Love Kills Twice by Rien Gray

Author:Rien Gray [Gray, Rien]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: LGBTQIA+, contemporary, assassin, artist, bi, dark, pan, nonbinary, interracial, murder-for-hire, murder, ex-military, guns, sexual tension
Publisher: NineStar Press, LLC
Published: 2021-01-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

CAMPBELL

Her taste lingers on the back of my tongue.

It’s a potent distraction compared to the dull necessity of examining blueprints and marking out the last details from the photos I took. Richard has a nice clean gap between one of his classes and when office hours officially start, and I’ll take another few days of observation to make sure he doesn’t have a habit of company during that time. Security will be no problem on a campus that size as long as I don’t make too much noise on my way out.

The timeline has Justine at work, but I’ll make sure she reinforces her alibi in a few other ways, just in case. I didn’t get my reputation by taking half measures, and it’s simply easier when the police have no reason to be suspicious at all.

Justine.

It’s too bad I won’t have the chance to tell Richard I took his wife to bed before I kill him. The look on his face would be priceless, but I need the element of surprise for a clean execution, and talking makes things messy.

I already know so much about both of them. They each offered me a scalpel to cut into the heart of their lives, their marriage. Richard was a lot more self-aggrandizing, but that’s to be expected. He wanted an easy escape, and she wants vengeance.

My notes are solid. I have enough time to get into Richard’s office and set up my rope trick, cut him down, and do a little rearrangement. Over thirty thousand people die a year from slipping and falling, often in the workplace. Most cops can’t even fathom the mechanics of what I do to suspect it, much less steer the investigation that way. Between contracts, I read a lot of forensic papers to make sure none of them are catching on.

If I’m real lucky, he’ll already be drinking. With any alcohol in the system, Richard skips from having a suspicious death right to being yet another preventable tragedy. Maybe the college will do a PSA about it. I smile, marking the last blueprint before pulling up my notes on the laptop.

Not a single blank is left. Birthday, blood type⁠—university health systems are painfully insecure⁠—and as many living relatives as a fine-toothed sweep could give me. That’s an extra precaution; I’ve known contractors who killed someone in witness protection without knowing it, or wiped out the sibling of a CIA agent. That kind of heat can end anyone’s career, and it’s not a good way to go.

I hover over the file folder, wondering how voyeuristic it would be to look at the notes I have on Justine. It’s not like I need them when the real woman was just with me, but there are a couple of pictures inside.

Two buzzes ripple through my phone: an incoming call.

“Hello?”

Sofia clears her throat before answering. “Hey. Got a minute?”

“That depends.” I lean back in my seat, letting my eyes drift away from the screen; better to not have the distraction.

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