I have a thing for the guys that go from house to house cleaning people’s pools. It’s not a thing like my heart going pitter-pat because they’ve got these taut, tawny bods. No. It’s because a pool cleaner was my first kill.
I lived in Gainesville, Florida as a student and as an au pair. But you’ve heard that story before. Besides, this guy on the other side of the pool from me was happening now. He had collected the little Miller boy almost a week ago, from one of his pool clients.
Paulie Miller hadn’t shown up yet. I was hoping he was still alive. I knew it was false hope. Pedophiles never keep their prey that long. Still, it had taken Source several days longer than usual to get a bead on Donnie Talbot. But he did. Now I stood across the width of someone’s pool, dressed in black leathers and wearing a leather hood. I didn’t really care if Donnie figured out I was a woman. He wasn’t going to live long enough to tell.
Aubrey Carlisle is a First Grade teacher.
She’s also a masked, 6’2”, leather-wearing, motorcycle-riding, vengeance-driven killer of pedophiles. She finds them before the cops do. Then she calls and has them clean up after her. All of Miami thinks Aubrey is a man. That’s why the papers have mislabeled her Mr. Vengeance. Today Aubrey learns there are other types of abuse. And they are also ugly.
My real name is Neil Burrows and my one bit of celebrity was being abducted eight years ago. I won’t tell you what they did to me, but I can tell you my life has never been the same. I’ve spent these last eight years using my computer expertise to hunt down pedophiles. The cruelest one I call Cigarette Breath. because that’s what my then eight year old brain thought of every time he did things to me. I recruited Aubrey to work with me. I never leave my parents’ home. I just sit in my room, work the computers and feed Aubrey info. I am her Source.
It’s not easy making ends meet. Not with a struggling motorcycle repair shop. Things cost, you know? Plus, my son, he’s slow. I know I didn’t help, beating him like I have. But he has to learn. He was never like my older son. Maybe that is why I beat him. I don’t know. He just needs to learn.
My father beats me. He crippled my knee and destroyed my hand. He pulled me from school and makes me work in his shop so he can keep an eye on me. I feel like a mistreated prisoner with no way to escape.
Name’s Braver. Miami-Dade Detective Sergeant Tim Braver. Vengeance calls me to clean up after him. Just me. I don’t know why. The other detectives are starting to wonder. Yeah, I think it’s great that Vengeance is saving these kids. But the general consensus here is that Vengeance is no less a murderer than the pedophiles he kills. He should be in jail. Maybe death row. I’m not sure I agree. There would be a lot more dead kids without Vengeance.