Girl, Unknown by Blake Pierce

Author:Blake Pierce [Pierce, Blake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blake Pierce
Published: 2023-07-27T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINETEEN

He stirred the froth in his coffee until it melted into the brown liquid, staring at it blankly while he composed his thoughts.

A waitress came over and dropped a saucer of milk on the table. She said something like sorry for the wait, but he wasn’t listening. He wasn’t really here. His physical self might have been in a busy coffee shop, but his mind was adrift at sea. The front page of the Quad City Times said there’d been a brutal slaying in Dellmount the night before, although the grisly details were alarmingly minimal. No names, no details, just liberal mentions of the so-called Davenport Monster, a title he would willingly embrace if the circumstances allowed.

But they didn’t, because he hadn’t killed anyone last night.

This wasn’t how things were supposed to be. For years he’d dreamed of this moment; sitting in a coffee shop while the oblivious patrons gossiped about the cold-blooded killer on their doorsteps. They’d all be blissfully unaware that the monster they blathered about was only a few feet away from them. It would be a thrill like no other, to hide in plain sight as he cut out the city’s cancer. These women who thought they were making a difference, when it was all just a ploy for attention. He saw right through their nonsense, and he was going to expose them to the world for the narcissists they were. You had to be the change you wanted to see in the world, not grandstand in front of a camera for clout.

But apparently, you couldn’t even take lives without someone trying to steal your thunder anymore.

Two nights ago he’d broken into the home of Miss Katherine Parkinson. He’d shown her how a real person of influence did things. He didn’t just shout into cameras on the news. He took a hunting knife and thrust it into her stomach, left her lying like a slaughtered pig and proved that she wasn’t above tradition. Katherine needed to know that she wasn’t in charge and never would be, nor would any of her peers. As far as he was concerned, anyone who challenged the patriarch was a bullseye for his blade. He was putting all the so-called advocates in this city on notice, to the point that they’d all flee back into their holes and never come out again. He didn’t see himself as a murderer, but a social terrorist doing what was necessary.

But someone else had come along, overshadowed him, and scattered all his hard work to the wind. This operation was the result of months of resentment, weeks of planning, carefully executed techniques that had gone off without a hitch. He’d staked out Katherine’s place, figured out her schedule, took a huge risk in climbing up her fire escape to get inside. He could have easily been caught since he had to climb past six other apartments to get to Katherine’s, but he was confident that it went off without a hitch.

Meanwhile, someone else was taking the glory.

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