Bronzed Betrayals by Ritter Ames

Author:Ritter Ames [Ames, Ritter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: amateur sleuth;murder mystery series;international crime
ISBN: 9781635113549
Publisher: Henery Press
Published: 2018-04-02T17:31:27+00:00

Fourteen

We had just rejoined Thomas in the cab and asked him to drive back to Cassie’s flat when my phone rang. It was Nico. “Must be about the files you sent,” I said, hitting the speaker option. “Hi, you do know you don’t have to work on those files right away.”

“Sì, that’s not why I called.”

“Okay, what do you need?”

“You, here in Paris,” Nico replied.

“Me? Why?”

“I found Arlo—”

“Please don’t tell me he’s dead,” I jumped in. After everything that had happened in the past couple of days, this would be too much.

“Non, he’s alive, but in hiding. And he’ll only talk to you,” Nico explained. “He knows who you are, and your reputation. Says he won’t talk to anyone else. Said it is important he speaks directly to you.”

“You’re not going alone,” Jack warned, giving me the look I knew meant he wouldn’t compromise. Not that I would either at this point.

“I already told this to Arlo,” Nico said. “He understands. He is afraid.”

“This sounds like a trap,” Jack said.

“I don’t think so,” Nico said.

I stopped them before an argument started on the phone. “Nico, I can’t come to Paris right now because I can’t get permission to leave London. I tried again yesterday. Does Arlo know about Melanie being found dead in my room?”

“Sí, that’s one of the reasons he says he will only speak to you. He says Melanie is a part of this.”

“He worked with Colle?”

“I don’t know. He won’t tell me anything more than he has to speak to you.”

“We need to move slowly on an ultimatum like this,” Jack said.

“I agree.” To Nico, I asked, “Can you make contact with him again? Is he waiting to hear about a meet?”

“He calls me by phone, but it’s always a burner, and I cannot tell anything when I trace it except that he’s always in the Montmartre when he calls.”

“When he phones again, tell him that we’re working on getting me permission to leave, but we have no idea when it will happen. He has to understand this is an active police case, and until they narrow down a suspect I’m as viable as anyone else for the murder.”

“Wait,” Nico said. “Back up a second. The plan was CCT—”

“Nico, I’ll call you back in a bit,” Jack said, hitting the end button before cutting his eyes toward the back of Thomas’s head as the driver moved the cab through traffic. I nodded, getting his meaning since I’d been about to do the same thing. While Thomas had been completely trustworthy the month or more we’d known him, and he knew our business wasn’t just charity affairs and lunches out, neither of us wanted to test his ethics by letting him know too much too soon. It was one thing for him to be aware we ran after bad guys; another for him to realize I did some off-the-books reclamations when there wasn’t a legitimate way to recover stolen property.

Jack and I stared at one another for several seconds.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.