Face of Darkness (A Zoe Prime Mystery—Book 6) by Blake Pierce

Author:Blake Pierce [Pierce, Blake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2020-12-23T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINETEEN

Zoe clutched onto her seatbelt for dear life while Flynn threw the car into the road, taking corners at reckless speeds. She tried closing her eyes, but it didn’t help the motion sickness—only increased her feeling of helplessness. By the time Flynn hurled the vehicle to a stop outside the address they had visited last night, Zoe had to take a few deep breaths to stop herself from throwing up before climbing out to follow him.

“Where?” Flynn barked at the one remaining police officer standing guard outside, idly strolling up and down the driveway.

“Inside, sir,” she said, jerking her head toward the front door.

Zoe caught up with Flynn as he charged inside, following the sound of voices to a living room which was currently holding two more officers and a man that Zoe recognized easily. He was the same as he had been in the surveillance pictures that Richards and Stout used for their banned customer lists: Gerry Dean.

His bald head bore drops of sweat today, and he looked up at them with wide and frantic eyes as they entered the room. Flynn wasted no time in positioning himself opposite their suspect, staring down at him with his arms folded across his chest.

“Gerry Dean,” he said. “We’d like to talk to you about the spate of murders that have been committed in Salem over the past few days.”

“Murders?” Gerry looked from him to Zoe, now standing beside him, back and forth like a clock: tick, tock, tick, tock. Zoe counted the intervals. “Everyone keeps saying murders. I don’t even know…”

“You don’t know?” Flynn interrupted. “Let me tell you about them, Mr. Dean. My name is Special Agent Aiden Flynn, and this is Special Agent Zoe Prime. We’re with the FBI, investigating the case. We’ve been looking into everything you’ve done. How you tried to trick these business owners into paying out on refunds that you weren’t due. How you caused a fuss. How they pushed you out of being able to do any business at all here in Salem, and you resented that.”

Dean was shaking his head in place now, a rapid twitch that never quite managed to develop as far as rotation of the neck. “Yeah, I pulled a few things. I’ve admitted that. I got caught fair and square. I made a few grand before they stopped me, so I counted myself lucky. That’s all. I’ve been working. I got a new job.”

“You expect us to believe that?” Flynn asked, his voice dangerous and low. “You think we don’t know how you stalked them? How you learned about their every move, so you knew where you would be able to find them? How you lay in wait for them every night, so you could string them up as punishment, make a spectacle out of them like they did to you?”

Dean looked like he wanted to jump out of his seat; he was practically vibrating with fear now. “Wh-what are you… I never…”

“We know you’ve been taking them down one by one, Mr.

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