Pretty Things by Devon McCormack

Author:Devon McCormack [McCormack, Devon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-01T16:00:00+00:00

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Liam, Kyle, Tara, and Mick spent the day working before regrouping in the living room that night.

I’d spent most of my time that day attempting to finish Hard Kill #7, one of the books Liam had picked up at the store. However, knowing how important the work they were doing was to our future—and how I wasn’t able to do a goddamn thing to help—kept me on edge and made focusing on anything next to impossible.

Tara navigated them through the information they had about the case at hand, discussing details of the victim agents before Mick presented pictures from the autopsy on the screen covering the fireplace.

I sat on the couch beside Liam once again, but shifted my attention away from the screen for that part. As easy as it was for me to get through horror movies, seeing real-life crap was a whole other story.

“Looking through the autopsy results,” Tara said, “in combination with those of victims from possible links to past hits from the IPB, and taking into consideration the report Liam and Mick generated, we haven’t managed to narrow down the list of suspects. Whoever did this either isn’t connected to a past hit from F5 or is working to make these killings appear different than their usual MO. A smart move, given they must’ve known that was the first place we’d look after we realized the connection with the task force operating during a specific period of time. Mick?”

Mick changed the slide, and as I peeked, I noticed it was a series of close-ups that weren’t as disgusting as the body parts previously on display.

“While Mick was searching through the images collected by the IPB, he came across markings on the body, and he looked for anything suspect that might offer us a clue as to who we’re dealing with here. We have cuts, stabs, shredding…”

Shredding? Oh my God! I could have thrown up just at the mention.

Tara went on, “But one mark we found caught our attention…Mick?”

He changed the slide again.

Deep scratch marks formed a very distinctive shape. Below a triangle with a long end pointing toward the right, two vertical lines curved outward on either side of it. At the center of the lines was a diamond-shaped scratch.

“Where was this on his body?” Liam asked.

“Lower back, near the spine,” Mick replied. “It’s some sort of symbol. We think maybe the killer left it. You know, boasting.”

“No, that’s not right,” Liam said. “If I’m Spencer and my hands are tied behind my back…how would I send a message to someone?”

Tara looked between Liam and the image on the screen. “You think he did this to himself?”

“No one torturing him would have done this, not when they were trying to cover their tracks. Not unless they wanted to send a big fuck-you to an organization that can rain hell upon them.”

As Liam studied the image, he seemed to be mentally working his way through his past, all he’d been boning up on—that entire world I was

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