The Devils Melody (The Shattered Symphony Duet #1)
Prologue
LENNOX
The crisp autumn air nips at my skin as I watch the fire Kage started.
The flames whip angrily as they devour the house of the man my brother and I just murdered in cold blood.
I glance over my shoulder, scanning our surroundings.
Everything is still, no movement, not a single soul in sight.
But that doesn’t mean someone isn’t coming.
I check my watch. A quarter past ten. We had an hour to get this job done, and we finished with time to spare. I turn to my brother, his face streaked with blood, and grin. Another one down.
Jonathan Castro was a shitty, despicable human.
Now, I’m no saint—neither is my brother—but this man was a rapist, a child molester.
His latest victim was only fifteen years old.
We couldn’t allow him to live any longer.
He deserved the death he received. Arguably, he deserved worse.
Something a little more…drawn out, if you will.
But after the third night of murdering these pieces of shits, I’m starting to feel the exhaustion creep in.
Not my brother, though. Never him. He lives for the kill.
He doesn’t like to bring up his past, and honestly, I couldn’t say that I blame him.
He had a rough and ugly start. But after learning the truth of his past, I couldn't let him take on this mission alone.
So here we are, just a couple of vigilantes for hire, tasked with taking out the trash.
A job like this leaves no room for mistakes.
One fuck up, one slip, and it could all come crashing down, leading the cops straight to us.
We’ve been at this for fifteen years now and have stayed undetected, we have Jimmy to thank for that.
He finds the jobs, we make the kill, and he sends in the clean up crew.
It’s a seamless system. Simple, yet effective.
All we have to do is follow it. No distractions, just precision and strict focus. That’s what I’ve been telling myself for the last decade, before we walked into that shitty bar and saw her.
One look. That’s all it took.
The mission was always supposed to come first.
Until her.
Our little bird.