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Chapter One

Sebastian

“Hey boss,” Welsh, our background specialist, knocks on ned to Violet’s route You want me to look into him?”

I set down the new B&T pistol I’ “Yeah, when did that happen?”

“I’nize hiuy up to the house The delivery dude wouldn’t leave the package unless he had a signature frouard, told hiate, but the dude refused Violet was pissed She’d been waiting for that package”

“Pissed at Marin?”

“No The delivery co them up and told them to redeliver it, but they said they couldn’t do it until the next day since the package is on the truck or she could come into the office after hours and pick it up herself”

That wasn’t going to happen Violet is agoraphobic and hasn’t left her ho time

“They apologized and said the driver was new, but it wouldn’t happen again,” Simon finishes

“Definitely run a check on hiuy Was he fired? Did he quit? Are any of them connected to Violet?”

“On it”

Violet wasn’t always housebound, but she got a stalker and he showed up everywhere--at her work, at her hoa He called and texted her non-stop She’d change her phone, but he’d find her again Finally, she reported it to the cops, but they told her that she should be flattered When he escalated fro shit in her car and home like dead animals and dead plants, her brother ith her to file a report, but the excuse they were given at that tiainst the law even though Violet was afraid to leave her house or answer her phone

The harassment went on for three ot hiets out soon Violet, on the other hand, hasn’t been able to leave her brother’s house since the kidnapping

The door to the shooting gallery bangs shut I screw the suppressor back onto the barrel and then twist the knob 90 degrees to load the cartridge

“You should stay in prison because accidents can happen out here in the real world” I fire a single shot down the lane into the red dot over the silhouette’s heart