Buffalo Soldiers (An Upstate New York Mafia Tale Book 2) by Nicholas Denmon

Author:Nicholas Denmon [Denmon, Nicholas]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Publisher: D-Rated Novelists
Published: 2012-04-01T04:30:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Sydney watched as the red and white flashing lights of the ambulance took Alex and Charlotte Vaughn to Buffalo General. She felt like the weight of the vehicle decided to park on her shoulders. The tension in her neck nipped at her and she felt it pull on the tendons of her back like a marionette master. She rubbed her neck as Briggs walked up and placed a large calloused hand on her shoulder and kneaded it.

“Long day.” He had calmed a bit since they first arrived on the scene. Finding a lead seemed to have given him some measure of control over the situation. Sydney nodded, feeling his hand work its magic on her stiff neck. His hands were familiar to her and she needed that familiarity at the moment. “Who was that? He seemed pretty broken up. Is his lady friend going to make it?”

Sydney pulled away from Briggs’ hand and took a step away. “That was Alex Vaughn and the lady is his wife, Charlotte. And we don’t know.” She curled her nose, the smell of acrid smoke hung in the night air.

“The cop? Jesus, that guy can’t catch a break.”

Sydney barely heard Briggs. Her mind was on Alex’s face. The guy hadn’t even cried. The pain wrinkled out of his forehead and out of the corners of his eyes, but then it all seemed to disappear behind some self constructed barrier. He had even wanted information as to who was responsible.

As if reading her thoughts, Briggs grabbed her shoulder gently. “Syd, you didn’t give him any information about this did you? The guy has a bad vigilante habit.”

“I’m not a fucking idiot, Briggs. Of course not.” Sydney glanced at her cell phone. She had a dozen calls missed but none were from the Director and that was all she cared about.

“Whoa, I never said you were.” Briggs folded his arms and gave her that disapproving tightening of the lips that always seemed to annoy her more than it should. “Anyway,” Briggs did that too, he always changed the subject, “While you were talking to Vaughn I went ahead and called in to Dr. Tolbert and had her search the area of the video for anything. She found a bag and a cell phone. It matches the bag from the video on the girl taken by our spider-tattooed assholes.”

Sydney ran her hands through her dark hair; it felt oily even though she took a shower hours earlier. She glanced at Briggs, his big dark eyes dancing over her face. She could tell he was concerned. He didn’t deserve the snap she just regurgitated his way. “Good work Briggs. What would I do without you?”

Briggs finally let a small smile crack his face. The first since they were called to the Galleria. “Probably be director, I suppose.”

Sydney smiled back and began to walk towards the vans serving as the field headquarters. Briggs fell in at her side. “I want you to have Agent Conrad pull the phone records for that girl’s cell.

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