Hello again! I'm so excited to be part of Six Sentence Sunday! It's been a lot of fun so far! This excerpt is from 'LeeAnn Vaughn: A Way With Murder' again.
Last week, we met Arnold Longfield, a despicable, callous husband who's planning to murder his wife. This week, he's just injected her with succinylcholine. He already called 911 and carried her to the bathroom while waiting for them to respond. He plans to tell them she's suffering from an asthma attack.
He knelt down beside Lenore and looked directly into her eyes. “What’s that, dear? You can’t breathe?” He chuckled as he placed his fingers under her chin and tilted her face up towards his. “Don’t worry. An ambulance is on the way. You hang in there a little longer, okay?”
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26 comments:
A chilling snippet! Good one!
With husbands like that...makes me relieved I'm single! Great work here. Since I have asthma, this made me reaching for my inhaler just in case!
Interesting, I wonder in whose point of view this is...
It's from the point of view of the woman's husband. He's the murderer.
Love how you shown so much cruelty, sociopathic behavior with a tilt of the chin. I'm hooked.
That's really creepy, the way he chuckles and pretends like he can't hear her. Gave me a shiver.
He gets extra creepy marks for mocking his wife while he's murdering her.
Isn't he a nasty one! Great snippet.
Totally chilling and evil! I love it!
Oh wicked! I love this. Well done! Chilling!
Chuckled??? awful man!
Great suspenseful six!
yikes, He is one bad dude
Despicable villain!
(Although the Kenny Rogers in the background does kind of make me inadvertently giggle.)
He is not nice, laughing while she's choking. How did he actually kill her? You completely skipped that part.
One word comes to mind--more.
Oh no! Hope she nails him good!
He's evil. I hope he gets what he deserves before the conclusion in the story. (I'm sure that's the plan.)
Intriguing evil character! Fantastic job getting his twisted personality across.
You handled this chilling excerpt very well.
Cold, evil man. Wow.
Eeeeep!
(okay, this is funny, my word verification is "crones". He may be a man, but he's acting like an old witchy witch)
Nice snippet. I mean super creepy and I could feel the tension. Nice job.
Evil, evil man.
Very cold, chilling, snippet. Great six capturing your villian's character.
Oh, hang in Lenore!
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