Kill for Me by Tom Wood

Author:Tom Wood
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2018-11-05T16:00:00+00:00

• Chapter 41 •

Messy. Unrefined. But they were dead and he was not.

Cleaning up the scene was simple. They had everything Victor could need. He wrapped each corpse in plastic, making sure each cocoon was watertight, and loaded them into their own minivan in the cover of their unit. He wasn’t yet sure the best thing to do with the van and corpses inside, but they were better found anywhere but here and a long time from now. The independent status and autonomy that Eadrich had boasted of meant Victor could enjoy a significant window before anyone started asking questions.

Outside, the sun was low but still bright, and it had been much darker inside the unit. The whine in his ears and the fog in his mind were slow to diminish, and cleaning up and moving the bodies had been tiring. His limbs remained a little slow, a little ungainly. He didn’t trust his balance. His steps were short and almost shuffling—a drunk leaving a bar.

He saw an almost-empty stretch of asphalt that would serve any legitimate enterprise as parking spaces for employees and maybe deliveries and dispatches. Now just one other vehicle besides the minivan. A second, smaller car was parked farther away. Shiny paint. Clean window glass. No doubt Eadrich’s ride. Victor pictured the minivan driving around to pick up the others at the beginning of the day and performing the same route in reverse when it was time to go home.

No one was around. No one could see Victor. The unit had a chain-link fence, but the next closest unit was out of the line of sight, and there was no through traffic on the approach road. Which was why they had chosen it, of course. Quiet. Remote as it could be so close to a major metropolis. How many people had been brought here, never to leave? Victor didn’t know. Couldn’t know. He was no humanitarian, although he enjoyed the irony of claiming to be from time to time. He didn’t care about those people, but he cared that he hadn’t become one of them.

There were no CCTV cameras to concern himself with, beyond a few that formed a perimeter around the building. For show, mostly. They were too high and too old to capture Victor’s face, or anyone else’s, from inside a vehicle. Any cameras that had once been inside had been removed. The crew hadn’t wanted recordings of what took place within. He removed the hard disks that captured footage from the outside cameras, because he could never be too careful, and better for there to be no record of the four guys returning here and never leaving again. He didn’t imagine detectives would ever come looking for them, but maybe the cartel would. Best if they simply vanished. They had already called Diaz from inside the minivan to tell him there was nothing to worry about. By the time anyone realized that Victor was someone to worry about, he planned to be beyond their reach.

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