Bloodlust

Bloodlust

Author: Sandra Brown Listening Length: 12h 29m

Two years ago, Detective Mitch Haskell lost his wife to a vicious act of retribution, and has since attributed her murder to two men: Roland Malone and the unidentified mastermind of the crime known only as Oz. Malone, a ruthless executioner and drug dealer who fronts as a restaurant owner, neutralizes so cleanly that ...

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He drove around to the back of the store where the pickup couldn’t be seen from the road. First, he pulled away the wrap he’d taken from Dylan, which had stanched the blood flow by absorbing a lot of it. Looking at her apologetically, he tossed it onto the floorboard.

Next, he awkwardly took off the jacket and another two layers of garments he used for his homeless disguise. Under them he’d worn one of his own T-shirts. The left side of it was solid red now, but the blood was already drying and sticking the cloth to his skin.

“Well, doc, you’ll be glad to know that I’m not gonna bleed out on you. It’s congealing.”

After gingerly peeling away the T-shirt, he pulled it over his head and assessed the wound more closely. The cut was deepest just beneath the left side of his rib cage, tapering off as it arced across his abdomen toward his navel.