Angel kills people for money. Usually, they're bad people and the world is better off without them. He's really doing the world a favor and making money while at it. What's the harm? Then while he's in the middle of his current contract, the wife of the victim walks in. He decides to take her with him.
Astrid wasn't at all upset to see her husband die. Shocked, yes. Upset, never. Her husband wasn't a good man and she knew that first hand. She knew that her husband trafficked women and then harvested their organs for the black market when they were too used up for sex any more. That doesn't mean that she's not terrified of the guy that killed him, no matter how hot he was.
This is a dark, erotic short story. Kitty Thomas really gives you a full plot and wonderful characters that you instantly end up liking. The story will make you think. I really enjoyed this quick read. The only thing I would've liked more was more time with Angel and Astrid.
Until he'd seen Astrid, he'd been able to convince himself that his moral reasoning wasn't entirely disconnected from the rest of the world at large. Now there was no longer any doubt. He saw her. He wanted her. He took her. Simple as that. There was no justification needed, though he'd attempted to argue with himself about that. He'd done what any natural animal in the wild would have done.
**Book was provided to me by the author. This review is my opinion and was not requested or provoked in anyway by the author.