First, Murder by Rylie Dark

Author:Rylie Dark [Dark, Rylie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-03-27T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

The Watcher sat in his hotel room with his attention turned to the city. Outside, the third night of the carnival raged through the city, covering the place in the music, laughter, and the sound of fireworks. The tourists partied undeterred by any news of his latest work.

The TV rambled in the background, but he watched closely when he heard the news anchor mention the mysterious murders of the last few days. He painstakingly translated the Italian and pieced together the rest.

“Thirty-two-year-old Nicole Banci and thirty-five-year-old Patrizio Verga were both found dead in some of Venice’s most famous sights,” said the anchor. Pictures of both flashed on the screen.

“The Venice police have not disclosed any further details about the case at this time, but we do believe that Interpol is working closely with local law enforcement to find the person responsible.”

The Watcher clicked off the TV, and the room went eerily silent. He rifled through his pockets and brought out a newspaper clipping written in Belgian. The article relayed the details of Alexandria Quinn’s earlier cases. Her face was even printed on the paper’s front page. She looked stoic but proud, staring with a professional but self-assured look at the camera.

“This case required every skill I have,” she was quoted in the article. “But we’ve put another criminal behind bars for a very long time.” How disappointing it was when he found out that this girl, at the end of the day, was nothing more than another superficial idealist, dividing the world into the criminal and the innocent.

As if people were that simplistic.

He brought out another clipping. This one displayed one of her previous partners in an early case of his, the name Henri Acard printed underneath.

His article was more insufferable, written in French. It chronicled all the hard work he had done over his career and how thankful he was for his partner.

Neither Quinn nor Acard frightened the Watcher.

In fact, it was the opposite. Soon, they would be afraid of him.

He stared at their faces for a long time, studying the grainy, black-and-white images. The thought of them made him taste bile in the back of his throat.

He took the room’s waste bin from the bathroom and placed it at the foot of the bed. He opened the window to let in the sound of more fireworks and the smell of the damp, night air. Then he took his lighter out of his pocket and set both clippings on fire. He dropped the flaming paper into the bin and watched the faces of Alexandria Quinn and Henri Acard crumble until there was nothing more of them but a dark, sooty stain.

The third victim had escaped—the German girl.

He would have liked to have presented her as another piece of the puzzle before the grand finale. But then again, would the illustrious Agent Quinn piece it together anyway? The way people spoke of her, she seemed like an infallible angel of justice.

But he knew that wasn’t true.

Infallibility was just another mask.

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