City of Secrets by O'Neil De Noux

Author:O'Neil De Noux [Noux, O'Neil De]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Big Kiss Productions
Published: 2013-03-31T04:00:00+00:00

Part 4

A Warrior Faces His Enemy

Stella scrambling off the bed wakes Beau and Sad Lisa quivers as a wave from the lake rolls against her. Beau sits up, sees its dark out, reaches for his Glock atop the nightstand. There’s someone out on the pier. Beau moves to the end of the bed, stands and eases to the porthole looking out at the pier. In the pale yellow light there’s a dark shadow standing there, head turning around, moving to the gate to Sad Lisa.

“Beau! Don’t shoot. It’s me!”

Felicity Jones. Beau goes down and lets him in, puts on a pot of coffee. They sit at the galley table.

“I wanted to catch you before you got rolling tonight.” Felicity sips his coffee, makes a face. “Kinda strong.”

“It’s café noir. Cajun espresso only with coffee-and-chicory.”

“Got a message for you. From your lieutenant.”

Beau closes his eyes, puts a hand up to his brow. “He’s still across the river?”

“Yeah. Take the next two days off. Minimum.”

“Two days? No fuckin’ way. I’m in a zone right now.”

Felicity looks around the place. Stella is up on the sofa watching.

“I’ll take tonight off, but tomorrow night I’m going out again and since we’re talking shop, anything on any of the evidence, fingerprints? Did anyone ever ID the guy I shot by the goddamn fort? That’s the only body they didn’t get away with.”

“LAPD says Brown Ravens always take their bodies with them, at least try to. Raiding the coroner’s morgue once to get two of their leaders.” Felicity smiles now, pulls a sheet of paper from his shirt pocket, flaps it open, lays on the table next to his plate, reads from it –

“Amos Michael Lander, forty years old. POB: Shreveport. Nineteen arrests: burglary, theft, auto theft, possession cocaine, possession marijuana, felon in possession of a firearm, aggravated assault, armed robbery.” Felicity looks up, “Three times.” He looks back at the sheet. “Forcible rape and three counts of illegal use of an access card. Two convictions. Armed Robbery and burglary. LKA: 1312 Mazant Street. Ninth Ward.” He folds the paper. “Two warrants. Long Beach PD. First Degree Murder, 2004.”

“Long Beach, Mississippi?”

Felicity grimaces. “California. South L.A.” He laughs. “Sometimes you prove you’re Cajun. Mississippi?”

“They got murders there. I suppose.”

“Not anymore. Katrina wiped out Pass Christian and Long Beach was next door.”

They drink quietly for a while. Stella comes as close as the end of the sofa, but Beau knows she’s ready to bolt if the visitor moves.

Felicity puts his elbows on the table, covers his face with his hands. “There was a small fire in the Quarter and the fire department panicked. Put it out right away, but if the Quarter goes, there goes the city.

“Commander of the First District stopped counting the bullet holes in the building when he reached a hundred. They finally cleared out the Iberville Projects and the Louisiana National Guard’s boarding it up good and tight.”

No need to explain. The projects overlook the First District Station.

“We still only have a fraction of our men.

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