Money Trail

The news hit Thor like a wave crashing on a beach and throwing him off balance then spitting him onto the rocky shores of reality. Nurse Thompson, the angel of death who had tried unsuccessfully to silence Garnet with a poisoned needle had been eliminated so easily.

Dead. Obviously by the hand of whoever had hired her in the first place to kill Garnet. Thor was pleased. A person who was tasked with saving lives and decided to take away a life simply because of some money did not deserve to live. The only regret he felt was that he had not been able to get her to confess before her death.

The police were ruling the death as an accidental death, by some twist of fate so cruel that had felt preordained, the squad car which had been transporting her from the hospital to the station got into an accident suddenly they said. Witnesses to the event reported the speeding vehicle losing control on a slick road, spinning into oblivion. No foul play, they said. Just bad luck.

But Thor was not bu