Colton Under Fire by Cindy Dees

Author:Cindy Dees
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-10-31T17:52:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Liam headed for the police station that had handled the April Thomas disappearance. He’d made an appointment with the detective in charge of the investigation, and the cop, a gray-haired veteran, walked Liam through everything they’d done to try to find the young woman.

The detective’s work had been meticulous. It took Liam an hour and the help of two cops and a secretary to make copies of all the documents, interviews and statements surrounding the search for the missing young woman.

But eventually, he carried a big cardboard file box out to his truck. The snow was really coming down hard now, accumulating fast. He had to push a good three inches of the stuff off the door handle to open it. He stowed the box of files and was just climbing into his truck when a cop called out from the doorway of the precinct.

“Hey! Are you Detective Kastor of the Roaring Springs PD?”

“Yeah, that’s me.”

“Just got a call from the front desk. A search warrant has arrived for you.”

Liam jogged back inside, pausing to shake snow off his shoulders. He followed the cop through the big building and signed for the sealed courier pouch that held his warrant.

Perfect. If he caught a lucky break, he could nail Ivan Durant, today. He pocketed the search warrant and hurried from the station, antsy to get to the house in east Denver before the occupant left and he had to wait another week for the guy to show up.

While he drove, Liam called a police operator and had himself patched through to the undercover cops staking out Gunther’s house. The officers verified to him that the occupant was still inside.

He parked in the next city block and slipped between houses to approach the stakeout vehicle from the passenger’s side, across the street from the house under observation. Snow was falling in big, fat flakes that blanketed the ground in several inches of white fluff.

Liam slid into the back seat of the stakeout car and introduced himself, and the pair of cops in the front seat did the same. The driver said, “When you execute the search warrant, we’ll back you up.”

No time like the present to find out who this dude was, and more importantly, who he worked for. Liam hopped out and jogged across the street.

The residence in question was a haggard brick ranch house that would have been chic in about 1960. The silver aluminum screen door sagged on its hinges, and the front door behind it desperately needed painting. Liam peered in the little diamond window at face height and saw a dark hallway and a narrow living room to the left. No sign of anyone inside.

He knocked on the door and heard movement beyond the living room. Probably a kitchen back that way. No one was forthcoming to answer the front door, however.

He knocked again.

This time he heard a sound that made him swear. A door opening and closing at the back of the house.

One of the

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