Kill Game: An Unforgettable Serial Killer Thriller by Adam Nicholls & Jennifer May

Author:Adam Nicholls & Jennifer May [Nicholls, Adam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-10-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

Bella looked over her shoulder just in time to see an old woman’s face disappearing behind the lace that hung in her window. She’d noticed the light as soon as they’d turned the corner to make their way up Harrison Road. It was late, and most houses on the street were either completely shut down or filled with the blue light of televisions. The house was easy to spot—directly across from what Bella was convinced was Salem’s rancher, it’d been lit up like a jack-o’-lantern. The light from her windows stretched across the pavement like fingers reaching for the gate they stood in front of.

She glanced over at Kyle. He’d been quiet the entire ride over, and he stared now, his eyes blank, into the equally blank eyes of the house. “We’ve got an audience,” she said. “If we were here officially—I mean, if we were actually allowed to be here—we’d probably need to go over there and interview her.”

Kyle stared over at Bella, his piercing eyes still unfocused as if he were looking right through her at something far more interesting. “Interview who?”

Bella nodded her head toward the house across the way.

“An old woman, directly behind me. She’s been watching us since we showed up.”

Kyle’s eyes finally sharpened, and he looked over his shoulder with a quick flick of the head. When he returned to meet Bella’s gaze, uncertainty was easily readable in his expression.

“She’s seen Salem,” Bella went on. “She knows something for sure. Hell, she probably thinks we’re a couple of teenagers here to score meth.”

Despite the dour tone that had fallen over both of them, Kyle laughed.

“Teenagers, that’s great. Must be my twelve-step Korean skincare routine.”

Without responding to him, she put her hand on the gate and pulled the latch with a determined yank. She was already through the gate and maneuvering a path among the trash that carpeted the walk.

“Wait a second. Jesus, Bella. What’s the plan?” he hissed, crouching a little as he walked behind her, like he could not be seen.

Bella stopped dead and turned to him. “The plan,” she hissed back, moving close enough so she could speak in a whisper, “is for me to go in there and get a good look around. That’s all. You need to stay out here.”

“I’m not staying out here. If you’re right, and if that psycho is in there, there’s no way in hell I’m letting you go in there alone.”

“You don’t have a choice,” Bella said. “I don’t care if Brooks fires me, but I’m not taking you down with me.”

“It’s a little late for that,” Kyle said, raising his arms to indicate their position. “I’m in this for real now.”

Bella was even closer now. She pressed her finger against the moist wool of his hideous sweater. “You wait outside, in the back. If I need you, you’ll know, all right?”

“If you need me?” Kyle sputtered, his jaw flexing.

“I didn’t want you here. I just wanted you to know where I was going.

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