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Laura Love—Lilah’s o in a horrific plane crash She infa performance Muchissue throughout the series
Ted Pocher—billionaire CEO of the world’s fifth-largest privately held conglo to Lilah’s father in hopes of furthering her father’s political career He tried to do business with Kane and Mendez Enterprises but was turned down because of his rep for shady business deals
Beth Smith—blonde, tall, thin The new medical examiner in Suffolk County Lilah’s friend fro one of the assassin murder cases
CHAPTER ONE
It’s a fucking disaster, a downpour of epic proportions, the mother of all storms, that came out of nowhere The kind of storm that demands you hunker down in the company of Cheetos, strawberries, coffee and/or booze The latter choice, at least foron how irritated I am at the world at the tis inside and by a fire Not here, walking the Manhattan streets, with no umbrella, on my way to a crime scene I pull the hood of my rain jacket lower, down to my brow and round the corner to find a carnival of uniforhts, and an aue Rarely am I called in when the victi They talk toand breathing, not so much
My cellphone rings, and I halt, digging it fro at my caller ID, I find Kane’s nu off on the kind of business we don’t talk about but we pretend is so to be soent ould never cross the line Hi more than the CEO of Mendez Enterprises, a company deeply rooted in oil, not the man who took over the Mendez cartel when his father died He damn sure didn’t take on the Society, the deep state that secretly runs our governht call them, and force their retreat, even if only for thebut oiland start walking again I can’t walk onto the cri like I’m as
transparent as Kane ed to enter with the Society, at least not with this particular crime scene to think about
Nothing aboutcalled in on this case, a suspected serial killer’s involvement or not, makes sense, not when that request, per Director Murphy, er’s NYPD I’ruency assistance Hell, he doesn’t ask for help at all, and he doesn’t need it He’s so daood at what he does that he can look into the eyes of a killer and see a killer when so Poppins I don’t knohat he saw in o and started training me I just know that I don’t want to knohat he’ll see now
Cutting across the street, I beeline toward the yellow tape establishing the police perie at an NYPD ran site, and I don’t stop walking,outside the building that is the cri the beating of the stor an officer and hisI step in front of Carl, the beat cop who just let that happen, a cop I’ve known from years back when I worked at the local NYPD
“Lilah fucking Love,” he greets, because this isto LA with the FBI Everyone here knows that I like the word fuck The word fuck fucks with people If there was a book aboutLove Says Fuck You” And then all those delicate people who get their feelings hurt easily would go away, thank you, Jesus Unfortunately for Carl, before we’re through here, he’s going to be one of the people I offend “Heard you were in LA working for the FBI,” he says