After stroking his cock hard with eyes locked on the image of Hannah McKay on the screen, envisaging her silhouetted behind the flames and smoke of Cherise's funeral pyre, the man removed his hand, not intending to get off, but to maintain an erection until the night was done. As he liked to do with his prey, Todd loved the anticipation, often prolonging any climax as long as he could; the feelings so much more intense when he came. He'd pushed the woman a further than intended, and only when he read his reply, did Lowry become fully cognisant of the tone and not-so-subtle threats. A natural extension of his combative mindset. But why did he feel compelled to treat this particular conversation as a competition, with a woman unlike he'd ever …show more content…
Despite Todd's long-held fantasy, subconsciously he still perceived it impossible that any woman could be aroused by the infliction of pain on others and the acts he performed. Women, if they possessed a leaning one way or the other, in the vast majority of cases tended to masochists and that's not what he wanted, but empathy for and understanding of his sadistic perspective. Kinship. When that voice popped up in his head, Todd attempted to deny the impact of its meaning. He'd told Hannah that he didn't know why, didn't care, and whilst that was the truth, a deep void resided within the killer. A craving to not be alone as he had been his entire life, and that self-acknowledgement shook him to the core. The message had been a test, to see her response and further gauge if she was real, could be real, or if he'd need to swiftly shove the hope back six-feet under in the graveyard of his brain before it fully broke the surface and he was forever haunted by its ghost. "Here, Mr Biggles." Snapping his fingers, Todd Lowry pulled the cat against his chest when it jumped up into his lap to savour the warmth of it's fur and the vibrations of the feline's contented purrs against his arms, attempting to drive away the unfamiliar nervous tension that threatened to consume him. He exhaled a large sigh of relief when her response arrived, providing him a way to escape his own …show more content…
With thousands of students at her school, who he could take anytime, anywhere at his own leisure, acceding to that requirement would be easy. However, for it to take place on the campus itself added an element of premeditation that exponentially increased the chances of capture or having the authorities laying in wait, and Todd wasn't sure he trusted Hannah that much yet, particularly given the profession of her partner. He certainly wasn't going to provide a guarantee that, after further thought, he'd need to renege on and that would make him appear weak or not a man of his