The Perfect Rumor by Blake Pierce

Author:Blake Pierce [Pierce, Blake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blake Pierce
Published: 2022-02-14T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Eden Roth was giddy.

She’d waited so long—weeks now—that she had started to doubt her time would ever arrive.

When she’d been activated, her instructions from Andy Robinson, passed in coded language through an intermediary, had been clear. She was to wait until Jessie Hunt was in the news again before putting her plan into action.

Only then could she begin her task, the one she promised Andy that she would complete way back when she dedicated herself to Principles, when they were both inmate patients at the Female Forensic In-Patient Psychiatric Unit at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility. She had been preparing all this time, so that everything went off without a hitch. Sometimes at night, she’d dream about it, picturing the blood of her victims, as it left their bodies, along with their life force.

She had other dreams too, ones that she felt both ashamed of and exhilarated by. They often involved her in more than a friendly embrace with Andy, sharing the same prison cell bed, spooning, with the other woman’s breath on the back of her neck, her blonde hair falling slightly into Eden’s face.

She wasn’t ashamed about how she felt toward Andrea Robinson. Rather, she was ashamed that occasionally those feelings interfered with her ability to focus on the task at hand. Sometimes she’d be sharpening a weapon or studying a map when Andy’s visage would suddenly fill her mind. She saw her so clearly: her bright blue eyes, so intense that it was hard to look at them for too long, her blonde hair tied back in a devil-may-care ponytail, her mischievous grin, her proper curves.

Eden knew that she was the antithesis of Andy: short, skinny, curveless, with wilted brown hair, pale skin, and dull, gray eyes. Despite how she saw herself, Andy thought she was beautiful. She’d told her so.

Eden knew that she was unlikely to ever see Andy in person again, much less touch her. Her mission made that a virtual impossibility. But she’d made her peace with it, consoling herself with the knowledge that they’d finally embrace again in the next world, the one Andy promised they’d share together.

The time when she would enter that next world was infinitely closer than it had been just hours ago. That was because of a story on the evening news. She was watching and taking notes, as she did every night, when the anchor mentioned the death of a prominent Los Angeles resident at a fancy Palos Verdes resort. The police were investigating it and there were unconfirmed reports that the death might be a murder, because LAPD’s HHS unit, and specifically famed criminal profiler Jessie Hunt, had been spotted at the scene.

That was all she needed to leap into action. She went to her closet and pulled out the small chest in the corner. After placing it on her bed she removed all the essential items one by one, making sure that everything was in working order. She checked the map again, and then the calendar to make sure her chosen date would still work.

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