Fifteen miles away, hidden between two buildings, kneeled Shane Pierce. Bruised and probably with broken ribs, but otherwise fine. This was all part of the plan. After all, he didn't wanna stop so soon. This was a game and he was winning. And killing Grayson now? Well, that would take away a lot of the fun—not all of it, granted, but a lot of it. As the Chicago Police Department started to panic and sweat at Brickfield Park and send troops and troops out to look for him, he laughed aloud at their extreme stupidity before promptly thrusting the knife up to the hilt into the chest of his thirty-fifth victim. And he laughed again as she screamed in agony. Yes, it was far from over.
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In the dead of night, at approximately three in the morning, murder was in the air and blood was drying on the ground. The smell of death floated around the city of Chicago.
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The Calm Before
ContoAfter finding a young girl murdered, Detective Cash Grayson and his partner, Fox Hartley, try to catch the killer.
