“Exactly.”
Kate crossed her arms and paced the small waiting room back and forth.One of the movers glared at her through the window.She glared right back, and he ducked out of sight after a moment.“Okay, so she blows up the boat.Then she’s done.She got her revenge.She got away with it.She lives her life.”
“Only it’s not enough.The assholes who pulled her husband away and pushed her into the arms of another woman are still out there, still screwing up other perfectly good marriages.”
“Enter Elijah Cox,” Kate said.“Either he directly recruits her from prison via letters or phone calls, not likely, but I wouldn’t put anything out of Cox’s reach at this point, or she indirectly falls under his sphere by observing the other commandment killings and linking her husband’s infidelity to the seventh commandment.She decides she’s going to finish taking her revenge.”
“And best of all,” Marcus added, “she doesn’t have to feel guilty.She’s only performing God’s will by punishing those who lead others astray.”
Kate nodded.“We need to find her.Call Rivera.See if you can light a fire under his ass about the contact info.”
“Pretty sure he’s not moseying, Kate,” Marcus opined.
He lifted his phone from his pocket, though.Before he could dial the number, however, it rang.“Speak of the devil.”He answered.“Hey, Carlos.”
He listened for a moment.Then his eyes went wide.“Oh, shit.Okay, hold on a moment, I’m going to put you on speaker.”
He pressed the button and held the phone so Kate could listen in.“Go ahead, Carlos.”
“Kyle Maxwell is dead,” Rivera said.“One of his neighbors knew we were investigating him and got nosy.Heard sounds of a shredder and called nine-one-one to report him destroying evidence.It made its way through the grapevine, and I told the agents watching his building to go check it out.They found him in his back office next to the shredder, missing his favorite body part.”
Kate sighed.“Shit!Damn it!”
“Relax, Kate,” Marcus said.
“That’s what, five now?No, seven.She killed her ex and his new wife too.Damn it!”
“Kate, hold it together.”Over the phone, Marcus said.“Do you have an address for Caroline Bennett?”
“Yeah, I have one.”
"Send it now.Kate and I will go check it out.Put an APB out for her, too."
“Will do.You got something to write with, or do you want me to text you?”
“Text me.”
They left Dr.Hammond’s office.One of the movers started saying something petty, but a look at Kate’s face stifled whatever it was before he could say it aloud.
The two of them left the office and headed for the home of the woman Kate was now certain was their seventh commandment killer.In the back of her mind, she could hear Cox’s mocking laughter, see the mirthful gaze in his eyes.
And behind that, the cold darkness.The black hole that formed the core of his personality had sucked another person in, and that person had taken seven others with her on her descent to oblivion.
Kate was reminded of an old saying, one she’d always dismissed as sexism before but now understood the truth of.
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
