Mad Love Science_13_Jewels and Panties by Brooke Kinsley

Author:Brooke Kinsley [Kinsley, Brooke]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-02-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Lincoln

There was so much blood. There was no way to clean it up. It congealed around my feet and sunk into the gaps in the tiles.I don’t know how long I just stood there, watching the blood turn black along with Norma’s lips but I didn’t walk away until the sun came up.

When I did, I walked up to the bedroom. Lying down, I stared up at the ceiling and pulled the covers up around my neck. They smelled like Etta, like what life was like only two days ago. I breathed in her scent and closed my eyes. Maybe if I breathed in hard enough she’d appear beside me.

Outside, I could hear the sound of a car pulling up outside the gates. For some reason, I imagined it was Pinstripe’s guys. I’d waited for someone to come and find me, come and interrogate me about his death but no one had arrived. Clearly they bought my story about a heart attack.

The memory of the basement came back to me now, the smell of fear and shit and the sound of the girls whimpering. I pulled the covers up over my face to block it out. It wasn’t my problem. I couldn’t go around saving everyone. No matter how much I tried, they always died anyway.

The car outside shuddered to a halt and there was the sound of the door slamming followed by quick footsteps. A moment later, the gate was squeaking open and the footsteps meandered slowly around to the pool. It wouldn’t be long until whoever it was found what was laying there.

“What the fuck?” came a familiar voice through the window. “Norma? Norma! Fuck!”

“Berger?”

With the covers still around me, I scurried over to the window and looked down. He was bent down by her body with his head in his hands. Sensing he was being stared at, he looked up and gesticulated wildly.

“Bosworth, you did this?”

“Slit her wrists? No, why would I do that?”

He stared at me for a long while, his arms still waving around in disbelief.

“Get down here, Bosworth.”

I dropped my covers to the floor and sighed.

“Be right there.”

He was still standing beside Norma when I greeted him with a bottle of vodka. He didn’t bother taking the glass, preferring to swallow a stomach full from the bottle.

“What are you doing back here?”

“Hey, nice to see you too.”

He continued to look into Norma’s face. I noticed his hands were shaking.

“Where’s Etta?” he asked.

“She’s doing some work in the lab.”

I don’t know why I said that. It just felt so natural to protect him from the truth.

“The lab?”

“I built a lab.”

“Jesus, Bosworth. What the hell’s been going on down here?”

“A lot.”

“Evidently.”

He sat on the nearby sun lounger and I took the one beside him. You’d be forgiven for thinking it was just two buddies having a drink in the sun, if it wasn’t for the body beside us.

“When did that happen?” he asked, pointing the bottle over toward Norma.

Being a hardened cop, the concept of

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