Unfinished Business

Previously

…He traced the lines of the victim’s face in the photograph, a face that had once held dreams, now frozen in a silent scream. He imagined the terror, the helplessness. And he vowed, with a quiet intensity that burned in his eyes, that he would bring the monster responsible to justice. He didn't know it yet, but the serpent he was hunting was already coiled around him, its venomous gaze fixed on his every move. The game had begun, and the stakes were higher than anyone could possibly imagine.