9. Kameron
Chapter nine
Kameron
I t’s been two weeks since I killed John. Everything went perfect from the kill, to setting up the driver, and then the crash. The murder has already become old news and I might even go as far as to say it was one my cleanest kills. A beautiful piece of art that shows off all my hard work and talent. The day I arrived home, Apollyon had the money deposited in my bank and my new future was in grasp.
That is until I’m woken up by a phone call at three in the morning from a man with one foot in the grave, ready to destroy any hope I had of living a normal life without having to take others.
“Do you know how a black widow kills its prey, Kameron?”
“Apollyon it's three in the morning why are you-” I’m abruptly cut off as he begins to speak again in an eerily calm voice.
“Once its prey has found its way into the web, the black widow will use his legs to wrap the victim in its silk. The widow will then haul it over to a resting place on its web, where it can then sink its fangs in and inject its venom.” His breathing grows into a sigh, and suddenly it feels as though my skin is crawling with the same creature he's speaking about. I sit up and turn on my bedside lamp, glancing down at my skin to be safe, even though I know I wont find anything.
“Apollyon, what’s going on?”
“It seems you have an insect in your web, Kameron. I sure do hope you can find the pest before things get taken too
far and I'm forced to make sure the blame lands on you and not my empire.” And with that, the line goes dead. The silence grows in my room until it’s suffocating, leaving me with lungs begging to expand. My mind races with images of the kill, wondering what I missed. The thoughts swirl together with the dreams I had for my future. The idea of settling down, starting a family, becoming the man my parents would've been proud of, mixes with the idea of me on death row.
Suddenly the buzz of a message coming through my phone slices through the thick air. I open it up and see a name.
Lilith Jones.