Blade In The Dark (C.O.R.P.S.E. Book 2) by Michael Anderle

Author:Michael Anderle
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2023-12-28T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

Spyder and Maris called Nadia and told her about everything that happened. She was nowhere near as happy about it as they might have assumed and loudly told them so on speaker as the pair stood in a back alley several blocks from Vorhees’ office.

“Goddammit, I told you two to contact me before you met with him in person. I could have set you up with a recording device! Are you telling me the guy confessed to murder right in front of you, and we didn’t get that recorded?”

“Yes, that’s what he said,” Maris replied. “Murder, corruption, all kinds of things. He freely confessed it all.”

“And uh, no,” Spyder replied, who was much more nervous about this conversation than she was. “We, uh, we didn’t get it.”

“Of all the shitty, awful, stupid pieces of rotten, leprous luck a journalist can have. I must be cursed. That’s it. I must be cursed!”

They let her go on like that for a while. It seemed rude to interrupt her, and it would have been useless to talk to her when she was that angry in the first place. Her rant was so extensive and creative that Maris took the opportunity to expand her lexicon of phrases to use in extreme anger. Finally, Nadia paused for a breath, and Spyder had a chance to say something.

“Look, I can do some work on the burner. When we get a call for this extra work he’s talking about, we can probably trace the call. Maybe right back to Vorhees.”

“That’s good.” She sighed, although it didn’t sound like she thought it was all that good. “I expect Vorhees will work through intermediaries to create some plausible deniability. That’s why guys like him hire operatives like yourselves in the first place, you know?”

Spyder winced at being called an operative. Maris didn’t mind because that was how professional assassins were usually referred to, so it didn’t seem unusual to her. Also, she wasn’t sure Vorhees would be smart enough to think about plausible deniability. How smart could he be when he boasted about murders to anyone who came into his office?

“What do we need from him to take him down?” Maris asked.

The question calmed Nadia down, if only by giving her something practical to focus on.

“We need evidence that Vorhees confessed to these things, or we’ll need him to say them again. That will be difficult since someone like Vorhees is unlikely to work directly with you two now that you are in his pocket and doing his dirty work.”

“Really?” Spyder asked. “He met us in person this time without a second thought. His staff gave us hot chocolate and mint cookies.”

“That special treatment was only for when he needed to find a way to use you. He wanted to see you and suss you out for himself. Don’t you get it? Now, he’s likely to be much more careful, keeping you at arm’s length.”

“I’m not sure that’s true,” Maris countered. “He didn’t strike me as a careful man.

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