Demon's Match by Dylan Keefer

Author:Dylan Keefer [Keefer, Dylan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Purple Press LLC
Published: 2018-10-09T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

The apartment complex had several floors, and the elevator wasn't working. Micah started climbing the stairs to the fifth floor. Last night had yielded a lot of information about Naia. The more that Micah had learned from people in her life, the more that he didn't like the conclusions he was coming up with. She was smart, persuasive, and cunning.

“Truthfully, Naia has potential beyond what she wants to do,” her boss at the Wave told him. “I mean, this girl can find anything about anyone. She could do your job for you.” “But you hired her as an investigative journalist,” Micah had asked him. “What type of stories did she write?”

He was handed a phone with the Wave app on it, and Micah browsed through all Naia's stories. There were political pieces about government, entertainment, business—all of them in depth with interviews that told of corruption and conspiracy. “She's good,” he surmised.

“Good?” her boss said. “She's got over a million readers and followers internationally. When she writes something, people read it. When she tweets something, people retweet. When she posts, people share.” “Hard to believe that someone this famous doesn't get a lot of—problem people in her life,” Micah said. “She didn't have any enemies or stalkers?” “Naia is smart. She never posts anything personal about herself, never posts photos of herself, and she uses a different name online in reference to her work. See up top?”

Everything posted was under the name 'Athena.' "The Greek goddess of reason and intellect."

“And literary art,” her boss added. “Fits, huh?”

“Yeah,” Micah said giving the man back his phone. “What do you know about her personal life with her boyfriend?”

The man shook his head. “Nothing. She never went into detail about her life outside of work. The only one who stayed close with her in the real world is Mano. He's another intern here. You should talk to him.”

But Micah had struck out in that department. This Mano character wasn't at home, work, and seemed to be unable to be located. There were officers placed outside of his home to bring him in for questioning, and Micah left it at that. He went to talk to some of Alex's buddies in command.

“You think he's dead?”

Micah sat at a booth in one of the bars near the naval base. Officer Jones and Office Cann sat across from him with beers in their hands.

“We don't know if he's dead?” “I can't believe it,” Jones said. “Alex is a standup guy. He's the guy you want in your corner at all times. Alex is the reason a lot of us didn't give up or get depressed. He always had a positive attitude.” “Did he talk to you guys about his relationship at all?”

They both chuckled. “I think that was one of the reasons he was so positive,” Cann said. “He was always talking about his 'island firecracker'. The guy was whipped.” “We all thought he was crazy when he came back from a funeral and said that he met a girl who turned his life upside down,” Jones said.

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