Scarred Roses, Burning Vengeance
Vincent had once told her he was the Viper, but he preferred to be called the Spider, because he thought Spiders were more cunning.
Now she was going to be that he had failed to be, because the spider had been squashed and his head torn. She would now be the Viper.
For the serpent’s way was to slither unseen, just like she had come to Vieuti without a single hint reaching him, not until the day she let him see her as she drove in the hospital park, to poison the well from within, just like she had done with her carefully chosen nurse, Jenny, and to strike, before watching the effects of its venom from a safe corner.
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