Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author:Robert Galbraith
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2011
This Ain’t the Summer of Love
He had not managed to scrub off all her blood. A dark line like a
parenthesis lay under the middle fingernail of his left hand. He set to
digging it out, although he quite liked seeing it there: a memento of the
previous day’s pleasures. After a minute’s fruitless scraping, he put the
bloody nail in his mouth and sucked. The ferrous tang recalled the smell of
the torrent that had splashed wildly onto the tiled floor, spattering the walls,
drenching his jeans and turning the peach-colored bath towels—fluffy, dry
and neatly folded—into blood-soaked rags.
Colors seemed brighter this morning, the world a lovelier place. He felt
serene and uplifted, as though he had absorbed her, as though her life had
been transfused into him. They belonged to you once you had killed them:
it was a possession way beyond sex. Even to know how they looked at the
moment of death was an intimacy way past anything two living bodies
could experience.
With a thrill of excitement he reflected that nobody knew what he had
done, nor what he was planning to do next. He sucked his middle finger,
happy and at peace, leaning up against the warm wall in the weak April
sunshine, his eyes on the house opposite.
It was not a smart house. Ordinary. A nicer place to live, admittedly,
than the tiny flat where yesterday’s blood-stiffened clothing lay in black bin
bags, awaiting incineration, and where his knives lay gleaming, washed
clean with bleach, rammed up behind the U-bend under the kitchen sink.
This house had a small front garden, black railings and a lawn in need of
mowing. Two white front doors had been crammed together side by side,
showing that the three-story building had been converted into upper and
lower flats. A girl called Robin Ellacott lived on the ground floor. Though
he had made it his business to find out her real name, inside his own head
he called her The Secretary. He had just seen her pass in front of the bow
window, easily recognizable because of her bright hair.
Watching The Secretary was an extra, a pleasurable add-on. He had a
few hours spare so he had decided to come and look at her. Today was a day
of rest, between the glories of yesterday and tomorrow, between the
satisfaction of what had been done and the excitement of what would
happen next.
The right-hand door opened unexpectedly and The Secretary came out,
accompanied by a man.
Still leaning into the warm wall, he stared along the street with his
profile turned towards them, so that he might appear to be waiting for a
friend. Neither of them paid him any attention. They walked off up the
street, side by side. After he had given them a minute’s head start, he
decided to follow.
She was wearing jeans, a light jacket and flat-heeled boots. Her long
wavy hair was slightly ginger now that he saw her in the sunshine. He
thought he detected a slight reserve between the couple, who weren’t
talking to each other.
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