The Return of the
Vigilante Goddess
Prologue
Esther Scroggins was a private investigator. While married
to her first husband she owned a small investigation company. Then her husband
died from a fast-acting form of cancer. After being a widow for several years, Esther
itched for a change in her boring life. She was solicited and hired by a man
she knew only as Sam Little. Her job was as a hired assassin, a position she
never dreamed of ever accepting previously. But after hearing Sam Little’s
explanation of why the job was so necessary, she bought into it wholeheartedly.
While
working for Sam Little, Esther met and secretly married Bruno Martini, a work
associate also in Little’s employ. Bruno was a cheerful man unlike any she had
known previously. Esther considered him a truly great lover. Bruno was portly,
of Italian descent, balding, and a child of immigrant parents. Esther was a thinly
muscular redhead, taller than her husband by several inches, and had rarely
laughed until she fell in love with Bruno. They were truly opposites in almost
every way imaginable, but for whatever reason, they worked well together.
Bruno Martini
met an untimely and unexpected death in a huge explosion and fire in the garage
at their home. Esther was devastated beyond belief at her loss and cried nearly
uncontrollably many times.
She vowed
revenge for her husband’s death. Knowing Sam Little was at the heart of the
reason for his death, he ultimately died at the hands of Kate Sullivan. It was
retaliation for the contracted death of her husband, Bruno Martini.
Esther
completely stopped working at her investigation business for a while until she
recovered emotionally from Bruno’s death. She had truly loved him deeply. After
returning to her office and working alone again, Esther quickly grew weary of
the loneliness and the mundane tasks of investigating cheating spouses and
doing background checks of potential employees for corporations. She longed to
return to her part-time work as a paid assassin using her alias name of Kate
Sullivan. It was a calling she found she could not ignore. Mistakenly, she felt
it her duty to rid the world of certain types of criminals, killers who took
innocent lives and got away with it. Due to the circumstances of the volume of work
that eventually evolved, Esther found she needed help. After careful research she
quite unexpectedly discovered a person she thought would fit the bill. That
person was Brody Rogers, a police officer who was wrongly fired in Des Moines. Esther,
through skillful negotiation, brought Rogers
into the paid assassin work as her close associate. In time, after some period
of equivocation of reason, she married him. Brody Rogers was her third husband.
Then, quite
unexpectedly, Brody Rogers was killed in a tragic vehicle accident one night as
he was returning from the assignment of executing a woman the couple deemed
dangerous to them. After a very short period of mourning for his death, Esther
Rogers returned to her investigation business in Omaha, and ultimately to the type of work she
had learned to love, that of being a highly-paid assassin of the criminals who
escaped the proper justice of the courts for the crimes they committed.
This story
resumes where The Rise of the Vigilante
Goddess ended.
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