood.

  “What happen back there?”

  Lisa wiped the tears from her face and took a deep a breath. “I’m sorry I wasn’t ready for this tonight, maybe you should have started me off with something a little more easier.”

  “It’s okay,” Reggie said as he draped his arm around, Lisa’s shoulder as they made her way back to the stolen minivan.

  Unbelievable

  Anthony Stone pulled up to the crime scene and from how many reporters and news vans were parked outside, he knew it had to be bad. Anthony Stone stepped foot inside the house and couldn’t believe his eyes. He walked over to another officer. “Tell me that’s not what I think it is in there!” He growled. “Tell me those are not children’s body parts in there!”

  “We have to find this guy before he can strike again,” the officer said with a serious look on his face. Anthony Stone entered the other room and it took everything in him not to throw up.

  “Detective we found this,” another officer said handing Anthony Stone an envelope. He looked down and saw that the envelope was address to him. Anthony Stone opened the envelope and began reading.

  “Hello Anthony Stone the purpose of this letter is to let you know that the gloves are off and I’m done playing with you. You want to stick your nose in Uncle Sam’s business, now you are Uncle Sam’s business. You now have a front row view...hope YOU enjoy the show.

  Sincerely yours: Uncle Sam.”

  “I want this entire house dusted for prints!” Anthony Stone ordered. This Uncle Sam character was really starting to piss him off. Anthony Stone knew if he planned on catching the serial killer, then he would have to keep a leveled head and not run off of his emotions. This was turning into an intense chess match. There was something different about this crime scene, all of Uncle Sam previous murder victims had been all females. Anthony Stone found something funny about finding the dead children inside the house, something about this wasn’t right and he planned on getting to the bottom of it.

  Explain

  Reggie and Lisa sat in a booth in the back of a fancy restaurant downtown enjoying a nice dinner. After what happened the other night, neither one of them wanted to address the situation, but unfortunately, it had to be addressed. “What happen the other night?” Reggie asked taking a sip of his wine.

  “Sorry, I saw those kids and kind of freaked out,” Lisa apologized. “For it to be my first time I wasn’t expecting that I thought you were going to kind of like ease me in there.”

  “I figured we might as well get the hard part out of the way first,” Reggie smiled. “Are you sure you want to do this?”

  “Yes of course,” Lisa answered quickly. The last thing she wanted was for Reggie to think that she couldn’t handle the pressure of taking a human life.

  Reggie took another sip from his wine. “How many people did you tell about my little secret?”

  “I didn’t tell anyone,” she told him. “What would they think of me if I continued to work at the club knowing what I know?”

  “True,” Reggie finished off his drink only to refill his wine glass back to the top. “If you’re going to work with me then you’re going to have to keep your mouth shut and you can’t be scared to take a life, this is what I do.”

  “How can you be around all that blood like that and it not bother you?” Lisa asked.

  “It takes time baby.”

  “Oh, I’m your baby now?” Lisa blushed.

  Reggie returned her smile. “Of course you are,” he lied just to keep her comfortable. He had to keep her feeling comfortable and wanted so she wouldn’t roll over on him. “You think we would be at this nice restaurant if you weren’t my baby?” He said laying it on thick.

  “I’m just happy that you’re not mad at me about what happen the other night,” Lisa breathed a sigh of relief.

  “I’m not mad but the next time we go out hunting you better be ready,” he said with a raised brow.

  “I promise you I won’t mess up like I did the last time,” Lisa promised thankful to be giving another opportunity to prove herself.

  Reggie smiled. “You see that lady over there?” Lisa turn and saw women entering the restroom.

  “That lady going to the restroom?”

  Reggie nodded. “I want you to go and in the bathroom and put a bullet in her head.”

  Immediately, a look of nervousness came over Lisa’s face. “Huh? You want me to kill her now? In the restaurant?” She whispered.

  Reggie pulled out a .380 with a silencer attached to the barrel and slid it to, Lisa under the table. “You don’t have much time.”

  Lisa took the gun, stuck it down inside of her pocket book, then stood up and quickly headed towards the restroom.

  Reggie sat back with a smirk on his face as he continued to sip from his glass of wine. “This should be good,” he said to himself.

  * * *

  Lisa entered the bathroom and was happy when she noticed that she and her target were the only ones in the restroom at the time. Lisa quickly pulled the .380 from her pocketbook, afraid that someone was going to bust in while she was committing a murder she moved quick. Lisa walked over towards the stall that her target occupied. She entered the stall next to her target, stood on the toilet seat, looked over to the next stall, and saw the woman letting out some food that must not have upset her stomach. Lisa stuck her arm over in the next stall and said, “Hey!” When the lady looked up, Lisa pulled the trigger dumping three bullets into the lady’s face. She quickly climbed off the toilet, stuck the gun back inside of her pocketbook, and exited the restroom like normal. Lisa quickly walked back over to over to her table in the cut with a nervous look on her face. “It’s done, now come on we have to go!” She said in a harsh whisper. Reggie smiled as he slowly stood to his feet, dropped a few bills down on the table, grabbed Lisa’s hand, and led her out of the restaurant.

  When Reggie and Lisa stepped foot inside Lisa’s apartment, Reggie roughly grabbed her and slammed her against the wall. Before Lisa could even say a word, Reggie stuck his tongue in her mouth as the two enjoyed a long drawn out sloppy kiss. Lisa taking that woman’s life in the restaurant had turned Reggie on. He aggressively ripped Lisa’s blouse open and kissed all up and down her neck while removing her bra all at the same time. Once Lisa’s bra was off, Reggie popped one of her breast in his mouth like a savage.

  “Mmm!” Lisa moaned loudly as she hopped up on, Reggie locking her toned legs around his waist as he carried her into the bedroom and slammed her down on the bed. Reggie lifted Lisa’s skirt up and forcefully tore her thong off of her bottom with his bare hands. Before Lisa got a chance to catch her breath, she felt, Reggie’s tongue on the magic button in between her legs. “Awww!” She pure with her head back in ecstasy.

  Reggie licked, Lisa’s warm, wet slice nice and slow like this would be his last time ever tasting a woman again. He worked his tongue like a lizard as felt, Lisa’s body squirming under him. Reggie rolled his tongue back and forth on, Lisa’s clit until he felt her legs violently clamp around his neck. He found pleasure in her body jerking uncontrollably under his touch. Reggie slid his way in between, Lisa’s legs and slid inside her. “Hmmm!” He groaned as the heat and the wetness from Lisa’s vagina had him in another world. Reggie pinned, Lisa’s back towards her head and did pushups on top of her as his rod dipped in and out of her wetness. Reggie worked his hips like a Latin dancer as he plunged in and out of Lisa.