Painted Corpses: (Anonymous Series Book 2) by John Greyson

Author:John Greyson [Greyson, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-03-28T22:00:00+00:00

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T ara, the girl he just rescued, listens a hell of a lot better than Alyssa ever could. Anonymous told her to stay in the hotel room and she did. He told her to contact a relative that she could be safe with and to say nothing yet, and she did. He figured that by the time she realized that he isn't actually anywhere near affiliated with the police force, he would be very far lone gone. It isn't the best plan, but it is good enough for now. It is easy enough to see why she has been chosen. Her very presence seems to reflect that of a lamb. The perpetually frightened look, the way that she keeps cradling her slightly rounded stomach in her arms, the large doe eyes . . .

The phone rings.

Anonymous motions that he is going to have to take the call outside.

"Anonymous?"

"Bailey?" Her voice sounds strange. Well, stranger than usual. All of her normal, sardonic bite is gone. He is so accustomed to her being there to make light of whatever life-threatening position he has found himself in that he hasn’t realized it is possible to miss her. For so long--as long as he can remember really--she has been the only constant in his life. The one being that he never has to question. Once upon a time.

"Status update; you are cleared for lethal force. Scarlet has verified your claims that he is a real threat and he needs to be stopped at all costs."

"No shit!" he whispers, pulling the door closed so that Tara doesn't hear "and the civilian?"

"Do as you like with her. We can purchase her a bus pass, if needed. Don't want to blow your cover." Bailey sounds almost tired on the other end. He wants to ask Bailey what is wrong, but with her comments about his visions, he is no longer certain that he can trust her. Their conversations have been far too tense lately.

They work for the same people. Anonymous has been fed the same scripts so many times that he has blindly accepted them as truths. Scarlet is there to help. Scarlet is there to help those who cannot or will not help themselves, even if they do not know that they need help. Scarlet is helping to build a better humanity.

"We have tracked his location via satellite and are sending you his last known location now."

The phone buzzes against his face in confirmation.

"Great!"

"Do you still want to continue our little deal, Anonymous?" Bailey’s voice is careful. He assumes that she means learning more about his past. She hadn't even honored their deal on the last mission. It was the only time that he had ever asked anything of Bailey. He had never asked questions; he had never needed more mission detail than Scarlet had given him, but before his last case, the one where he had met Alyssa, he had asked about his past. He hadn’t known why then; there wasn’t a particular trigger that he could have blamed.

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