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this was supposed to work.

The manā€™s nostrils flared. His eyes went wider, took on a distant, hazy appearanceā€”the kill look gathering power, building steam.

He raised the Beretta, away from Gloverā€™s knee, going higher.

And then Glover noticed something.

The manā€™s eyes.

They looked ā€¦ familiar.

No.

No, it couldnā€™t be.

The man was the same height, the same proportions, similar build, if a bit more muscular. Dark hair, too, yes.

But the face was completely different.

All angles and sharp lines. Brooding chic, like a fashion model or something.

Those cold eyes, too. They were dark brown, not bright green.

So it couldnā€™t be him.

But somehow ā€¦ it was.

It was him!

Gloverā€™s lips parted.

A slight change in expression on the foreign but somehow familiar face showed that the man knew Glover recognized him.

ā€œItā€™s you, isnā€™t it?ā€ Gloverā€™s voice was weak and pathetic, flavored by the tears building in his eyes.

The man didnā€™t reply. The Beretta continued to ascend, past chest level, to Gloverā€™s head, and stopped.

ā€œWhy are you doing this?ā€ Glover screamed.

The man blinked.

He lowered the gun, glanced to the floor.

But only for a moment.

Then, he looked Glover directly in the eye, that intense glare boring right through him.

ā€œFor Cecilia,ā€ the man growled.

He raised his gun.

And fired.

Chapter Two

Silence Jones eased onto the front porch, slowly, carefully transferring his weight onto his lead foot. The floor was concrete, an advantage to himā€”no creaking boards to give him away. But the porch was deep, as large as a back porch, and the night was quiet, so even his careful steps had the potential to make scuffling noises against the concrete.

It had been gray and miserable all day, and now, with evening approaching, a fraction of sunlight was beginning to pierce through the gloom. But that bit of light didnā€™t concern him. Noise was his enemy at the moment. And so far he hadnā€™t made a sound.

Excellent.

He couldnā€™t risk even the tiniest of noises. The person whom he was slipping past had superb hearing.

The individual wasnā€™t another member of Lukas Burtonā€™s gang. With Gloverā€™s execution a half hour earlier, Silence had eliminated all of those people. Except Burton himself.

No, the person he was trying to elude wasnā€™t nearly as dangerous as Burtonā€™s contingent. She wasnā€™t dangerous at all.

She was, in fact, a little, old, blind woman.

And she was Silenceā€™s only companion in this new life heā€™d been given. She was his next-door neighbor.

The only threat she posed was the fact that she monitored his drinking, and this watchdog quality of hers was an issue at the moment, because Silence most definitely needed a beverage after what had happened a half hour earlier.

And what was still to come that evening.

His mind was reeling, not from finishing off Gloverā€”which should have been profound enough, should have been a monumental, delectable moment for himā€”but because of the intel heā€™d squeezed from Glover before putting two rounds through the manā€™s skull.

The information was staggering, something that sent Silenceā€™s assignment careening precipitously into the dark unknown, proving that Burtonā€™s plan was much grander than anyone could have possibly imagined.

The implications were unthinkable.

The scale, massive.

Which, along with the fact that Silence just killed the second to last of the men who had stolen his fiancƩe from him, was the reason Silence held a plastic sack with a six-pack of beer.

One drink. Nothing that could impair him. Just something to smooth the edges.

Or, as his next-door neighbor would see it, something to feed Silenceā€™s habit, the monster that had emerged in his life since he lost C.C.

She meant well.

Silence would sip his beer while he pondered what he was to do next, how he could solve the new threat that Burton posed.

Because Glover had said that Burton was making his move.

Tonight.

At 8 p.m.

That gave Silence three hours to figure out where to find the man.

But if Silence was going to consume an alcoholic tonic to calm his pulsating, confused brain, he first had to escape the old woman next-door and make it into his house.

She sat only a few feet away, in the shadows of her front porch, her white eyes shining from the darkness like a pair of tiny judgmental searchlights.

He made it to the front door, slowly put his hand on the doorknob, noticed blood on his fingers.

His?

Gloverā€™s?

It didnā€™t matter. Heā€™d find out when he washed.

He eased the key into the deadbolt cylinder, turned. No sound. So far so good. The lock was new and well-oiled. While his house was built in the 1950s, many of the details, including most of the hardware, had been updated.

Another quarter turn. The brushed nickel beauty continued to work noiselessly. But Silence wasnā€™t optimistic, because he knew there would be that inevitable noise, the clunk, when the deadbolt fully retracted into the unlocked position. There was no avoiding it. A person with normal hearing would easily discern that sound, let alone a blind individual to whom hearing was amplified. But maybe Silence could lessen the sound if heā€”

The beer bottles clanked together.

ā€œSilence?ā€ Mrs. Enfieldā€™s little wavering voice called.

Shit.

Silence exhaled. He stepped to the far side of his porch, which terminated only a few feet from Mrs. Enfieldā€™s, separated by the gravel drive that ran between the two houses. His neighborā€™s tiny figure was on the green cushion of her porch swing, the empty white orbs of her eyes looking but not looking in his direction.

ā€œYes, maā€™am?ā€

ā€œCome over.ā€ She waved her hand.

Silence looked at the plastic sack, felt its comforting weight. Sighed. ā€œOne moment.ā€

There was a twinge in his throat with that last word, moment, a sting substantial enough to make him grimace. Every syllable he spoke brought pain, little movements from what felt like a permanently lodged knife, dulled with time and rust, but still effective. The more he spoke, the more it hurt, but sometimes the pain simply spiked for no apparent reason, as it had with moment.

He crossed the porch again, back to the front door. When he opened it, a pleasant gust of chilly air struck him. Humidity bothered him, and he lived in the most humid region of

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