Blood, Love and Lies by Brooke Sivendra

Author:Brooke Sivendra [SIVENDRA, BROOKE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Brooke Sivendra

Asher

Asher looked up when the door opened.

“Can I come in?” Jesse asked.

“Sure,” Asher said, but truthfully he didn’t want to speak to anyone. They’d taken Noah’s body in the early morning hours, and Asher had been sitting at Noah’s desk ever since. The pain was unbearable—not to mention his head was pounding. Asher had no doubt that was a combination of grief, exhaustion, and a hangover.

Jesse put a bottle of water on the desk and a packet of ibuprofen.

“Thanks,” Asher said.

Jesse sat opposite him. “I have again reviewed the footage we have of Noah’s room. No one entered, and no one did anything to Noah,” he said. “I was starting to believe he might have died of natural causes, so I went back over the footage and started watching Noah more closely. He seemed uncomfortable a few hours before he passed. I don’t know why he didn’t say something; maybe because he was sedated, or maybe because he was Noah and he never complained about anything. But I can see it on the tapes, and then he seemed to relax again.”

Asher frowned. “So if no one touched him, it had to be natural causes, right?”

Jesse sighed. “I saw something many years ago, and I’ve never forgotten it. I used to work in the prisons on death row.”

Asher couldn’t hide his surprise. He thought Jesse had always worked in security.

“One day,” Jesse continued, “the doctor began the process. At first, everything looked fine. But then the prisoner started reacting strangely, and his vitals were erratic. His death was slow and painful, and did not go according to plan. It took us a while to work out what had happened. Eventually we discovered that the medication bags we’d been given had been tampered with.”

“What are you saying?” Asher asked.

“There are very few silent killers, Ash, but if they take a toll on the victim, they normally get everyone around the victim too—this is true of carbon monoxide and other poisons. I was in and out of Noah’s room all day or right outside his door. If no one went in there, something else had to be at play. I tested his saline bags and the results came back. I’ve informed the King, and now I’m here.”

He took a deep breath. “The remnants of the bag indicated it was morphine. Noah was administered a lethal dose via his intravenous line. Once I knew this, I went back to the company we order the supplies from. I spent the morning reviewing their security footage, only to realize it had been tampered with. A section had been deleted—someone didn’t want to be seen on the footage. But I’m going to find out who that person is. I owe Noah this,” Jesse said.

It was easy to forget that a staff member like Jesse had loved Noah too. Everyone had.

“Would he have suffered at all?” Asher asked as he held back tears.

Jesse smiled sadly. “No, he would’ve gone from an extreme high to unconsciousness. And that death

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