Amber Young FBI Suspense Thriller 07-Absent Life by Blake Pierce

Author:Blake Pierce [Pierce, Blake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Suspense, American Suspense, Police Procedural, Crime Thriller, FBI, Murder Investigation, Serial Killer
Published: 2024-01-09T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

He liked the ring that he'd taken from Emily. It was a beautiful piece of jewelry, with a deep green gemstone set in gold and surrounded by intricate details. He admired it for some time, taking in the craftsmanship and the quality of the workmanship. He then placed it in a glass cabinet that he kept in his room, a special place to store his trophies from his kills.

He also kept some of the other items taken from Sarah Akin and Julia Shields. He had taken a pair of earrings from Sarah and a necklace from Julia, both made with gold and silver. He was fascinated by the intricate designs on each piece, how they seemed to fit together like pieces of a puzzle.

Puzzles were important. They pointed the way to the near limitless complexity of the world, of the human mind. They also pointed very definitely to the limitations of some minds. Sarah, Julia, and Emily hadn't been good enough. Certainly nowhere near as good as they thought they were.

He hated it when people thought they were good at puzzles when they weren't. When they treated them as some casual game, they didn't give them their full attention. When they thought that, because they could solve a crossword here and there, they understood what it was to be like him.

He understood puzzles. Some days, it felt as though he was a puzzle himself. A puzzle that no one could solve. That's why he had to keep killing, to keep pushing the boundaries of what he was capable of.

He stared at the ring again, admiring the way it glinted in the light. He wondered who he would take next. He needed a new challenge, someone who might prove more interesting.

He was surprised to find that he needed them now. Before, he had been able to wait, leaving time between Julia and Sarah. Now, it felt as if the need came back almost as soon as he had finished with a kill. The need to see someone floundering in one of the rooms he constructed, the need to feel his hands around her throat.

It had been there before he had finished with Sarah. It had been there at the back of his mind, gnawing away at him, making him feel agitated and restless. It vanished briefly when he had finished with Sarah, but it came back more strongly with Emily. The desire to kill and to watch a person struggle mounted and mounted with each kill.

He tried to distract himself with a puzzle or two. He selected a new one from his collection, and he attempted to solve it. He was sure he would have little difficulty. He was the best, after all. But that was the problem. It absorbed him, it fascinated him, but when he didn't get it immediately, it frustrated him too. That frustration grew and grew until he threw the puzzle across the room, smashing it into a hundred pieces.

That was what made all of this worse.

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