Dark City by Catherine Lee

Author:Catherine Lee [Lee, Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B01DTRFUY6
Barnesnoble: B01DTRFUY6
Publisher: Catherine Lee
Published: 2016-09-15T06:00:00+00:00

At the Gilmore house, it was immediately obvious Josh was in trouble. Cooper pulled into the driveway and exited quickly, Stocky jumping out of the passenger seat and coming around to the driver’s side where the action was. A tattooed youth, bigger in stature than Josh and much more physically imposing, had the lad in a headlock and was trying to get him to the ground. A couple more kids, these ones both tall and lanky, watched on. The youth seemed to have underestimated Josh’s anger, though, so it was turning out to be a surprisingly even match up. Cooper and Stocky flashed their badges as they each grabbed a fighter and held them on opposite sides of the small front yard.

“What’s this about?” Cooper heard Stocky ask Josh, but he didn’t stick around to hear the answer. He moved the tattooed youth as far away as possible, down the driveway and out onto the footpath, while Stocky took Josh in the other direction.

“What’s your name, mate?”

The youth shrugged himself out of Cooper’s grip and looked the detective up and down before finally giving an answer. “Luke.”

“Luke what?”

“Luke Veager. Who are you?”

“Detective Sergeant Cooper. You want to tell me what’s going on here, Luke?”

“Not really.” The staring competition lasted almost a minute. Cooper held his own, and Luke finally gave in. “Just a disagreement between mates, that’s all. Nothin’ for you lot to be worried about.”

“Right.” Cooper turned and caught sight of a car parked on the median strip, a Subaru Impreza that had obviously been lowered, numberplate starting with LV. “You know it’s illegal to park there, don’t you? You can’t block the footpath like that.”

“Are you going to give me a ticket, Mr Detective?”

“I might. And if I searched your car there, am I going to find anything illegal, Luke? Any substances you shouldn’t have?”

That wiped the smirk off his face.

“You got no right to search his car, man,” said one of the lanky duo watching on. “We weren’t doing anything wrong.”

Cooper turned to face the kid. “I just told you it’s illegally parked. That gives me the right to search it, if I want to.” He turned back to address Luke. “It just so happens that I don’t really want to. Too much paperwork, and I try to avoid paperwork this late in the day. So, with your need for privacy, and my need to remain paperwork free, what do you say we help each other out?”

Luke glanced nervously toward his car, then back to Cooper. He raised his head in a half nod. “What do you want to know?”

“What were you and Josh fighting about?”

“I told you, it was nothing. Just a disagreement among mates, that’s all.”

“You know what happened to his mother?”

“Yeah. That’s shit, that is. She was a nice lady.”

“So your mate’s mother gets killed, and you can’t be nice to him? You have to fight with him in his front yard? He was arrested yesterday for assault. Was that you, too?”

Luke suddenly found something very interesting about the tops of his own feet.

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