Primed to Kill by Emmy Ellis

Author:Emmy Ellis
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Calibre
Published: 2019-10-09T22:00:00+00:00

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In bed, the covers drawn up to his chin, Adam sighed and stared at the cream slice of illumination coming in from the hallway. Yeah, he’d been spooked enough to leave the landing light on, not wanting the demons of the night to come and get him. Yet they were here anyway, in his head, flickering like so much badly spliced movie footage, one scene cutting to the next in jagged pieces.

“Fuck!” he whispered and got out of bed.

He padded downstairs to make some tea, sat with it at the kitchen table, and mulled things over. Was the barn killing an isolated case? Was it linked to just the warehouse murder? Were both linked to the Sugar Strands case? Was the latter even possible? The first two didn’t pose any threat unless he and Dane identified the men and they had to appear in court or their names were dragged into it. If more men were involved, they could come after them, try to shut them up. But that was a bit far-fetched, wasn’t it? It wasn’t like they lived in gangster land.

But people from the city do.

He clamped his jaw and blotted that thought up as though it was just a spill that could be cleaned away. He did the same with every frightening thought he conjured while examining all the possibilities, and by the time he was done he felt better due to one thing—this time they had the police on their side, actually following things up. This time the case was possibly so big his welfare wasn’t classed as something that could be ignored then forgotten. The authorities wouldn’t want another victim on their hands, another person’s death or disappearance to explain to an already outraged public.

No, he was safe here in this situation.

As though to convince himself of that, he got up and went into the dark living room. He pulled one curtain back a bit and peered outside. The police officer was still there, reading by the looks of it, head bent with a flashlight wedged into one of the spaces in his steering wheel. Idly, Adam wondered if it would be the same copper out there by the time he peeked out again tomorrow, or whether they would silently change over while he slept—if he finally managed to.

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