Blue Rubicon by Harrison Drake

Author:Harrison Drake [Drake, Harrison]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-11-18T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

THE DRIVE TO TORONTO WAS slow, traffic on the 401 at its usual level—far higher than I wanted to see. We had plenty of time, only needing to check in for our flight three hours before departure. But the airport was in Mississauga, on our side of Toronto, and the Centre for Forensic Sciences was right in the heart of Toronto, the busiest city in Canada.

We hadn’t been on the road more than half an hour before Link and Kasia were sound asleep in the backseat, sitting on the brand new booster seats Kat had made me buy before we left the city. I couldn’t argue the logic.

“They’re already asleep,” Kat said, her head turned around staring at our two angels.

“It’s been a busy day,” I said. “I’m surprised they lasted as long as they did.”

“I’m sorry, Lincoln.”

Unexpected.

“For what?”

“Getting you kicked out of homicide. I know you loved it in there.”

“It’s fine, Kat.” The truth will set her free. “You had every right to do it.”

“I was so jealous, so worried about our marriage, and, I mean, rightly so. But I shouldn’t have messed with your job.”

“Please, you did what you thought was best for us, for them.” I turned back to look at them, Link snoring and Kasia with her mouth open. “And it was the right move.”

“None of this would have happened if I’d let it go.”

“None of this would have happened if I hadn’t cheated.”

Kat didn’t say anything. It was a valid point. We could go back and forth with the blame game, each going further back to find something we’d done wrong that had set everything in motion.

“I’m sorry, Kat. I never meant for that to happen. And there’s no excuse for it.”

“You had so much on your plate, Saunders, your past, and I wasn’t there for you. I was too worried about you killing someone, too worried about what your father might have done. Now I think I was stupid. You did the right thing as a kid, when you killed that pedophile, and you did the right thing with Saunders. You saved lives.”

I was happy she was finally seeing it that way. I found no pride or sense of accomplishment in having killed two people, but I had done it for the right reasons. I’d saved my own life, my father’s life and the lives of who knows how many children, and then I had saved the lives of at least two women. It was hard to accept, a hard lesson to learn, but it was the truth.

Some people deserved to die.

And Kat had added one to the list. The firebomber, whoever he was.

But I was done killing, I didn’t want to have to add another notch to my belt. I wanted to watch them squirm, on the other side of the courtroom, watching as their freedom hung in the balance.

I wanted to make them pay, and the longer it took the better.

Some people deserved to die, others deserved to rot.

“She seems really nice.

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