Unhinged (Necessary Evils, #1)

by Onley James

“Who hires a—what?—sixteen-year-old to kill people? That’s how old you were when you did my dad, right?” Adam nodded, looking impressed, Noah wasn’t sure why. “I wasn’t hired. I don’t get paid. Community service, remember? I’m a mandatory volunteer.” Noah scoffed. “You can’t make it mandatory for somebody to volunteer their time.” “Tell that to my father,” Adam muttered. The pieces began falling into place for Noah. In the trailer, Adam had said, ‘we were raised for this.’ It had sounded like some Batman level vigilante bullshit last night when he was half asleep and fully high. But maybe Adam was serious. “Wait…your dad? Thomas Mulvaney is a…murderer?” Noah whispered. Adam snorted a laugh; then took a long drink of his coffee before saying, “Please, my father would never get his hands dirty like that. No, my father trained us to be murderers.” Noah sat on that sentence for a minute. “Us? Like…your brothers?” Adam shrugged, seemingly unbothered by the conversation, like they were discussing traffic. “I mean, you can’t fault his logic. My brothers and I are uniquely qualified to do what we do. And honestly, we turned out better than the doctors could have hoped, given our initial diagnoses.” A finger of unease ran along his spine. “Which was what?” Adam smiled softly, shaking his head. “I told you, I’m a psychopath.” Noah choked on the bite of pancake he’d just forked into his mouth, sparking a coughing fit that drew far more attention than he wanted. When it was over and t...