she allows the situation to continue for a few more weeks while working on countermeasures. watching the videos she is strangely aroused while being disgusted at the same time, and it makes her feel ashamed. she needs to be able to make her own decisions. what he is doing to her is without a doubt rape, but proving it to the authorities may be quite difficult, which is why she uses a different approach. from the video, she learns that he drinks some of the wine as well as some of the cognac and spills the rest into the sink. after the first discovery, she had also pointed a video cam out the window to observe his moves, learning that the first thing he does after leaving her building is light a cigar and keep walking.

she prepares a tasteless, odorless catalyst with which she coats the glasses that he favors.

on the next Saturday, after he savages her and he lights up his cigar a strange warm reaction starts to take place in his stomach. at first, it feels nice, but as it gets hotter he is starting to feel the pain. pretty soon, flames are coming out of his stomach, chest, mouth, and anus. he is trying to scream but nothing comes out. his throat has been compromised. within the span of two minutes, the fire becomes a fireball flaring up to six thousand degrees and causing his body to evaporate. the last thought he has before dissipating is that he should have probably stayed away from a fellow chemist.

she hears the loud whoosh of the combustive reaction but has no way to react to it. she just sits there looking, unforgiving, unremorseful, and unrequited.

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