Daddy P.I. 2.0 (Daddy P.I. Casefiles) by E J Frost

Author:E J Frost [Frost, E J]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-10-01T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 12

What is it with my fucking exes?

Miranda’s worse than Rachel. Did she think I didn’t notice her jabs at Emily? Or that I wasn’t fucking offended?

Were Mir and Rach both this catty when we were dating and I just didn’t see it? Or does the idea that I’ve finally found real happiness gall them so much?

Fuck them both.

I push thoughts of my exes away, a task that requires almost as much effort as not throttling them. Time to focus. Max has found, or, more likely, hacked, contact numbers for Laurel Radford. Time to find out if she’s behind Rick’s stalking. Then I’m going to take out my considerable frustrations on Emily’s ass. I haven’t given her a flogging in several days.

We’re overdue.

Hopefully, a long flogging will keep me calm through tomorrow, which is going to be another monumental exercise in self-control.

After leaving Emily playing adorably with her cat, I open my office safe and take out one of the handful of burner phones I keep in there. Dovie Donegan isn’t the only witness who’s ever blocked my number. I’ll use another burner to try Dovie again later, since it feels like she’s hiding something.

I set the burner phone on my desk, ready my notebook and pen, and tap in the numbers from Max’s email.

“Hello?” She answers on the first ring. She sounds relaxed, but her voice is a little rough, as though I’ve woken her, or maybe she has a cold.

“Laurel Radford?”

“Yes.”

“This is James Logan. I’m an investigator working for Rick Errol.”

“Oh.” She’s silent for a moment and I wait to see if she’s going to hang up. “Dovie told me you might try to reach me.”

I bet she did. “Are you willing to talk to me?”

“Yes. I don’t want anything more to do with Rick, though. That part of my life is done.”

Interesting. “What part of your life is that?”

“The partying. The stuff with Dovie and Damon.”

“Okay—”

She interrupts me. “Look, Dovie said she told you I’m engaged. I’m done with craziness. I’ve gotten my life together.”

Does she consider her past with Dovie and Damon craziness? A ménage is pretty tame in my book, but it might not be in hers. Either way, she clearly wants to distance herself from it, and that gives me leverage.

“Congratulations on your engagement. Rick doesn’t want to undermine your relationship in any way. That’s not why I’m calling.”

“Oh. Well, if it’s about Rick slapping me, tell him to forget it. I’d forgotten it, actually, until Dovie called.”

“So, no hard feelings?” I ask.

“Definitely not. We were all drunk. I was out of my head. If I’d been in his shoes, I’d have slapped me, too.”

This doesn’t sound like a woman who was plastering an allegation of rape all over the internet a few days ago. Or one with such deep rage and hatred she’d produce the Little Box of Horrors.

But she could just be a good liar.

“Do you mind if I ask you a few questions about the party?”

“No, but I’ll tell you up-front, I don’t remember it all that well.

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