Kill Him Nine Times Chapter 03
He stared at me like he’d seen a ghost.
Genevieve burst out laughing.
“You’ve been trailing after him for years. Did you really think it would ever be your turn?”
“Matteo only keeps you around as my stand-in. Did you really think you mattered?”
The others chimed in.
“You’ve got some nerve.”
“Take a good look at yourself. You think you deserve to be with Matteo?”
“With your background, you’re lucky he even lets you hang around.”
Matteo slowly came to his senses and shouted at me, “Cosima Vale, I said no, and you pushed me off a roof!”
“What the hell are you? How could I ever like a woman like—”
I tilted my head.
“So that’s a no?”
The rest of his words caught in his throat.
His eyes filled with shock.
He looked down and saw the jagged neck of a broken bottle already buried in the side of his neck.
Blood sprayed.
Genevieve, still pressed against him, was splattered with it.
The room went silent for a second.
Then the screams exploded.
“She killed him!”
“Call 911!”
“Cosima, stay away from me! I’m not even that close with Matteo!”
“You killed him—you’re not coming for me next, are you?”
“Genevieve was the one who called you! She wanted to see you humiliated! This has nothing to do with me!”
Matteo’s eyes were wide open.
He couldn’t believe it.
He’d only been back for a minute, and I’d already killed him again.
The system was losing its mind.
“How could you kill him again?”
I corrected it.
“He’s not the protagonist.”
He was just a privileged asshole.
He wore the skin of a protagonist, but all he did was drain my life away.
So.
Love you, Matteo. See you in the next loop.