Bodyguard Daddy by Childs Lisa

Author:Childs, Lisa [Childs, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-02-12T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Logan hadn’t interrogated a suspect in years, but he felt all of his old methods coming back to him. The long pause before asking a question. The unblinking stare. The blank expression to reveal none of his personal opinions.

They weren’t in an interrogation room. They were in the dining room of Milek’s condo. But Amber Talsma sat across the table from him as so many other suspects had during his time as a River City detective. Unlike those other suspects, however, Amber Talsma knew exactly what he was doing.

Her lips curved into a slight smile. “I see why you and Stacy fought for so many years before finally admitting how you really felt about each other.”

His lips twitched but he refused to smile—even at the mention of his beautiful wife and their previously tempestuous relationship. She was in the bedroom—playing with the nephew whose death she’d mourned for a year.

He was still angry with Amber over letting his wife suffer. But because he was a father, he also understood her doing whatever necessary to protect her child.

“You’re tough, Logan,” she said. “You’re also wasting your time.”

He was protecting her, too, since Milek had left the condo to meet with his brother. Logan felt a shiver of unease. While he loved his brothers-in-law like his brothers, he didn’t entirely trust them. He had only Milek’s word that Frank hadn’t told him who hired him.

The hit man hadn’t revealed his client during the phone conversation Nikki had recorded, but that didn’t mean he hadn’t been able to speak when Milek arrived alone at the nightclub. Maybe he’d made a deathbed admission.

“I’m not wasting my time,” he said, “if it helps us figure out who is after you.”

“I’m sure Agent Rus showed you the list of suspects I already gave him. Those are the only names I can think of—the suspects Gregory and I prosecuted together.”

Logan allowed a crack in his detective mask and sighed. “Nick spent a year trying to find a connection between one of them and the Ghost.” And despite how stubborn and determined his brother could be, he’d turned up nothing.

“Frank Campanelli was a professional,” she said. “While he’s been credited with many murders, it’s never been proved who hired him.”

Logan let a groan slip out. “I tried,” he murmured, remembering one of his biggest frustrations from his years on the force. Knowing someone had killed and not being able to prove it. “There was this doctor...”

She leaned forward and asked, “The one who had his malpractice case thrown out when the witnesses died?”

He nodded.

“I was going to prosecute the malpractice case,” she said. “I was pushing to increase the charges to manslaughter, though. The guy was drunk. He shouldn’t have been operating. The anesthesiologist and surgical assistant were going to testify to his condition...”

“Until they wound up dead.”

“It was too great a coincidence,” she said. “It had to be Dr. Gunz.”

Logan nodded again. And something else occurred to him. “Frank had a gunshot wound.”

“That’s what killed him,” she said.

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