Kingpin by Germain Lili St

Author:Germain, Lili St [Germain, Lili St]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2015-12-13T08:00:00+00:00

He studied the scene for a few moments without speaking, sipping his coffee every now and then. His head tilted to the side, he was like some kind of rogue detective, taking in every detail. The broken whiskey bottle. The blood-soaked sheets. I stood beside him, not so close that our arms touched, but almost. I copied his head tilt, wanting to see what he saw, trying to observe the scene objectively, as if it wasn’t me who’d committed the crime.

Murphy wasn’t a pretty sight. It was as if his body had softened somehow, melting heavily into the mattress. And his death hadn’t been dignified, not one bit. His pants were still around his ankles, his bare legs a pasty white without any blood circulating in them.

The condom still clung to his flaccid penis, the empty end sticking to his thigh. John noticed it instantly, his eyes darting to mine.

‘He raped you?’

I shrugged.

‘It’s a simple question.’

I responded, perhaps a little too sharply. ‘You’d think so, wouldn’t you?’

John took a step back and turned to me. ‘You know, I’m missing some excellent leftover macaroni cheese and a beer for this.’ His mouth quirked, as if he were about to laugh.

I snorted behind my coffee cup.

‘Seriously, though,’ he said. ‘What happened here? I need to know. I’m a part of this now.’

I swallowed bitter coffee. ‘He was here when you dropped me off.’

He looked up sharply. ‘In your apartment?’

I nodded. ‘He killed my entire family, and I’m pretty sure he was going to kill me, too.’ I hadn’t meant to say that, but fuck it, I might as well tell him.

‘What?’

I was shaking. Why was I shaking? I was cool. I was calm. I was fine. And then suddenly, I was most definitely not fine. I started to suck in great lungfuls of air as the room spun around me. My family is dead. The people who gave me life, the ones who raised me. And until the very moment those words had left my mouth – He killed my entire family – I had been numb to the reality, refusing to accept it was true.

There was no witness protection for me, or them. There never had been. There was only cruel lies. Murphy had disposed of them, and he had been about to do the same to me, once I secured his stash of hidden money for him. It was all so abundantly clear, and I felt like an idiot for even considering that he’d been telling the truth before.

It was the photographs. He’d baited me with promises of seeing my son and I’d thrown logic out the window. It was terrifying how easily he’d manipulated me.

Well, who was the sucker now?

Yeah.

I stumbled, losing my balance as the room continued to spin, and John caught me before I toppled. I hated being weak, but right now, I’d give myself a hall pass.

I started to cry. Deep, wretched sobs.

‘Hey,’ John said, his face close to mine. ‘Ana. You gotta pull yourself together. I can’t take care of you and bury this motherfucker at the same time.

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