With Deadly Intent by KA Richardson

Author:KA Richardson [Richardson, KA]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-11-26T16:00:00+00:00

Ryhope Pier, Sunderland – 14 October

He glanced down the pier towards the cave one last time. Today was his last visit to watch the goings on. The news crews had got bored, their little boats no longer bobbing out on the steady waves. And for all he understood the basics of forensics, he didn’t know why the police held the scene for so long. It surely couldn’t take this amount of time to determine that the old guy had been beaten to death with a hammer.

It had served a dual purpose though.

The young man was now well and truly established as showstopper number three. He knew Andy saw him as an easy mark. He gave him money when he asked, bought him alcohol and cigarettes, and was generally playing the part of being the lonely middle aged man with a new friend.

His dislike of the young man was growing in intensity, and he wasn’t convinced he’d be able to keep up the pretence much longer. Andy was growing ever more demanding and somewhat threatening. He also knew he was being drip-fed false information. The boy thought he could lie to him and get away with it. He pushed the sudden wave of anger back with difficulty. Why not just kill him now and be done with it? He was convinced Andy was going to try to rob him at some point and knew the teenager was offering a fake story to ward off any unwanted police attention.

It had taken him until that morning to figure out why Andy was so familiar.

He had seen Andy and his girlfriend in the park harassing Albert on several occasions. Andy had probably seen him too, but he was confident that his disguise in the park had been different enough for the teenager not to realise. The he was a homeless man; now he looked like a fisherman, shaggy beard, flat cap and a gum shield.

He knew where Andy lived and that he worked in the local McDonalds with a bunch of other spotty, arrogant teenagers, and he also knew Andy was actually called Scott Anderson. He knew Scott’s girlfriend was called Kourtney with a K, and generally sported large gold loops in her ears and a velour tracksuit that was around two sizes too small for her chubby middle. It was just too easy nowadays to find out information.

It was Scott’s attitude that was proving hard to bear.

He gritted his teeth. It was never good to be pressured into doing something sooner than planned.

But try as he might to stay calm, his patience was growing thin. He liked the routine of a three-week wait between shows, the time to plan every last move. It was the perfect amount of time to allow things to die down before his next masterpiece.

But this one wasn’t progressing as well as he had hoped.

Suddenly his mind flashed back to those Sunday mornings. His mother would wake him at 5 a.m. on the dot. His father was always allowed to stay in bed.

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