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FBI SPECIAL AGENT MAX PRESCOTT closed the file he held
and stood for a long moment staring out the window at the dark expanse of
Lake Michigan. Steel gray clouds churned above the choppy surface of the
water, splintered by jagged forks of lightning, and rain fell in heavy, damp
sheets, chilling and cold.
Cold. Like him.
But the ice in his veins had everything to do with the case file he held
—Voleur.
A serial killer of children.
The case that was now handed off to the Justice Department, his job
finished. Not that he’d done much. Voleur had been captured by the woman
who’d spent seven years hunting him.
Him—her.
Them.
That the killer had started as one and ended as another was just one more
disturbing facet to an already grim case. But it was done now.
Except for the thousands of bones still being identified, and that was a job
for the forensics team, not him.
No, he was free.
So why the hell didn’t he feel free?
Because the ice wasn’t only about Voleur.
It was about him, too.
About resigning himself to the atrocities of which men were capable;
about the endless blood that stained his hands. His battle for justice felt more
and more hollow, as if the ship was going down regardless of how hard or
how fast he bailed.
He’d spent most of his life chasing recompense. On the battlefield; in the
backwater. Blood for blood seemed to be the sole reparation—the only thing
that would save another—and yet he knew there had to be a better way.
But damned if he could find it.
Standing over a hole filled with the bones of children hadn’t helped.
Because while capital punishment was alive and well in Louisiana, and
Voleur would likely be executed, that redress remained profoundly
unsatisfying. The true price for the slaughter of nearly sixty innocent souls
did not exist. There was no sentence long enough, no punishment a fair
exchange for the lives lost.
The idea was laughable.
And that was the problem. Ever since he was a kid, Max had aimed to be
on the right side. To be good, the antithesis of the bad that spawned him.
He’d gone to war to fight those who would destroy the world under the guise
of saving it, and he’d applied at Quantico to expand that mission, to help save
those who couldn’t save themselves. And he’d always gotten the job done.
Always moving forward onto the next case, the next problem to be solved.
His record reflected that. He was an exemplary agent, one who got shit done
and the bad guys put away.
Or dead.
And it had been enough for a while. Until he’d realized there was no end
in sight.
That there never would be.
Now it just felt…futile. As if the goal he’d dedicated himself to was no
more than a dream from which he’d abruptly awoken. And now—
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