Medicus by Carl Ehnis

Author:Carl Ehnis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: murder, crime and love, corporate crime, womans vengeance, woman empowerment, crime action adventure, woman main character, crime against a woman, carl ehnis
Publisher: Carl Ehnis

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Powers stopped Fear in the hallway and said, “You’ll never guess who I just got off the phone with.” Fear followed him to his office where Powers slammed the door and told Fear to sit down. He paced back and forth behind his desk. Fear looked at Powers with eyebrows arched. “You probably already know,” Powers added.

“Gaetano Sagatini phoned in from Hell?” Fear cracked.

“Very funny, worse than that. It was Lisa Parmenter. Appears you been talking to Martin. Looks like his handiwork. Killed her fucking lawyer. Are you crazy? What’s the idea bringing Martin into this? She could have been handled.” Fear gripped the arms of the chair and exhaled deeply.

“It cannot be connected to Martin or the organization,” he assured Powers.

“Golly, and Lisa Parmenter calls me and it’s only a fishing expedition on her part, is that what you’re saying? Wait till the pros do some investigating. You know what we got to do,” Powers said.

“Hmm. But you know what that means.”

“That stuff about Martin having killed is just a lot of horseshit. He’s not that nuts.”

“And what did you say about Lisa Parmenter’s lawyer?” Fear asked, minus the usual smug grin. Powers dropped in the chair behind his desk. The two men stared at each other, then simultaneously turned their heads to the window. Powers despised Fear for bringing Martin into this. What did he expect? Well, it was his job to make him stop. It then occurred to Powers that maybe this wasn’t such bad a deal for him. Why not ring Nando and let him in on Fear’s horrendous lapse of judgment-—yeah, that would be slick. Link Fear to the maniac and he could kill two birds with one stone, figuring a little added leverage with CHI was not a bad thing. There’s no law saying Fear had to be part of deal. Yes, Powers decided that he’d get on the horn with Nando, once Martin was dealt with.

“He’s got to be isolated,” Powers declared. “He can’t be part of this. He’s not right for the project. Every time we tie up one loose end, another one comes undone. Martin will slip up, they’ll trace it to us and then we’re all screwed up the ass.”

“You’re being paranoid, Matty.”

“I’m right, too.”

“Yeah.” A slight caterpillar twitch over Fear’s right eye, something that acted up every now and then. The last time Powers saw it was in the board room when Fear was closely questioning him on the interim managerial delegation issue that preceded the succession melee. It was a slight, pulsing vein. Just enough, though, for Powers’ to notice.

“I say we get it done today. We’ll honor the severance clause in his contract, maybe add a sweetener-—you decide,” Powers said. Paine Fear nodded.

“But what if he doesn’t call off the dogs?” said Fear. “He probably won’t, you know, for spite. It could just make things worse. It could escalate.” The hooded eyes of Paine Fear receded into his pumpkin skull.

“Paine, not to be mean about it, but he’s your dog.

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