Chapter 4 - The Blood Trail
I felt a sickening wave of guilt wash over my entire body.
I had blindly sent an innocent woman directly into a deadly trap.
Marcus knelt beside the blood and found a shattered burner phone under the sofa.
He quickly extracted the memory chip and plugged it into his portable laptop.
The phone belonged to the men who had ambushed Maria.
Marcus decrypted the last message sent from the device.
The message read that the target had been secured and relocated.
I looked at the recipient number on the screen.
It was Vanessa’s private cell phone number.
I had to get back to the estate before she realized I was missing.
I slipped back into our master bedroom just as the sun began to rise.
Vanessa turned over in the bed and smiled sweetly at me.
She walked downstairs and cheerfully brought me a fresh cup of black coffee.
I took a large sip to maintain my disguise of an ignorant husband.
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Within seconds, my vision blurred heavily and my chest began to burn.
I suddenly realized she was actively poisoning my drink.
