Deadly Descendant by Jenna Black

Author:Jenna Black [Black, Jenna]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Speculative Fiction
ISBN: 9781451606805
Publisher: Pocket
Published: 2012-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

THIRTEEN

I wasn’t entirely shocked when my search on Justin Kerner didn’t yield any exciting results. I found out he’d been an army brat, spent much of his childhood traveling from place to place, never setting down roots. He’d continued the trend as an adult, working as a consultant, going wherever the jobs took him. In fact, he traveled so often that it took almost two months for anyone to notice when he went missing from his home in Alexandria five years ago. He’d only moved in a few weeks before and hadn’t even bothered to introduce himself to his neighbors.

He was still officially listed as missing, and the police had made zero progress in finding him. They weren’t convinced that there was foul play involved.

What this all meant for me was that Kerner didn’t have any ties I could exploit in my search for his whereabouts. No wife, no kids, no girlfriend, not even a real friend of any kind, as far as I could tell. No permanent home that might draw him back or sentimental locations he might want to revisit when he wasn’t busy killing people. His parents were both dead—his father having met his end in a car accident very close to the time Kerner disappeared—and he had no other living family I could find. No doubt, the Olympians had been thorough in their attempt to wipe out this non-Greek line.

I slept on what little information I had, hoping I’d be able to make something of it in the morning, but no dice. When the Olympians had gotten their claws into him, Justin Kerner had left his old life in the dust, and it didn’t look like he had much of anything to look back on. That meant his past wasn’t going to help me catch him. Which left trying to anticipate his next move as my only option.

I unfolded my huge map of D.C. and its surrounding area, laying it on my desk. I’d already marked the murder sites on it, and I’d highlighted every cemetery I could find. Until the attack at Rock Creek, Kerner had been going on a generally northerly path, but to continue that pattern, he’d have to go outside the D.C. limits. Now that we knew for sure he was making a statement to Konstantin with the murders, I was fairly certain he wasn’t going to keep going north.

There were two cemeteries within the D.C. limits to the south of Anacostia, the site of the first kill, and one that was southwest of Rock Creek, where he’d struck last. When I looked at my numbered dots on the map and if I eliminated any cemeteries not within the D.C. limits, it seemed like the Oak Hill Cemetery, in Georgetown, would be the next logical site in his path if he was planning to circle back to the beginning.

Had he realized what meeting a fellow Liberi at the cemetery had meant? Did he think it was just a strange coincidence, or did

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