A Mad Reed Security Christmas by Lagomarsino Giulia

Author:Lagomarsino, Giulia
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-17T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

Cap

“Did you see the news?” Alec asked as he stormed into my office.

“What?”

“The news. Did you see it?”

I shook my head as he walked over to the TV and flipped on the news. My eyes widened in surprise when I saw the report of the senator being gunned down in his own home. Police cars were everywhere. His staffers were demanding justice. But the thing that caught my attention was the fact that another senator was implicated in his murder.

“Well, I guess your problems are solved,” I said, wondering if he was thinking the same thing I was, that it wasn’t a senator that had taken this guy out.

“This wasn’t another fucking senator that did this,” he growled. “Where is he?”

I sighed and pushed back my chair, walking over to the TV to watch the newscast. “I don’t know.”

“He’s been gone for a fucking week,” Alec spat. “This isn’t how we handle this shit.”

“I know,” I snapped. “I don’t know where the fuck he is.”

“Reid’s mother isn’t at the house. Did he kill her too?”

“Look, let’s just wait before we jump to conclusions. We don’t-”

I stopped talking when I saw her picture fill the screen and then more police tape at a different location. It was a motel outside of town.

“Melanie Brantley was found dead about an hour ago at this motel about a mile from her home. There’s no word yet on her cause of death,” the reporter said.

I shut off the tv and sighed. “Look, let’s just wait for him to get back and-”

“Wait for who to get back?”

I spun around to see Knight leaning against my door frame. “Get in here and shut the door.”

He did as I asked, but didn’t move any closer. His eyes were dark and his posture rigid, ready for a fight. This was the Knight I met a long time ago; a version of this man I had hoped to never see again.

“What did you do?”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“Yes, you fucking do. Don’t pull that shit with me. We had a deal.”

“So fucking fire me.”

Alec walked over to him, getting in his face. “You killed the mother too?”

He shrugged. “Believe what you want.”

“He doesn’t need that kind of guilt,” Alec shouted. “I wanted the fucker dead too, but I was going to blackmail him instead, because the minute Reid finds out about this, he’s gonna think it’s his fault. I told him I would take care of it. How the fuck am I supposed to get him to trust me now? I’m supposed to expect him to go from an abusive home to one where people just go around killing anyone they want?”

“Maybe he’ll be grateful,” Knight growled.

“And his mother?” I asked.

“Maybe she didn’t want to leave her husband,” he said, as if he had no clue about any of it.

“Knight, what the fuck am I supposed to do now? You swore that you wouldn’t go on any more revenge killings. You swore to Kate!”

“I’ll deal with Kate.”

“You

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