Lies in the Dark: A Heart of Inferno Novel by Nicole Fanning
Author:Nicole Fanning [Fanning, Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-06-02T16:00:00+00:00
âDamn,â Rachel says, sighing deeply as we settle back into the study. âThat was different. I canât believe I let you talk to me like that.â
I smirk to myself, pouring us each a glass of wine.
âYou didnât seem to mind,â I look at her over the top of my glass.
âOh, I didnât,â she grins, biting her bottom lip. âI just donât usually let most people talk to me like that.â
âWell, I hope Iâm not like most people.â
I clear my throat, watching with satisfaction as the faintest of blushes settles across her cheeks as she smiles at me. Reaching forward she takes her glass from the coffee table and sits back on her couch.
âNo,â she whispers. âYouâre not.â
I canât explain why, but something about the way she says this makes my heart beat faster.
Rachel flips her hair back, grabbing a pillow and settling in against the corner of the couch, stretching out her legs.
Sheâs so beautiful, even when she isnât trying to be.
Especially when she isnât trying.
âSo,â she says. âWeâve concluded the dinner and dicking. Now Iâm ready for serial killers.â
âDinner and dicking,â I repeat, nearly snorting on my wine. âYou sure as hell have a way with words, Miss Valentine.â
âYeah, yeah, yeah,â she says waving me on. âLess compliments, more confessions, please and thank you.â
I laugh.
âAlright alright,â I say, crossing my legs. âWell, it took us nearly two months of investigating and tracking before we had our perpetrators. They were a couple, on the lower end of high-society, who looked eerily similar to the profile I crafted for Roger.â I say as Rachel kicks off her slippers.
âMartin Naveau, a forty-year-old architecture professor, and his art-gallery owning wife, Stella, had inserted themselves into one of the most prestigious and ultra private kink clubs in Manhattan.â
âAlmost exactly what you described,â Rachel says.
âAfter our intelligence team hacked their way onto the Naveauâs internet history, they found Stellaâs art for sale on the dark web. Art which consisted mostly of scarily accurate oil paint canvas recreations of the corpses we found in the woods in graphically lewd positions, selling a minimum of six figures a pop.â
âHoly shit.â Rachel gasps softly.
âAnd that was just a fraction of what her life-sized clay sculptures were going for,â I continue. âWe concluded that Martin and Stella mustâve been taking directly from the old adage about âlife imitating art,â but instead of paying a model to sit for long periods of posing time, decided to find models that didnât need to take breaksâ¦or oxygen.â
âPesky inconvenience,â Rachel winks at me.
âWe learned from their friends that Martin and Stella were up to their ears in debt, and were considered the poorest couple of their trust-fund social circles. We could only assume this led them to harbor a vicious disdain for the increasingly high table of Manhattanâs elite,â
âAnd come up with a way to strike back,â she nods.
âExactly. And after a few conversations with the connected facilitators, and the reasonable assurance of my informantâs anonymity, I learned that the couple were referred
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