In the Company of Killers by J.A. Redmerski

Author:J.A. Redmerski [Redmerski, J.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lonely Raven Studios
Published: 2022-02-18T00:00:00+00:00

7

Victor

I go out to meet Izabel in the hallway as she makes her way back; listening to the sound of her boots tapping against the floor as she gets closer. She rounds the corner at the end of the hall, but she will not look up at me although I know she is aware of my presence. Her long auburn hair is disheveled from the fight, pushed away from her elegant shoulders, and laying against her back. There’s a cut on her left leg, just above the top of her boot, and red streaks that might be leftover from Nora’s fingernails, running along her bare thighs. But no matter what Nora did to her physically, I know just by looking at her that what she did to her emotionally was far worse.

I have more than an urge to go into that room and kill that woman myself, but for Izabel’s sake, for the life of Dina Gregory, I cannot.

“Izabel,” I say when she steps up to me, but she looks into my eyes and steals the rest of my words away.

“I’m sorry, Victor.” She starts to walk past me, away from the door to the surveillance room.

I reach out carefully and hook my hand about her elbow.

“I turned off the audio,” I say. “No one heard what you confessed other than Nora.”

It takes her a moment, but finally she turns to look at me, something indecipherable at rest in her bright green eyes. It is not relief, as I would expect, but something else—regret, perhaps?

Moving around to stand in front of her, I reach my hand up and rest it against the side of her face. She closes her eyes momentarily as if she finds comfort in the gesture, her long dark lashes sweeping her face.

“You didn’t hear anything?” she asks with faint disbelief.

I shake my head. “No,” I say and fit both of my hands about her elbows. “I ordered the audio turned off the moment I saw that she had you where she wanted you. You were smart when you went in there, Izabel; you did well at turning the tables on her. It may not have produced the results you hoped for, but you did well.”

Izabel looks behind me at the wall for a moment, and then says, “I’m surprised you didn’t rush in there when she attacked me,” but I get the feeling it had been something else entirely she had wanted to say.

I smile lightly and run my hands up and down the backs of her arms.

“No, you were right before,” I say, “about taking care of yourself”—I laugh under my breath—“Dorian and Niklas, however, were ready to go in there and rescue you.”

She looks up at me, her eyebrows crumpling in her forehead.

“Niklas was going to rescue me?” She scoffs. “I’m sure that was just for show.”

“I don’t think so,” I tell her, but drop that subject because it’s not the important one.

Stepping up and pulling her closer, I press my lips to her forehead.

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