Shadow Unit 3 by Emma Bull & Elizabeth Bear

Author:Emma Bull & Elizabeth Bear [Bull, Emma & Bear, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: strong women, science fiction mystery, bau, behavioral analysis unit, diverse cast
Publisher: Emma Bull
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Cathy Aronofsky, in Lufkin, told them the same story. She told it angrily, with a different coda: she no longer believed in God, or went to church. But the conviction she was being punished for the sins of pride and disobedience had kept her helpless during her rape, and kept her from pressing charges.

Her rapist was stern, aloof. He’d called himself God’s messenger. And he was definitely William Villette.

Back at the Yukon, Todd leaned on the fender. “Want to drive?”

“I want a shower. Maybe three. No, you drive while I call in.”

“Do I need to mention that Cathy Aronofsky and Shelly Keyser are both tall, slender, dark-eyed, and dark-haired?”

“Coincidence?”

Todd raised both eyebrows. “Do we believe in that now?”

“Ugh.” She slumped in the passenger seat. “He made them complicit in their own damned rapes, Sol.”

“No, he didn’t.” His voice was uncommonly sharp. When she looked, so was his face. “He made them think they were. It’s just another kind of force and coercion. They had no choice.”

It bothers him even more than it does me. “He took away the victim’s last refuge.” Because after the crime, it was possible to say, “I didn’t make it happen,” and start rebuilding life from there.

If Chaz was still alive—

“...Then what’s happening to him?” muttered Todd.

Worth glared at him. “I preferred not to say it out loud.”

“Use your indoor-thinking voice, then.” He smiled thinly and started the car. He seemed to be focused on merging into traffic. But he broke the silence with, “Dibs on telling Chaz about the Phoenix landing.”

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