Cocky Savior: A Hero Club Novel by Jane Blythe & Hero Club

Author:Jane Blythe & Hero Club [Blythe, Jane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cocky Hero Club, Inc.
Published: 2020-12-26T16:00:00+00:00

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7:46 P.M.

There would be no mistakes this time.

None.

Mess ups were for failures. How many times had he been called a failure in his life?

Hundreds?

Thousands?

He wasn't sure, but more than he cared to think about.

As a child, it had been the often repeated mantra in his house. Why hadn't he gotten straight A’s on his report cards? Why didn't he make the basketball team? The baseball team? The football team? Why wasn't he smart enough? Why wasn't he sporty enough? Why wasn't he good enough?

There were, of course, no answers to those questions.

He didn't excel at anything because he wasn't good enough.

Not good enough.

Never good enough.

At least not until now.

Now, he was a killer who had stalked the city for eighteen months, kept the cops at bay, left no trail for them to follow, and had sixteen bodies to prove it. He had used his weaknesses to his advantage, played on the fact that no one ever noticed him, and he had triumphed for once in his life.

The only way to prove to everyone in his life who hadn't noticed him, hadn't cared about him, hadn't believed in him wrong, was to keep killing.

Knocking on the door, he waited for it to be answered.

He didn't have to wait long.

The door was thrown open, and a pretty lady with long blonde waves cascading down her back dressed in a business suit and bare feet stood there. He knew she’d just arrived home because he’d watched from right beside the front door to the building as she walked inside.

Of course she hadn't seen him, perhaps if she had her fate would have been different, but like always, he was the shadow that no one noticed.

“Hello, may I help you?” she asked.

“Evening, ma’am, just letting you know the electricity will be going off at eight, there was a problem in the neighboring building that requires us to shut things down for at least an hour.”

“Oh, really?” She looked annoyed. “I was going to video call with my boyfriend who’s traveling overseas for work.”

“Sorry for the inconvenience,” he said, not sorry in the least. “Please sign here to indicate that you’ve been notified.” He held out the clipboard.

With an irritated sigh, she snatched it from his hand and scribbled her name on the sheet of paper. Before she could hand it back, he whipped out his hand and clamped it around her neck, shoving her inside the apartment, kicking the door closed behind him.

Learning from the last time when the woman had managed to get the drop on him, he increased the pressure on her neck, squeezing until she passed out. Then he dropped her unconscious body on the floor and breathed a sigh of relief.

Everything had gone smoothly.

Last time had been an anomaly, he’d been thrown from his game by Detective Florence Harris managing to get a read on him. It was disconcerting for someone who was used to being invisible to finally be seen. It was like his cloak had been removed and his nakedness made clear for all the world to see.

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