Bound to Die by Laurie Rockenbeck

Author:Laurie Rockenbeck
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781947234017
Publisher: Bane and Bodkin Press

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“Okay, Pearson. Fill me in on what they were all talking about in there.” Ivy buckled her seatbelt.

They got nothing out of the other employees. Wu worked at the loading bay as a foreman, checking in bundles from the shipping containers. He was in charge of opening and inspecting each shipment’s inventory against the shipping labels. He had a team of six, all Chinese.

Colchuck Down grouped workers by language. The Mandarin speakers were in receiving and shipping. The Spanish speakers pieced together fabrics at the heavy industrial sewing machines. The Vietnamese ran the strange funnels that forced the feathers into various products.

Court finished typing Wu’s address into the GPS. “Something is going on, but they are generally suspicious of cops. A few are illegal, and they didn’t want to be caught. They know that Wu is off work due to an injury, but no one was willing to talk about it. They were being super cryptic, even though they had no reason to think I could understand them. They’re uneasy about something. Maybe Mr. Wu will be more informative.”

Court got Ivy going in the right direction before checking his voice mail. One was from the uniformed officer sent to collect Audrey Drummond. He had located her taking a mud bath in a private suite of a swanky Eastside spa. No one at the spa had enough of a spine to order Drummond out of her sloppy cocoon and so she had not yet arrived at the station.

A text from his sister reminded him about dinner. One was from Cami telling him she needed to talk to him in person afterward. Maybe she’d drive him up to Belle Nuit, too.

Madeline had texted four times. One was a selfie that showed a picture of her reflection in the full-length mirror of his bathroom. The room was steamed over, her naked body swathed in seductive clouds. A thick dollop of shaving cream sat on her sweet mound. She held his straight razor in her free hand. The text read, Hope your day goes smoothly. He let out a small groan. Whether it was from the bad pun or the smoldering desire to touch her, he wasn’t sure.

“You okay, Pearson? You sound like you got hit in the stomach or something.”

Court cleared his throat, looking for words. “Uh, yeah. It’s nothing.” He hadn’t taken Madeline for a naked selfie kind of girl. Not that it was a bad thing. He didn’t mind receiving them, but he hoped she didn’t expect a response in kind. That was not going to happen.

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