The Game Changer by Louise Phillips Read Free Book Online

laid them flat on the coffee table, realising the cut-out shapes were joined, each one forming an individual letter. They combined to make a sentence. She stared at the words, hardly believing what she was reading, and at the same time wondering what the message – ‘I REMEMBER YOU KATE’ – actually meant. The edges had been cut using pinking shears, a line of small triangles on each of the sides. Who remembered her? It couldn’t be him. Could it? Not after all this time, surely.
    She contemplated phoning Adam, but what could he add that her own two eyes didn’t tell her?
    It was then that she wondered if someone had followed her from her old house. She looked through the peep-hole in the front door,but didn’t see anything out of the ordinary. Nervous, she opened the door, looking left and right, jumping when she heard movement in the apartment above, her heart skipping, relieved that the communal hall was empty. But someone had been there. Someone had put that envelope under the door. It hadn’t been there when she arrived. It had to have been delivered when she’d heard the footsteps. How had someone managed to get into the building without a code? It didn’t make sense. But no matter how she thought about it, there was no denying one simple fact. Whoever had created the message knew where she lived.

The Game Changer
     
    DACNOMANIA : AN OBSESSION WITH KILLING, encompassing the method used, the level of terror and agony felt, including specific details of density of wound or wounds, and the length of time it takes a person to die.
    CENTRE OF LIGHTNESS
    20 Steps to Self-enlightenment Programme
    OBSERVATIONAL TARGET: Kate Pearson
    Visit to Apartment, 7 September 2015
    The boy, Charlie, delayed picking up his bag for school, and while the target was distracted at the front door, access was achieved. A momentary turn of her head facilitated the opportunity.
    The main bedroom was in mid-flux, the sheets and duvet half hanging off the bed, her discarded T-shirt and underwear still on the floor. The blinds were down, and the room was in semi-darkness. There were strands of her hair on a pillow. It smelt of jasmine. On rolling the hair like a miniature fluff-ball, her presence felt close.
    More smells were noted. She and her partner had made love at some point in the last twenty-four hours. The study door was locked, and a prolonged visit will be necessary to locate the key.
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    CENTRE OF LIGHTNESS
    20 Steps to Self-enlightenment Programme
    OBSERVATIONAL TARGET: Kate Pearson continued …
    Trust is where the true power game lies. Trust ensures minds will behave as the Game Changer wants them to.
    Scepticism, as always, is commonplace, but uncertainty feeds into the illusion of free choice. Ultimately, if people get what they want, or what they think they want, their initial scepticism will serve as proof that they have come to a conclusion on their own terms – and a shift in perspective will be achieved.
    The first note has been delivered to the target. This will send her in all kinds of directions. Doubt, uncertainty, unanswered questions are a distraction, and will feed into the overall objective. The subject will become further absorbed in the note and the identity of the sender.
    Action required :
    1) Revisit apartment
    2) Gain access to study
    3) Continue close observation
    4) Step up emotional pressure
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Addy
     
    ADDY KEPT HIS HANDS TUCKED DEEP INSIDE THE pockets of his grey hoody as he listened to ‘Work Song’ by Hozier on his iPod. He crossed the road at the mini-shopping centre near his house in Templeogue, an area made up of a series of interconnecting housing estates built in the early seventies, predominately occupied by middle-class families.
    Looking at his reflection in the newsagent’s window, he smiled – every afternoon after school he’d used the glass to check his height. There was a time when his reflection barely reached the Slush Puppie machine in the