The Entity Game: An Aurora Donati Novel by Lisa Shearin

Author:Lisa Shearin [Shearin, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Murwood Media, LLC
Published: 2020-05-11T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER 22

As I waited for Mark Dalton’s body to be removed and Rees to clear the room for me, I thought that there had to be easier and less risky ways to get to a US senator.

Julian and Alan had been killed in the early hours of the morning, but Dalton had been stricken in the middle of the afternoon. This killer was going to a lot of trouble, but for what? Why here and why now? I hadn’t asked Rees what Julian and Senator Dalton had in common. Was it the pharma bill? Or another connection? Did that connection, even from their positions on opposite sides of the aisle, get them both killed? Did the killer want to make a statement, not just about the two dead senators, but about the Senate itself, perhaps even the entire government? Aside from the White House, Capitol Hill was seen as the ultimate symbol of the United States. They were two of the safest places in the world, symbols of power and control. The killer was doing a fine job of destroying that sense of safety.

And the elephant-in-the-room question—how were they killed?

Rees would remain inside the restroom while Berta stood guard on the other side of the door.

As the last agent and forensic tech left, the emotional white noise left behind by the Capitol Police, first responders, FBI agents and investigators, and the medical examiner and her team began to fade.

Rising in the stillness was a sense of the presence I’d felt in Julian’s office, with the same intense, single-minded focus.

I went to stand in front of the stall door, which Rees had pulled closed before retreating to the area near the hand dryers. I didn’t touch the door, because the killer hadn’t touched the door.

His hands had never left his sides.

I closed my eyes, emptying myself of the sound of voices outside in the hall, the smell of recently used cleaning chemicals, the thoughts and theories jostling in my mind for attention. I centered my focus on the one presence, opening myself to it and letting it flow over and around me.

As my breathing slowed, my body shivered at the contact, but I remained perfectly still, letting the presence speak to me, telling me what had transpired here. It had been hours old by the time I’d gotten to Julian’s office. It was much newer here, its potency making it seem more recent still.

How simple it is to kill in the so-called halls of power. I can take any of them at any time…My power flows now, amplified beyond what I’d ever dreamed…It is effortless to summon and aim. Like a weapon, a flawlessly lethal weapon…It is mine to wield, no one else’s, at my command and mine alone…No one can find me. I can’t be captured, because I cannot be disarmed. I cannot be stopped.

Normally, all I got from contact with a killer were brief flashes of images or impressions. This was so far from my normal, I didn’t even know where to begin trying to explain it.

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