Seeing Red by Lyra Evans

Author:Lyra Evans [Evans, Lyra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-02-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

Noor Juniper was the former CEO and founder of Desert Sun Productions. Former largely due to her contribution of a company sound stage to host the Selkie auction months prior. The fallout of that case hadn’t implicated her directly in any specific criminal act, but the board of directors of the company apparently decided the bad press was reason enough to force her out. They’d paid, of course, a hefty sum to take the company from her. But Niko was certain the exit had stung in ways she would never show. It was the only major ‘loss’ anyone from the evening suffered, and it was hardly suffering considering how much they’d paid her. Juniper did also have other companies to occupy her time, Niko was sure, but Desert Sun was the only one she’d founded alone.

She’d mostly disappeared from the spotlight following the announcement in the business section of every newspaper. There was never any direct mention of her name in conjunction with the case, which Niko suspected was very intentional, but he was certain Juniper would not forget what had caused her to lose her company. Nor who was responsible, in the end.

But given that Noor Juniper was usually only in the papers in photographs as part of glamourous celebrity events, it wasn’t terribly surprising Niko hadn’t heard much of her since. Winter was the low season for pretty much everything in Maeve’s Court. And though that didn’t mean an end to the customary partying unique to Fae, it did translate to the best time for many to take vacations up North. Niko supposed he’d assumed Noor Juniper was simply up in Nimueh’s Court visiting with her sort-of girlfriend Miranda Goshawk. At least, until he’d seen her in Chief Banyan’s sitting room. That she was acting on the Woods’ behalf with the Chief was surprising enough; Niko would have guessed she was too high up to be doing that kind of job. But now Preston was asserting Juniper was essentially acting as a killer for hire for the Woods, and that took some effort to believe.

“Noor Juniper,” Niko repeated, thinking of the woman of indeterminate age with powder blue hair and a skin-tight cocktail dress pleasuring Miranda Goshawk in public. “She’s Sade’s killer.” It wasn’t a question, but as Niko saw it, it wasn’t fact either.

“Based on what you said, yes,” Preston repeated. “She’s the only one I know that—a certain person—would trust in a matter this important and delicate. And she’s also the only one I know who would snap the way this killer did.”

Niko’s mind was still stuck on the few interactions he’d had with her. She’d obviously had the same penchant for violence and abuse that Preston and Ambert Redwood did, getting excited when they thought Cobalt had tortured and abused Niko to the point of shooting him in the chest for his own pleasure. But the assault on Sade hadn’t seemed rooted in pleasure in any fashion at all. It was rage Niko saw. Loathing.

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