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Chapter 9

Author: Pwemi
last update publish date: 2026-06-05 05:21:45

Tilting his head backwards in shock, as a result of her response. "Because you walked into that interrogation room looking like someone who needed protecting and I—" He stopped, pressing his lips together, he shook his head in what looked like defeat. "It doesn't matter."

"It does matter," she said quietly. "Say it."

He looked at her for a long moment. The lamp light caught the line of his jaw, the tension still held there and the yearning in his eyes. When he spoke again his voice was differen
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  • Dr. KILLER    Chapter 9

    Tilting his head backwards in shock, as a result of her response. "Because you walked into that interrogation room looking like someone who needed protecting and I—" He stopped, pressing his lips together, he shook his head in what looked like defeat. "It doesn't matter.""It does matter," she said quietly. "Say it."He looked at her for a long moment. The lamp light caught the line of his jaw, the tension still held there and the yearning in his eyes. When he spoke again his voice was different. "I have spent ten years watching you build something extraordinary from nothing," he said. "I watched you put yourself through medical school while dealing with everything he put you through. I watched you open that hospital and name it Save the needy and I knew — I always knew — exactly why you chose that name." He paused. "You have spent your entire adult life protecting children and helpless adults that no one else was protecting. And he walked back into your life and I—" Another pause. "

  • Dr. KILLER    Chapter 8

    Noah lived on the third floor of a building that had no doorman and no intercom that worked properly. Karma had been here twice before — once for a small gathering he hosted after a promotion, once when she brought soup and paracetamol during a bad flu three winters ago. Both times, she had stood in this same hallway and thought that the building suited him. No pretense. No performance. Just solid walls and a door that opened when you knocked.She knocked.He opened it almost immediately, as though he had been standing on the other side waiting. He was out of uniform — dark trousers, a plain grey shirt with the sleeves rolled to the elbows. She noticed his forearms before she could stop herself. Strong and lean, with veins running beneath his skin as he moved, disappearing beneath the sleeves he had pushed up carelessly reminding her of ummmm. Shamelessly salivating and feeling the flow of her juices running down, she looked away immediately as he stepped back to let her in.The way

  • Dr. KILLER    Chapter 7

    Chapter 7Karma turned to look out the window. The city moved past — shops opening, people starting their days, the ordinary machinery of ordinary life grinding forward without interruption."No," she said. "There is nothing."He wrote something on his legal pad. She didn't ask what.Sandra was waiting in the hospital lobby.She had been Karma's assistant for four years — efficient, discreet, with a talent for appearing calm in every situation. But today, that talent was being tested. Her eyes were red, her usually perfect blazer slightly creased, as though she had slept in it or hadn't slept at all.She walked toward Karma the moment the doors opened and fell into step beside her without preamble."The board called twice more," Sandra said, her voice low. "The chair wants an emergency meeting this afternoon. The head of PR is asking for a statement. Three members of staff have already spoken to journalists — two of them to say they believe in you completely, one of them said—" She st

  • Dr. KILLER    Chapter 6

    Chapter 6Noah Adler stepped into the room, and for a moment neither of them spoke. He looked the same as he always did—broad-shouldered, jaw set, eyes that held too much thought behind them. But there were shadows under those eyes that hadn't been there the last time she saw him. He had not slept either.He pulled out the chair across from her and sat down. Set his hands flat on the table."Off the record," he said quietly.Karma said nothing."Did you do it?"The question sat between them like something alive. She looked at him—really looked. The way his eyes blinked rapidly when he was unsettled, the way he was holding himself together the same way she was. At the fact that he had come into this room alone, without Brennan, without the woman with the tight ponytail.Off the record."I went to the club," she said. "I went home, and I went to sleep."Noah closed his eyes briefly. Then opened them. "I told them you called me last night. That you sounded distressed, asking about your f

  • Dr. KILLER    Chapter 5

    Chapter 5The police car smelled like stale coffee and leather.Karma sat in the back seat, hands folded in her lap, watching the city pass through the tinted window. Buildings blurred into each other. Traffic lights, people walking in a hurry, an old woman walking a dog almost like she was crawling and the dog was frustrated with her, everything moved at its normal pace, as though the world was carrying on without her. “Noah knows. Shit!” She whispered under her breath. The thought sat heavy in her chest, pressing down like a hand around her throat. Not squeezing, just resting there. Reminding her she was in trouble. She replayed the phone conversation she had with Noah in her head. Which strip club? What kind of grieving daughter asks which strip club? She had been so focused on getting the information that she had not thought about how the question would sound later. How it would sound when a man as sharp as Noah replayed it in his own head at 3 AM, staring at the ceiling, pu

  • Dr. KILLER    Chapter 4

    Rosa's cleaning supplies fell to the floor and scattered. The spray bottle rolled across the carpet, leaving a trail of blue liquid running through the blood.The sound tore from her chest, echoing everywhere, filling the hallway as the once rowdy, loud and dirty hotel became empty that morning. She stumbled backward and hit the cart, which sent it crashing into the doorframe. Towels fell off the cart and scattered everywhere.Her hands shook as she fumbled in her apron looking for her phone. Still in shock and panicking, the phone fell off her hands. Shivering uncontrollably, she picked it up only to drop it again. Finally she decided it was better to punch the digits, whilst the phone was still on the floor."Nine—" Her voice cracked. She tried again. "Nine-one-one. I need—there's a—oh God, oh God—"The operator's voice came through, calm and distant. "What's your emergency?""Hotel Belvedere. Fourth floor. Room 447." Rosa couldn't look away from the body. She couldn't breathe eit

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