He tried to pull her hands away, but her grip was too strong.
“You’re in deep, Hayden.” Leaning in so that he could feel the chill radiating from her skin “Very, very deep.”
She was right about that. Stuck working for another one of Bob’s cult groupies, writing junk. Elevated junk, but still junk.
“Do you like her?” Mattie started swinging her legs, kicking him gently in the shins.
“Who?” But he knew she meant Elizabeth, his new boss. One of Bob’s weirdo pals.
“Yes, her.” She stopped kicking. “The Mistress.” She put her cold finger on Hayden’s lips. “Looks like you didn’t know. You thought Bob was the one pulling all the strings?” She laughed. “Get ready to dance puppet. The show is just starting.”
“I—I—”
“You want to say thank you for that little piece of intel?” She shoved him backward. “I may come back later and let you thank me.”
And then she jumped off the sink, skittered to the window, and disappeared into the bright, white of the winter morning.
About the Author
Isabelle Drake got her start writing confession stories for pulp magazines like True Confessions and True Love. Since publishing those first few stories she has written in multiple genres, earned an MFA in Creative Writing and became an English & Writing Professor.
When away from her keyboard, she watches films, especially classic noir, horror and romance, and reads (of course). An avid traveler, she’ll go just about anywhere—at least once—to meet people and get ideas.
Find Isabelle as Isabelle Drake on Facebook, Youtube and Goodreads & @isabelledrake on Instagram, Twitter and Tumblr & isadrake on Snapchat.
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