Level 26: Dark Prophecy by Anthony E. Zuiker

Author:Anthony E. Zuiker [Zuiker, Anthony E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Thriller
ISBN: 9780525951858
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2010-10-14T04:00:00+00:00

chapter 41

There was no prelude, no foreplay, no conversation whatsoever. Dark quickly pulled her shirt—actually his shirt, he quickly noted—up over her head before beginning a frenzied exploration of her body. Graysmith tore at his clothes, too, commenting about the faint scent of incense on his shirt as she ripped it open. So where were you in Venice Beach? she tried to ask. But Dark smashed his mouth against hers, cutting off the comment mid-syllable. She quickly fought back, pinning him against the autopsy table with her legs, unbuckling his pants, sliding them past his hips.

“I know all about you, Dark,” she said. “I know what calms you. I know what excites you. Brenda Condor filed detailed reports.”

“Don’t,” Dark said, feeling the anger in his blood. “Don’t say that ” name.”

“I’m sorry.”

“Just don’t.”

Oh, Brenda Condor had fucked him good. He’d been vulnerable after Sibby’s death—jonesing for the physical connection they shared. If Sibby was his narcotic, then Dark was a junkie, and Condor had exploited this when she was keeping tabs on him for Wycoff. She’d even told him: I’m whatever you want me to be. Your psychologist. Your stand-in girlfriend. Your fantasy wife. Your partner. Your slut. Whatever it takes to keep you focused. After that fiasco, Dark promised himself he wouldn’t let it happen again. When he needed sex, he would seek it with anonymous professionals—not with anyone close to him, or who could potentially be close to him.

Like Graysmith.

But Dark told himself this was different. She wasn’t fucking her way inside his mind; Dark was trying to fuck his way into hers. She kept everything hidden beneath a layer of confidence and arrogance and hurt and flirtation that all seemed scripted—too studied to be real. He wanted to reduce her to her real self and watch what came slithering out.

At least that’s what he told himself.

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