All the air rushed out of Beth when she hit the wall. Her head connected with the plaster in a sickening way. All she could do was slide to the floor and watch, dazed.
Abbott grabbed the knife from the floor and gestured at her with it. “Don’t move!”
Beth, for the moment, thought he had no worries. The connection between her brain and her legs seemed to have been broken.
Then everything happened so fast, it all seemed so unreal. Beth felt as though she were watching a movie.
Mark could do nothing but stand in frozen horror. He had time only to put up his hands in futile self-defense as Abbott advanced on him with the butcher knife.
Yes, it’s all a movie. Sure. Abbott is Ray Liotta. The knife is a trick thing—rubber. It collapses back into the handle when pressed. That’s all. Sure. And
