Chapter 27: Missing Link

NATHAN

I stared at the offending medical gel in the cupboard.

I'd tired of staring at the remnant whip marks on Faye's skin and had gone to get this. I'd been sidelined looking for Jordan and then finding him dead.

I took it out and thrashed it.

Women like Faye were weak. Never defended themselves or anything they had and they always fell for men who were so wrong for them.

I laughed scornfully as I remembered her declaration of love when we'd been together and in the basement her father had kept her in.

The spineless love she thought she felt. She should know that love is nothing to be proud of. It was just a fickle emotion that drove people to their doom.

I took out the razor I'd come looking for in the cupboard and went to the bathroom.

Standing in front of the washroom mirror, I shaved my jaw, nicking myself a little.

I watched in the mirror as the skin healed up immediately.

I wiped at my face with a towel, moving to the closet to get dressed.

Ernouf had sent a report. He