Chapter 42

• Gabrielle POV.
• "Yes, do all it takes to make the transfer, you have a week, anything later and I'll take your head as compensation for the time wasted" I threatened and ended the call. I dragged my hands through my hair pacing the room. My phone pinged, and I glanced at the message. Hendrix was found dead, burnt to death, there was a couple more of my past lovers who had turned up dead, all burnt, and they bore the mark of the fire crazed freak, Burn Payne. I'd had him investigated once I knew he was in cohort with Genovese, it wasn't just because of that alone, he'd seemed familiar to me, there was something foreboding about him.
• The question that boggled my mind was why he chose to go after my past lovers... What sort of technique was that? Did he think I'd show myself if a chunk of my lover turned up dead, or maybe he wanted to get the location that I was hiding at by going after them, well he was barking up the wrong tree. I'd looked for a weakness that he had, but the guy didn't have anything to lose and he had a healthy appetite of never missing a kill. I shook my head, dragging my fingers through my scalp, Genovese was so desperate to have me gone that he sent a rapid dog after me. They had seemed close, I wonder if I was missing a connection.