Page 12 of Hacker Revelation

I tried to pry her away from my body so I could see her eyes. “You want to tell me who you’ve been killing? I thought you said you only killed this man because he followed you home.”

“That’s why I killedhim.” She pointed to the man lying at our feet.

I gritted my teeth and held back what I wanted to say. “Tell me about the others.”

“Fine. One of the girls at the shelter was brutally raped many times by a gang. She escaped to the facility and has been in hiding. She’s scared to be touched. The story she told me broke my heart.”

Kat had no sense of how dangerous her actions were. Taking on a gang of men was too much. She had a family to think about. She needed to rely on me and stop taking on the world by herself.

“You tracked these people down and took them out alone? When did you find time to do that?”

“I had help finding out about their motorcycle bar and routine. They left the bar every day at noon. I set up my sniper rifle and took them out on my lunch break. I have to tell you, I love the size of the Navigator we got.”

“You can’t spend your lunch break killing people. You are no longer an assassin!” I paced back and forth, trying to deal with my anger. “I didn’t buy you a big SUV so you could haul around dead bodies. The SUV is supposed to be large and safe.”

I heard Ant running toward our location in the backyard, and a groan escaped my throat. I didn’t have time to scoop him up before he saw the body lying at our feet.

“Mommy, is that a dead body?” Ant picked up a stick and poked the body. Our son would probably have nightmares. I knew I sure as hell would. My wife had taken out a biker gang on her lunch break, for heaven’s sake.

I reached down and pulled Ant into my arms then moved so he couldn’t see the body any longer. “You were supposed to be watching cartoons.”

“I saw you and Mommy in the backyard, and I wanted to play.”

I leaned over and kissed Kat on the forehead before passing our son over to her. “How about you take our son back inside while I take care of this?”

“Thank you for helping.”

“I will always be there for you, Kitty Kat. But this?” I pointed to the dead body. “You need to stop.”

Kat was heading toward the porch when she replied over her shoulder. “Next time I have an issue, I will call you before taking care of it myself. But if I don’t have a choice, I will take out the enemy.”

“Go inside,” I growled.

Once she and Ant had disappeared into the house, I reached for my phone and dialed Zane. He would give me shit about this for a long time, but Kat’s plan to feed the body to the alligators wouldn’t be an option.

The phone rang a couple times before he answered. Without a greeting, I got straight to the point. “Zane, do you know a good cleanup crew around here?”

“Is everyone okay?”

“Yes. My wife doesn’t like how the women at the shelter have been treated. She took someone out. Two of them followed her home, and instead of calling the cops, she led them into a trap and took one of them out.”

The laughter that exploded through the phone didn’t ease the headache I was experiencing because of my wife’s habits. She had spent her childhood learning how to take people out, and her adulthood was no different. I knew it would take time for her to adjust. I just didn’t expect the body count to be more than six in a month.

“Stop. Laughing. I have a dead body I need to get rid of.”

“Someone will be there within the hour.” He barely got the words out because he was still laughing so loud.

But I knew how to get back at him. Kat hadn’t done all the research on her own. She’d had help.

“Who do you think helped my wife with the other five bodies she put in the drainage tunnel, Zane? She fucking fed the dead bodies to alligators! How am I going to get rid of alligators when she keeps feeding them?”

The laughter stopped quickly when he figured out his fiancée had put herself in harm’s way. “I’ll have a talk with Soph.”

Feeling vindicated, I clicked the phone off and dragged the dead body to the side of the house. The cleanup crew would deal with it. I wanted to spend the night with my wife and kid.

From the porch, I could see Ant and Kat at the table, and I couldn’t believe how lucky I was to have them back in my life. Even if my wife liked to kill people.

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