Obsession

By Brendan DuBois

Attorney Kyle Foster hated his job and was bored with his wife Carol and life in general. One night he fell into the temptations of the forbidden pleasures offered in the Dark Web and started poking around… until the Dark Web poked back.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wildside Press
• Release date: Aug 6, 2022
• ISBN: 9781479466221

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OBSESSION, by Brendan DuBois

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

OBSESSION,

by Brendan DuBois

The day it ended, attorney Kyle Foster was in his office on Dartmouth Street in Boston when his secretary, Tara Lillington came in, a file folder held up to her impressive chest. Kyle looked at her with a quick glance, knowing that in this day and age, anything more than a five-second glance could get your ass in front of the firm’s standards committee quicker than you could spell harassment, so he tried to be a good boy, at least in that.

Kyle? she asked, in a heavy South Boston accent that for some reason he found adorable.

Yes, Tara, what is it?

There...there’s a man and woman here to see you. From the FBI.

Really? he said, glancing over the paperwork piled on his desk, looking for a deposition that he needed to review for a pre-trial hearing next Thursday. What do they want?

They want to talk to you, she said.

Well, I figured that out. Which client?

And the look on her face said it all.

No client, Kyle. They... they want to talk to you.

Oh.

And despite it all, he looked at his computer, there in his office.

Busted, he thought. Oh, so busted.

* * * *

It had all started a year ago. One of his clients had come in, months overdue on a bill. His name was Stanley Skiffington, and he had slouched in his chair and said, Sorry, the green ain’t there. All right?

No, it’s not all right, he said. Stanley, you’ve got to make some progress on payment, or...

Stanley laughed. He had rings through his nose, eyebrows, and ears. Kyle had gotten him off on a fraud case involving an Internet scheme—thank God for elderly jury members who didn’t know the difference between