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“She lures men?” I ask, remembering how she lured me, walking in here with that little black dress on that clung to her tits. How she came to collect on herthank me latertease, but fucking pretended like she wasn’t interested. It’s all part of her fucking game.
She lured me and seduced me, but she didn’t slaughter me. Not in the physical sense, but fuck, my heart is shredded with Libi being taken.
“Jesus, Kit. Are you really that dumb? The Seduction Slayer. The serial killer that’s been haunting Melbourne’s men. All predators, I might add.”
“The Seduction Slayer serial killer is Bell?”
“Shhhh!” Tillie hisses through the phone. “Not something you need to repeat out loud.”
It’s too fucking late. My team already heard it, but their eyes turn from me to Ghost, and a fucking chill ripples up my spine.
He fucking knew. That’s what he was talking about before.
The fucker simply shrugs and returns to texting on his phone.
“Look, I’m just as worried about Libi as you are, but Bell has nothing to do with it.” Tillie’s voice draws my attention again.
“How the fuck do you know she didn’t have anything to do with it?” I ask, turning away from my men to look out the front window and the glimmer of city lights in the distance. “You agreed she’s a psycho.”
“When you are someone she cares about, she would never harm you. She would kill for you, though. So the only thing you should be worried about is not if she helped orchestrate Libi’s kidnapping, but what roles will she play in getting her back.”
My heart sinks. Am I grasping at straws? Just trying to put the blame on someone else because I was the one who fucked up?
Maybe.
Wouldn’t be the first fucking time.
Shit… I don’t really think Bell had anything to do with this. She adores Libi. She’d never hurt her.
Bell Bishop isn’t like other women, Kit!
“Bell’s gone,” I tell my sister. “Her last text message said, ‘I’m as safe as a girl like me can be in a club full of gangsters.’You know what that means, right?”
I hear my sister’s sharp intake before she responds. “Yeah. Those gangsters are dead men. That’s what that means.”
“Be serious, Tills,” I snarl. “If Bell is who you say she is, it means she’s gone in without any intel on her mark, right? Like wouldn’t she normally study her victim? Plan things?”
“Shit. Yeah. She does do that. She’s very particular aboutthe setting. About the position and how it will look when it’s discovered.”
For a long beat, I’m fucking speechless.
“Kit? Are you there?”
I shake my head in disbelief. “You should analyse what you just told me and ask yourself if having a friend in your life like that is really alright.”
Tillie scoffs. “She takes pride in her work. There’s nothing wrong with that.”
“You’re missing the point,” I snap as Cipher crosses the room to me and holds up his phone to show me a message.
Serpents frequent Cronulla. Usually one of the pubs, but sometimes they go to the smaller bars and clubs. If you’re looking for them, that’s most likely where they will be. Cronulla.
“Fuck, gotta go, Tills. We just got a lead.”
CHAPTER 14
BELL
His eyesnever leave me as I step into the VIP area and saunter towards the man they call Snake. As I get closer, his eyes drop down my body, taking in the sway of my hips, and the tattoo peeking from under my dress on my thigh.
