Beautiful Prey: The Storm Series by Phoenix Daniels

Author:Phoenix Daniels [Daniels, Phoenix]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781495956805
Amazon: 1495956806
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2014-02-13T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16

VICTORIA

Victoria was aware of the attention that she was getting as she strutted through the luxurious lobby of Chicago’s famous Drake Hotel. She was wearing a fitted knee-length white Versace bandeau dress and five-inch royal blue Christian Louboutin pumps. She’d applied a moderate amount of makeup and added a clear gloss to her lips. Victoria glanced at herself in a mirror as she walked by. She had achieved her desired look: elegant but sexy.

Victoria had received countless responses since creating her internet profile two months ago. She was spending a lot of time in Chicago’s most expensive hotels. Since being with Jack, Victoria found that she was getting very comfortable among the rich. Since her ex had gotten a little too stalkerish, Jack had insisted that she stay with him for a while. It turned out that Jack’s “while” meant indefinitely. She’d been there two months. Every time she mentioned returning to her apartment, Jack convinced her that she should stay. Victoria had even started bringing up the subject of leaving just so that Jack could convince her to stay in his special way. The truth was that she couldn’t imagine not going to sleep with him every night and waking up next to him every morning. Jack made sweet love to her almost every night and again in the morning. She thought of him every minute of every day.

Victoria changed her cellular number, so she hadn’t heard from Dante since she started staying at Jack’s penthouse. There were no more notes or flowers left on her car. Life was good and she enjoyed being surrounded by such luxury. But she knew that this wasn’t her life and she’d eventually have to return to her tiny apartment. She’d finally shared what she did for a living with Jack, and he thought it was admirable. But that didn’t stop him from constantly trying to convince her to take a desk job. Victoria just wasn’t a desk officer. She loved being a street cop and was most happy when she was doing active police work. She couldn’t catch a killer sitting behind a desk. The killer that she was hunting had brutally murdered three additional women last month, and each murder was more violent than the last. He was killing more frequently and becoming more sadistic. It was as if he was becoming angry, but his anger was a good thing because he was getting sloppy.

The killer left his DNA on his last victim. All they needed was to find a match, so Victoria had been doing decoy prostitution missions nonstop for the past month. Evidence technicians were present at every mission to swab the arrestees for DNA. The hotel security staff had provided processing rooms for the evidence techs, and everyone was in place and ready.

The old-world charm of the Drake Hotel made Victoria feel like the heroine in a 1920’s movie as she walked over to the bar and took a seat. She was meeting a John who had secured a room in the hotel.

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