In Aeternum by Aliyah Burke

Author:Aliyah Burke [Burke, Aliyah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Erotic Romance Fiction
Publisher: Totally Bound Publishing
Published: 2019-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

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Somewhere deep in the Appalachian Mountains

He stared at the man who’d dared try to betray The Watchers. There was no empathy in him. The group had been carefully cultivated with an extremely clear purpose—to return the country’s misguided government to how it should be. When those serving did so at the leisure of the people. They should fear their countrymen, not be feared by them. In essence, to be in office was a privilege—those in that position should always remember it was the public who put them there, and the public should have the right to keep them in or remove them.

Rolling his toothpick between his lips, he stroked his goatee with the thumb and index finger of his left hand. Then he walked forward, the woodland ground making very little noise beneath his feet. The man who hung there had no marks on him. After one complete circle, he stared into blue eyes.

“Raymond,” he said, without a trace of any accent. “I am truly disappointed in you.” He withdrew his large Bowie knife from the sheath on his leg and used it to slice off a chunk of fresh, crisp apple.

“I’m sorry, so sorry,” Raymond babbled.

“Right, right. Of course you are. Look at me. Do I appear upset?” Another bite.

“No, sir.”

He paced as he ate the apple, mulling over his next option. None of that indecision showed on his face, however—he was confident in that with his years of experience. After two more circles around Raymond, who had his hands tied over his head, feet firmly on the ground, he stopped. Even Raymond’s eyes were full of fear, and beaded sweat gathered on his skin only to roll toward the fertile ground beneath their shoes.

“Because I’m not. This is the face of a disappointed leader. I believe you will still be useful to us and our cause. I mean, you do want to help us still, don’t you?”

“Yes. Yes! Anything, I’ll do anything.”

A sadistic grin turned up his mouth. “You have no idea how happy it makes me to hear that, Raymond.”

After a final slice of the apple, the sandy-haired man plunged his knife deep into Raymond’s chest cavity. His eyes gleamed as he rotated the blade and cut down, effectively gutting him like a pig. Raymond’s intestines spilled out, almost hitting his shoes. “You will leave them a message they will never forget.”

He wiped his knife off and returned the blade to its sheath before tossing the apple core and smoothing his hands down his linen pants.

“Take a picture of him, be sure the background is blurry enough they can’t make it out. But leave him hanging. In fact, take two. One first of his unmarked face. Just to give them a bit of hope. Follow it up with the rest, his guts spilling out to the ground. Send it to the appropriate people, for they are surely wanting to know why their snitch hasn’t checked in by now.”

The two men who’d been there, silent

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