Ambush (Sydney Rose Parnell Book 3) by Barbara Nickless

Author:Barbara Nickless [Nickless, Barbara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Amazon
Published: 2019-03-19T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 14

Hope is not a game plan.

—Sydney Parnell. Personal journal.

After I left Gorman, my blood still boiled under my skin. My hope was that he was doing more than he admitted to. And even if he had his head up his ass, I had the consolation that he wasn’t on his own. He’d be working alongside men and women who were still breathing clean air.

Regardless, I’d continue on my own path to find Kane’s killer.

When Clyde and I got into the truck, I ignored the option for air-conditioning and powered down the front windows, then headed west toward Littleton and the home of Sherri and Jeremy Kane. Clyde gleefully watched out the window, his tongue hanging out the side of his mouth. He looked like a kid who’d reached the front of the line at the ice cream truck.

Soon, Mason would stencil the Expedition with the same wording that appeared on my old vehicle: STAY BACK! K9 ON DUTY!

Anyone who read that and saw Clyde would have a good laugh.

“You should work on your image,” I told him.

Clyde wasn’t the least bit concerned about his image. He could switch from tongue to teeth in an instant.

I snapped on sunglasses, then took off my ball cap, fingered loose my braid, and let the wind sweep away the sweat from the roots of my hair. This was what passed in my life as communing with nature.

I’d visited Jeremy and Sherri Kane’s home once before, when I’d needed information about a case involving a member of Kane’s fireteam. I’d been impressed with Jeremy Kane on that visit because—despite a likely permanent disability due to an injury in Iraq—he was still hanging tight to his goal to become a medical doctor. It would be excruciatingly difficult, given his memory issues, but he’d been determined, and his wife had been supportive. Maybe he’d started working toward that dream before the end came.

I was less fond of Kane’s wife, Sherri. The daughter of a medical doctor and a socialite, she’d been born with a silver spoon in her mouth and clearly thought when she married Kane that she was going to maintain her social status. But if there’s anything I’ve learned, it’s that life will explode one land mine after another, even when all you’re trying to do is walk from the couch to the refrigerator. The war and Kane’s injury had thrown Sherri a grenade no one could catch with grace. Her husband had come home a hero. But he’d also come home with memory issues, a limp, PTSD, and a huge ration of cynicism that he hadn’t had before.

Jeremy had told me his wife didn’t like to hear about the war. But as far as he was concerned, that was okay. He hadn’t wanted to talk about it.

I took the Bowles Avenue exit from C-470 and headed back east. So far, there had been no hint of anyone following. At a traffic light, a couple of kids in a minivan waved at Clyde. He drooled and they squealed.

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