A Place to Stay by Jennie Jones

Author:Jennie Jones
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin Enterprises, Australia Pty Ltd

Twelve

On Sunday morning, Luke let himself into the station at ten am, his body telling him he was tired, fractious and desperate for coffee. He’d been home to shower and change after spending the night watching the Laurensen house from across the road, using his own vehicle, camouflaged by dense scrub and mulga woodland. He noted signs that Donna and Davidson and another two officers had been in at the start of their shift at seven am. The coffee percolator had been left on so he poured a black coffee and headed to his office. He’d be spending the day here now, Sunday or not. Rostered day off or not.

He settled at his desk—not his favourite place, but he had no option but to sit at it and do the paperwork. First he called Jack. He picked up a pen and drew a doodle in the margin of one of twelve leave request forms. It would be Christmas soon, and some of his officers were going to be disappointed—or resigned to working through the holiday. He couldn’t say the same for their families though.

‘You have to give me time,’ Jack said when he answered. ‘I’ve got nothing to tell you. As soon as I know something, you’ll know.’

‘Not good enough, mate,’ Luke said. ‘I’ve been watching her all night. My resources are down and are about to drop further if the bikie party at Lake Laura kicks off.’

‘Yeah, heard about that.’

‘Call me the second you get the intel you’re after,’ Luke said.

‘Copy. Um—while I’ve got you on the phone—just wondering …’ Jack sounded guarded all of a sudden.

‘What?’ Luke asked, bracing for the worst.

‘How’s Jax?’

Luke opened his mouth to answer then paused. A few months ago Luke had driven Jax to Kalgirri to pick up her new car. He’d introduced her to Jack. Then Luke had been called back to Mt Maria and when he next saw Jax and asked her about Jack, she’d gone all stony-eyed and told him she neither knew nor cared.

‘She’s not bad,’ Luke said at last.

‘Right,’ Jack said. ‘Just wondered.’

He didn’t know what had gone on between them but it was something that had Jax believing Detective Maxwell was a skirt-chasing Jack-the-lad, which Luke supposed he had been at one stage.

‘What did happen between you two?’ Luke asked.

‘Not sure. Anyway, send her my best, would you?’

‘I’ve been giving her your best every time you ask me to. She doesn’t want it.’

Jack mumbled something.

‘What?’ Luke asked.

‘Nothing. Tell her I don’t like her either.’

‘Right.’ He cut the call and threw his pen onto the pile of leave forms in front of him. He didn’t have time to ponder the love lives of his two friends. He had his own to contemplate, if he could get his head into gear.

He’d probably manage some shut-eye in his chair, if he was lucky. He’d be up again tonight, all night. Unless he got Rachel to answer his questions later today, in which case there was a possibility he’d be up all night driving her, under arrest, to Kalgirri.

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