They had no place in his world other than serving a purpose.
Like the women he surrounded himself with, he knew when they had been used up, they were discarded.
So, Doctor Leonard was his target, but to make it more fun, for him, he’d added a little spice to the mix. There seemed to be two Russian spies floating around, and he had power and money, so he opted to get them in on the game.
All it took was putting some words out on theDark Webof the whereabouts of the Deputy Director, and that was all it would take.
Call it a hunch.
There was no doubt in his mind that would make this spicy and fun to watch.
So now, as he’d left his present inCorpus Christi, it was a matter of time to see if Elizabeth Blackhawk was truly the best opponent in this game, or if his father had miscalculated.
The apprentice was now the master.
And the game had already begun.
May the winner take the title and crown.
And the loser sink deeper into allThe Darkest Spaces.
For eternity.
Chapter One
Over The US
Private Jet
Race To Save Lives
While she was no stranger to crisscrossing the United States to do her job, Deputy Director Elizabeth Blackhawk was a stranger to her current situation. For her, this could quite possibly be the first time she was at a loss.
Yeah, most of the time, she was behind the eightball for some of her case, but as of late, she was chasing her own tail in one big circle.
And she knew it.
The one who got away was doing exactly what she and Doctor Ethan Blackhawk had assumed he would do.
Creating chaos.
The Grave Robberwas making her work for it, and work for it, she was.
That was anything but an understatement.
Elizabeth was well aware that she was in a race against time, and to stop innocent people from dying. The only problem was, this nutjob had been trained under the tutelage of a master killer.
With each time she researched Devon Slater’s father, they were just discovering the fallout of the man’s killings over the last three decades.
It was vast.
It was sick.
It was horrifying.
What began as a normal case for her, had spun off into a whole other realm of cuckoo, and she was struggling to keep it in check.
The Grave Robberwas running this, and for the first time in her life, she was at a killer’s mercy.
