The Coldest Fear (Thriller) by Rick Reed

Author:Rick Reed
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Mystery, Thriller
ISBN: 9780786024841
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
Published: 2011-09-01T04:00:00+00:00

Jon Samuels watched the television with fascination. Another murder in Evansville. This time it was an older woman. A nurse.

Jon nuzzled the dog, which seemed to like laying its thirty pounds of weight across his meager lap. “What’s the world coming to, Cinderella?” he asked the dog. Cinderella cocked her shaggy head in that way that animals do when they seem to want to answer your question, but then they consider humans beneath them.

He’d found his apartment in a complete mess when he’d come back to it. He didn’t remember the police doing that, but maybe they had. Having all those people in his apartment had been very upsetting. He didn’t like being around large groups of people. That was one of the reasons that he had moved into the country.

After the police left, he had to get out of the apartment for a while. He went to see friends and had a couple of margaritas. He could remember the looks on the police officers’ faces when they found all those Victoria’s Secret items in his closet. The snickering that was just below the surface rankled him.

Jon had discovered he was gay at an early age, but it still bothered him when people looked down at him. He wasn’t “damaged” or “mental.” He was just who he was.

Now, sitting in his living room, on the same couch where he and Cordelia had so often sat and talked, it all seemed so unreal. Cordelia was dead and he was taking a cocktail of medications to combat a deadly illness. He didn’t feel safe anymore. And for some reason he thought about calling JJ. He would feel safe with JJ around. After all, they had been friends since they were children.

But since JJ had taken the job with the police department things had changed. JJ’s uncle was the police chief, and there was never a more homophobic individual born than Bob Johnson. JJ was a different person when he was in the presence of his uncle. Lately he had been less friendly even when the chief wasn’t around.

“Oh, Cordelia,” Jon said softly and began to cry. Cinderella laid her head on his leg.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.