Kissed by Night by Jada Storm & Emma Stark

Author:Jada Storm & Emma Stark [Storm, Jada & Stark, Emma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B07CBSTWMW
Publisher: Dynamo Press
Published: 2018-07-07T05:00:00+00:00

“Good boy,” I tell Maximus, patting him on the head. The dog turns to me, ears flattening as he sniffs my hand. “I know. I smell weird,” I say softly. “Don’t freak out.” The dog found the baseball bat, half hidden under the dumpster, when his owner was taking him for a walk. The owner heard about the murder this morning and called the police when he thought he saw blood.

I retrace the steps our killer might have taken, going from the alley to the coffee shop. He wanted to take Josh out back, probably to a car he had waiting. Had he driven through the alley and tossed the bat out the window in a panic? He missed the dumpster and didn’t stop to pick it up. He left in a hurry.

The murder didn’t go according to plan, yet he still set it up and claimed it. Unless he really thinks he’s framing someone. We were careful with the details we let the press know about with Lily’s murder, and even more tight-lipped this time around.

Thinking back to the criminal psychology classes I took in college, I’m not sure how to classify this guy. He has a Zodiac Killer-vibe going on with the cryptic crime scenes, but I fully believe he’s setting them up that way to try and trick everyone, not confuse and mislead the cops. He’s not trying to take credit, not yet at least, which is why he got rid of the bat.

He had to cross two main roads to get to this block, and several stores have back doors that open into the alley. I make notes of their names and will have officers go to them later to see if there’s any footage or if anyone saw a car speeding through here early in the morning. We’ve questioned everyone we could so far around the coffee shop, but with the murder being so early in the morning, not many places were open and occupied.

I’m walking back to the dumpster when the voices rush up on me. I whirl around, not knowing what to expect. It’s like a crowd of whispers, too far away to decipher what’s being said yet right up in my ears at the same time. My head spins, and the energy that rebounded inside me bubbles up, making both my hands heat up.

The feeling of being watched weighs heavily on me, and it’s not coming from the officers a hundred or so yards down. Swallowing my pounding heart, I keep my hands at my sides, ready for a fight. I’m basically a beacon of magical energy right now, and demons are like moths to a flame.

My mind goes back to the bloody basement, back to the words written in black ink under the animal blood. The situation was chalked up to a prank, and is the last thing I need to be thinking about right now. So why the fuck does it keep popping up in my mind?

“Find anything?” Nick’s voice echoes off the brick buildings, too loud in my ears.

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