Beyond Doubt by Kit Rocha

Author:Kit Rocha [Rocha, Kit]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kit Rocha
Published: 2017-05-30T07:00:00+00:00

Laurel

It was starting to feel normal, looking at the world through the crosshairs of a scope.

The guy in the alley below her moved slowly, and Laurel tensed. Some people had a sense for when they were being watched, and she’d even met a few who seemed to feel when a sniper had a bead on them. But her target was strolling along with the laziness of a man with no worries, like he hadn’t a care in the world.

And why shouldn’t he? He’d been getting away with murder for months.

Okay, not actual murder, but the next worst thing. According to her sources, he’d built up a handy scam--offering his services as a scout to terrified city folk who wanted out. They’d been so traumatized by the recent civil war that they were eager to pay someone to find mountain communities willing to accept new arrivals. And this shady fucker, who operated under at least a dozen aliases she’d managed to uncover, took their money and never looked back.

It never would have flown in Sector Three. Even if Six didn’t shut him down immediately, people there talked. A couple days on the grapevine, and this motherfucker’s ready supply of marks would dry up, leaving nothing but stony looks and doors slammed in his face. If they didn’t exact their own form of mob vengeance for his sins.

The people in Eden didn’t have that sort of community. They couldn’t talk to their neighbors, especially about something as personal and risky as fleeing the war-torn city. It was sad, and it was wrong...and just thinking about it got Laurel’s finger twitching on the trigger of her rifle.

Not yet.

He was still in shadow, and she needed to see his face. She had to know that she was punching a couple of well-deserved holes in the right person.

He stepped into a heavy pool of light near the end of the alleyway, but the pressure in Laurel’s chest didn’t ease. If anything, it tightened, constricting her lungs. She could squeeze the trigger right now and erase this stain from existence. It would be so goddamn easy--

The thought locked her trigger finger. Easy was what let this guy run his scams like it was nothing. He took their money and never looked back, because looking back was hard as hell. And maybe he couldn’t do it if he had to see the desperation that had led them to him in the first place deepen into panic as they realized they’d lost everything.

Or maybe he could. Maybe it was nothing to him, and he deserved this bullet more than even she could fathom.

Still, Laurel slipped her finger off the trigger and watched through the scope as he knocked on a steel door at the end of the alley. A small panel slid open, and he exchanged a few words with the person inside before passing a credit stick through the panel. It slid shut, and the door opened.

She watched her prey saunter into the underground brothel, only looking away when the heavy door slammed shut behind him.

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