Secrets in the Dark by Heather Graham

Author:Heather Graham
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Published: 2023-05-16T11:42:12+00:00

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They were leaving.

Heading out for a night on the town, thinking that they would find him. They were clever but, of course, he was smarter than they imagined.

Smarter than they were, and eventually, they would know that. They would know it—right before they died. He had something extremely special intended for Special Agent Della Hamilton, but he had decided now that all of them had to die.

Not an easy task, but he was up to it.

Seeing the door open and the team heading out, he melded in with a group of about ten college boys—all too far gone into their gin and tonics to notice a newcomer.

The oh-so-special international team had gotten the man Ripper had met as Grey. But in Ripper’s mind, Grey had been an idiot. Yes, Grey had managed two kills, but only because Ripper had been with him and because Ripper had kept his phone on, receiving minute directions from the Vampire King all the while.

The third kill had been Ripper’s.

All Ripper’s.

And he had done it right without help from anyone.

Aye, they were all out and about now, searching for him in the pubs of the city. And, of course, Ripper did frequent the pubs, he watched. He needed to know who was alone and who was not, who was friendly and who was smart enough to be wary of strangers. A pub setting was a good setting. People tended to be friendly. Americans loved pubs—they loved to be in a “pub” rather than a “bar.” And because everyone spoke at least a semblance of the English language, American women were easy to spot and find.

And because they tended to be friendly...

They were easy prey.

But for the team of special whatevers staying in the house by the church...

He hadn’t really conceived of the thought of taking them all out at first. He wanted the woman. Of all the victims in 1888, Mary Kelly had been young and beautiful—and a whore, of course, but young and beautiful. When the Ripper had finished with her...

Mary Kelly had been—according to most so-called scholars and Ripperologists—the last of the Ripper’s victims. And he had been able to spend time with her—she’d been the only one killed in an apartment. He’d flayed most of her skin from her body, including her face. She had been unrecognizable as a human being. The apartment had been covered in her blood, in flesh, in body matter...

Ripper could just imagine the house where they were staying.

What he would do to Special Agent Della Hamilton. He would have time, lots of time, and he would use it all to good advantage.

How he would leave the house, bathed in blood, her blood... Maybe he’d drink just a little bit of it, too, in memory of the Vampire King, locked away across the pond.

Of course, as Ripper was always smart and careful, he’d watched. They thought that they watched. No, he watched, with far greater superiority.

She was never alone. That was a problem. Problems, of course, were simply items that had to be put in order and figured out.

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