Pure Justice

By Alan Richards

A contract killer with a difference.

 

A police detective out to prove himself.

 

Their lives coincide with explosive results.

 

Amelia Johnson is a contract killer with a difference. She picks her targets. She eliminates the worst of humanity.

Michael Moran is a failed police detective. He stumbles across a case that looks like a professional hit. Is this the chance he has been waiting for to get his career back on track?

 

Amelia must keep one step ahead of Michael. Will she have to break her one rule and dispose of Michael to keep her secret safe?

Before she can make that decision, events take a tragic turn and Amelia must decide whether to save Michael's life or let him die.

 

Will keeping her secret win against her own humanity.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Alan Richards
• Release date: Mar 21, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201407780

Book preview

One

Amelia looked at the clock on her bedside table, seven AM. She would have normally been up by now, taken her early morning run and be getting breakfast... but not today. She rolled back over and pulled the quilt up over her head. It was at that moment that she heard the footsteps on the stairs followed by muffled voices the other side of her bedroom door. She couldn't make out what they were saying, but she could hear two, maybe three distinct voices. Two female, one male. Should she get out of bed, would that help her situation? She decided against it. The door handle turned slowly as she poked her head above the quilt. She quickly popped her head back under the quilt. She didn't want to lose her element of surprise if she needed it.

The slow and gentle footsteps got closer to the bed. They stopped on the side opposite where she was lay; she readied herself. She would only get one chance. Her muscles were tensed.

Surprise, happy birthday mum.

The weight of her youngest daughter, Miranda, landed on her stomach. She let out a yell of surprise for Miranda's benefit. She looked over to see her twins Olivia and George standing at the side of the bed. They were older than Miranda and so hadn't been fooled by the yell of surprise or the pretending to be asleep. They knew their mother well. She had done the same for them when they were Miranda's age and it had been their father who had been holding the breakfast trays.

What have you brought me for breakfast?

Toast and marmalade and some coffee to start with, replied Olivia. With a full English breakfast to follow it up.

Lovely.

The twins put the breakfast trays on the bed as Miranda pushed a wrapped present in front of her mother.

What's this I wonder?

It's your birthday present. It's a special one that Olivia and George helped me pick.

Thank you.

She ripped off the wrapping paper to find a beautiful black wood picture frame. The picture in the frame was of all the family, herself, her three children and her husband. All of them smiling widely at the camera.

I wish daddy was here, said Miranda.

So do I.

I miss him.

We all do... now get dressed while I eat my breakfast.

Okay.

Miranda leapt from the bed, raced out of the bedroom and down to her first-floor bedroom.

Thank you both, she said, smiling at the twins.

That's okay Mum, she will figure out eventually that you are never asleep though.

I know. Just let her enjoy it for now.

The twins left the room. She looked again at the picture in the frame. She clasped it and stared at the smiling face of her husband. Daniel had been the love of her life. Together they had three beautiful children, they were happy. He had been taken from them by a drunk driver two Christmases ago. Tears fell down her cheeks. She couldn't help it. His smiling face looking back at her brought back all the feelings she had felt that fateful night. It had been eighteen months since his death, but the feeling of loss, sadness, and anger were still very raw.

The fact she had slit the throat of her husband's killer and watched him bleed out had diminished none of those feelings.

Amelia has spent the day with her favourite people; her children. They had been shopping for a dress for the posh restaurant she was being taken to by her sister for her birthday meal tonight. She was knackered, but she had promised to go and couldn't back out now. As well as shopping, they had been for milkshakes and donuts at the milkshake bar in town.