Page 148 of Adored
This crypto key was proving elusive.
Breaking off, they went their separate ways. When the man reached the tree line, looking for any sign of them, what he didn’t realize was that he was not alone.
Not.
Even.
Close.
He had company, and he’d made a huge mistake. As a ghost, this was Gamble’s thing.
Hide-and-seek with the enemy was his job in the Marines. You didn’t become a ghost if you weren’t able to blend in and sneak up on your prey.
And that was what this man was.
PREY.
Nothing made a person more dangerous than when you tried to hurt what was cherished and loved. Poe was off limits, and Von had annoyed him.
So his men had to pay.
The whole time he was stalking him, he never saw Gamble once.
In fact, the man was three feet from him, and he had no clue that Gamble was right there.
Waiting.
As he stepped by him, Gamble popped up, had his knife in hand, and sliced his throat. The man gawked as blood squirted from his body, spraying the foliage, but he couldn’t shout or scream for help.
The look on his face said it all.
“Have fun in Hell, asshole,” he whispered. “You don’t fuck with a Marine, or his husband.”
The man’s eyes were huge as the blood ebbed from his gaping neck wound.
Well, a good rain would take care of that.
As the man dropped to the ground, the last of life leaving him, Gamble knew that he couldn’t leave a body lying around. How he wished Zayn was here. He was good at having the remains removed.
Now, Gamble was on his own, so he had to think on his feet.
Leaving him there for his partner in crime to find wasn’t an option.
It was time to hide the remains.
Dragging the man into the trees, he used his hands to dig into the dead leaves and debris under the trees.
Yeah, Poe was going to have to keep this estate closed down for a while until this dude decomposed.
If the cops got wind of this…
Jesus.
This was a mess.
He put the dead man on the bare dirt, and began covering him with leaves and all the decomposing material on the forest floor.
It was a good thing Poe had five hundred acres. They were going to be littering bodies everywhere at this rate.
