He watched her carefully, and when she closed her eyes, he knew that he had to talk fast. “Angel, honey, you have to help me here. This can’t wait. If it were not for the personal angle, against you, I would not ask. There are only so many stops between you and the last body, we are running out of time. We have about five to seven days before the next body should turn up. With what I can figure, we have only two to three weeks before he makes it here, to you. Unless he changes his pattern, which I think can only escalate.”
She lowered her head, sighing. He was right if in fact they were headed after her. There was no sense in the number of young women who were dead, being a Masters’ student with red hair and green eyes were their only crime. It was not fair to them; it was just so hard to go back to this!
“Fine, I’ll help. However, this will be the last time I will EVER do this, do you hear me? Never will I be in this position again. And, when I disappear again, just leave me alone and do not come looking for me.”
Johnnie knelt beside her and pulled in her close. “You got it, babe. No more after this one. If it were not for the fact that I think he is after you, I would not be asking this of you now. But, know this; if you run off again, I will come looking for you. I hated the last year and a half of not knowing. It was not a good time for me.”