Reckoning by Catherine Coulter

Author:Catherine Coulter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2022-05-23T00:00:00+00:00

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Kirra’s Condo

SATURDAY MORNING

They know you’re Eliot Ness. Do they know you’re Allison Rendahl, too? Doesn’t matter, they want to kill you either way, like they killed your parents.

Kirra swiped her hand through her tangled hair, forced herself out of bed and into ancient sweats. She was brushing her teeth when the voice came out of nowhere—I see the little bitch! Let me do her. Then the words were gone, fast as a light switched off.

She stared at the face in the bathroom mirror, too pale, her eyes too shadowed. She looked afraid and hated it. She knew they wouldn’t stop trying. Jeter had told her the young killer’s name was Todd Winters, with a sheet longer than her arm, but she was his first try at murder. Kirra knew in her gut if Ryman Grissom had come for her himself yesterday, she’d be dead at the bottom of that gulley. She doubted Jeter would be able to trace Winters or his weapons back to Oliveras or Grissom.

She heard the voice more often now, sounding in her head, not a voice, really, but the words, like flashes of lightning. She closed her eyes. She was in very deep trouble. She wished she could speak to Jeter, confess everything, but he was a cop and she’d broken the law. She wouldn’t put him in that position. Kirra thought of her boss, Alec Speers, of other attorneys in the office, but she could no more speak to any of them than she could fly to the moon. She’d never felt so alone in her life. If Uncle Leo were here, she knew she couldn’t keep Eliot Ness from him, and if she told him, he’d take her back to Australia, or put his own life at risk. There was no one else she could tell, without putting a target on their back.

She said to the woman in the mirror, “I know Ryman was one of the two men who murdered my parents. I’m going to find out who the other one was, and put them both in prison.”

I see the little bitch, let me do her. The voice sounded in her mind again, sharp, vicious, and then it disappeared like smoke in a wind. She froze. Who was that second man? Ryman Grissom seemed to be a loner now, but fourteen years ago he’d had a partner.

When Kirra’s doorbell sounded, she flinched. She knew Officer Hendricks was in his car across the street, but he never came in. She didn’t have a gun, but she did have her razor-sharp Benchmade AXIS lock knife she’d used for years. She slipped it out of its pouch and walked quietly to the front door. She looked through the peephole, whooshed out a breath.

She knew that FBI face, it was Special Agent Griffin Hammersmith. Kirra pushed back the dead bolt, unhooked the chain, and opened the door. She hadn’t thought he’d be here this early. She gave him a big smile, actually relieved it wasn’t someone there to kill her.

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