Wasn’t she even going to make an attempt to defend herself?
Frelaine paid the driver and hurried to a drugstore. Finding a vacant telephone booth, he called ECB.
“Are you sure that a Victim named Janet-Marie Patzig has been notified?”
“Hold on, sir.” Frelaine tapped on the door while, the clerk looked up the information. “Yes, sir. We have her personal confirmation. Is there anything wrong, sir?”
“No,” Frelaine said. “Just wanted to check.”
After, all, it was no one’s business if the girl didn’t want to defend herself.
He was still entitled to kill her.
It was his turn.
He postponed it for that day, however, and went to a movie. After dinner, he returned to his room and read the ECB pamphlet. Then he lay on his bed and glared at the ceiling.
All he had to do was pump a bullet into her. Just ride by in a cab and kill her.