Darker Than Desire by Walker Shiloh

Author:Walker, Shiloh [Walker, Shiloh]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781466825901
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Stubborn, cold son of a bitch.

Sorenson studied David Sutter from across the table and tried to think of some way to crack the man’s icy exterior. So far, Sorenson hadn’t yet been able to so much as put even one small chip in it, much less crack it.

“You sure you don’t want some coffee?” Sorenson had been forced to stop drinking it thirty minutes ago, but if something didn’t give soon he’d have to step out of the room, and damned if he wanted that to happen. This was the first time he’d managed to get the bastard in the station and he planned on taking advantage of it.

Maybe he was skirting the line here—there didn’t seem to be a connection between Louisa’s vicious murder and the calm, methodical executions that had taken place here in town over the past few weeks. The only reason he had for bringing David in was the incident between them in the cemetery, and if Sutter had anything to do with her murder Sorensen would eat his hat.

Although the man had made his feelings about Louisa clear. She is—well, she was a vindictive bitch. That isn’t any reason for me to kill her.

He’d made that statement in a cool, flat voice, all the while staring Sorenson dead in the eyes.

David hadn’t asked for a lawyer, but at the moment he hadn’t said shit-all anybody could use, and he hadn’t said a damn thing to implicate himself or anybody else.

Of course, he hadn’t said much of anything that didn’t need to be pried from him with a crowbar.

When he remained silent over the offer of coffee, again, Sorenson just sighed and leaned back in his chair. A quick glance at the clock on the wall told him they’d been at this for over three hours, but only the first hour and a half had been going over the events of the past few days.

Then David had talked. In clear, concise sentences, he’d detailed what he’d been doing for the day, right up until the part where he and Sybil went inside her apartment.

Something had flickered in his eyes then.

And as much as Sorenson didn’t care to poke around in somebody’s private business, he decided that was what he needed to do. Poke around there, right there. Not because he gave a damn about what David and Sybil did, but if he hit the one area where David seemed to have a weakness maybe he’d lose that iron grip he had on his control.

With a casualness Sorenson didn’t really feel, he flipped back through his notes. “Let’s get back to talking about today,” he said easily.

“And here I was thinking that’s what this was all about,” David said mockingly. “Since Louisa died today. Not a few weeks ago, not twenty years ago. But thanks for the walk down memory lane.”

Sorenson shot David a look, but his eyes showed nothing. It was like staring at a pond frozen over. Icy blue. The chief just nodded absently. “You never know when the dots will connect, though.

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