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“What’s with the camera?”
“Oh, that.” He swipes his hand like it’s insignificant. “I’m videoing us, and later I will place sound over it. It’s amazing what AI technology can do now. I can have you saying anything I want.”
I know this game. “What do you want?”
“I can make all of these charges go away for Dante. It will be like it never happened.”
There it is.
“And what do I have to do?” I suck on my canine tooth, annoyed, while assessing McCain.
“I have to say this is a little surreal for me. You sitting in cuffs and me talking to you.”
“What do you want?” I ask again, my patience gone.
“I have one question. What made Sienna different?”
I can’t hide the shock that must resonate on my face. My eyes grow large before I can attempt to school my features. Now I’m taking a second look at this officer. His breathing is normal, a cocky smirk on his lips. He thinks he has me.
“What does this have to do with her?”
“Funny story. I think she thought you were coming back to knock on her door but she found me instead.”
My jaw clenches, every muscle involuntarily contracting. Rage simmers deep within my bones. I haven’t felt this type of reaction since I was a teenager.
“This is how it’s going to go…” He pauses for what I think is effect. I want to rip my cuffs off and go wolverine on him. “She’s fine. I’m keeping with your plan of sending her back to her father. Honestly, I think that’s the best idea you’ve had since you met her. I just wanted to talk to her to see what all the fuss was about.”
I can’t help myself and my hands pull at the cuffs, making the metal-on-metal ting and my wrists burn from the harsh pull.
“I have another fun fact that I think you’ll be interested in. I have it on good authority that this station is about to find the graveyard of your trophies.”
I scoff, “I burn my victims.” My mouth snaps closed as I realize what I just said.
Clayton covers his mouth and leans in. “That’s the thing, you don’t anymore. I’ve been a busy boy. I thought by now you would have wanted to meet me. I’m almost more famous than you, but I suppose they don’t know about me.”
My mouth dries. All the articles that Romeo kept showing me that I blew off. “You’re too unoriginal to do your own work, huh?”
“I like to call it smart, but tomayto, tomahto.” His head bounces right to left with each word.
“You’ll never get away with it. Our differences will be noticed.”
He leans back and chuckles. “This isn’t my first rodeo. I’m a fucking hero when it comes to serial killers. That’s why I was asked to come up here and leave my post. Every now and then different districts search me out and I find what no one else can.” He makes a kissing motion with his fingers in front of his mouth.
“She’s yours then.” I shrug. “I already said my goodbye to her.” My heart constricts as I say the words, but my face stays stoic.
“It’s killing you inside, isn’t it?” He wants a reaction from me, but he won’t get one.
“I thought you’ve done your homework. She betrayed my family and the entertainment value of her is gone now. You should know I have a short attention span when it comes to the pets I acquire.”
“I was thinking that too.” He waves his finger around. “But then I started to really take note. You love her. She’s different.”
I give him what I think is an unimpressed bored face. Sienna was never meant to be more than a plaything I enjoyed. She and I have run our course. Deep down, I knew she wouldn’t live long anyway. This guy is doing me a favor. He’s making himself the bad guy and not me or my family.
“I’d shake your hand if I could.” I nod toward my shackles. “I’d say you have everything under control. Just let me know when I can be on my merry way. Maybe tell me where the graveyard is as a professional courtesy, that way I won’t mess up what you clearly worked so hard to do.”
He sighs like this conversation pains him. “It’s not that easy anymore. You see, I don’t have the authority to let you go. The big wig here will have to take a look at the video, but he’s not going to like what he hears. You’ve just confessed to being the area’s most notorious serial killer. You’re making a lot of people’s careers in the next day or two.”
He gives me some weird ass look that I think is his evil grin. “But maybe I could help you out…”
