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Chapter 71

INT. - SILVER CITY MORGUE - EVENING

Ray looked up from the open Y-incision of a dead sixteen year old boy and into the creepily smiling face of Jackson Pierce. She admitted he usually gave her the willies just by being, but add to his smile the fact his black eyes were yellow and green around the edges, a burst blood vessel in his right eye making a lightning stroke of crimson across the white, and the glaring bandage keeping his septum straight just added to the creep factor.

"Can I help you, detective?" Ray straightened, pushing back the magnifying lens she'd been using, the bright, glaring illumination from the light over her head allowing for no shadow, only the stark brilliance of death.

He didn't even seem to notice, though his grin faded at her cold attitude. "I'm trying to reach Meyers." He said her name like it tasted bad in his mouth. Good. Ray hoped he choked on it. And if he ever touched her bottom with his disgusting hands-