Dr. NoSleep

He pointed his baseball bat at me.

Where's the bitch?

I tucked my head under my hands again.

That dumb cunt upstairs said there was another bitch here.

Where is she?

As he spoke, he moved over to the stairwell door and flung it open.

A moment later, he shouted, Fuck!

Footsteps rushed down the stairs.

I heard the two men run out the front door, and I could only pray that Delia had already gotten out from under the house.

A kick to the ribs obliterated my prayer.

I curled onto my side, groaning in pain, trying to protect the painful area.

The big man asked.

I shook my head.

I said nothing, only looked up in pain, but the name rang a bell.

I couldn't place it then.

He moved over to Niko's corpse and slammed the bat down into the man's already ruined head, splattering more blood everywhere.

Screaming like a banshee, Salazar bludgeoned Niko over and over again, breaking his arms, snapping his ribs, ripping his flesh open with the dull head of the baseball bat.

After every hit, he looked over at me, eyes full of murderous glee.

I glanced at the closed front door, wondering if I could make it before he caught up to me.

I didn't think anything was broken, although my back and ribs still throbbed with breathtaking pain.