Deadly Lover by Charlee Allden

Author:Charlee Allden [Allden, Charlee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780996179836
Amazon: 0996179836
Goodreads: 25216025
Publisher: Charlee Allden
Published: 2015-04-16T16:00:00+00:00

Lily hung back out of the circus as the press briefing got started. It had been set up in the hospital’s sixth floor lobby. Sean was doing his best to protect the crime scene and slow down the hackers that would be looking for internal security vid showing the incident.

The army of reporters fanned out in a colorful array facing the microphone where Sean, Bradley, and Jolaj stood ready to take questions. After Bradley made a short statement, the press took turns shouting questions. They started simple and safe, but all it took was one difficult question and they all started in, like sharks scenting blood in the water. “Law Keeper, how were you able to subdue the attacker?” The reporter’s tone relayed suspicion even as he smiled, showing shiny white teeth.

Jolaj spoke calmly and clearly. “The man was a med tech working in the technology exchange program. Not a trained fighter.”

“Are there many trained Ormney fighters?”

“We’re always told the Ormney are a peaceful race.” Another reporter mocked. “Do you consider yourself a trained fighter?”

“I’m a Law Keeper. Trained to serve and to protect, much like the human Metro Law Enforcement Officers.”

A short, pixyish woman shouted out the next question. “Why is it that what we seem to need protection from lately is you Ormney?”

“All Ormney are saddened by these incidents.”

Bradley stepped forward. “It’s important to remember the Ormney men involved are as much victims as the women who’ve been injured.”

“Injured? Two women have been murdered, Liaison Rubiero. Are you discounting those who’ve lost their lives?”

Bradley took on a grave, funeral parlor expression. “An Ormney life has also been lost and another Ormney citizen has been hospitalized as a result of today’s incident.”

“Was the Ormney involved today drugged, like the one who attacked a woman in The Mixer two days ago?”

Sean leaned over to the microphone. “The details of today’s incident are being investigated as we speak. We can’t say more until we have all the facts.”

Lily’s com signaled. Her mother’s name glowed on the display. Leaving the crowded area behind, she found a room down the hall, stepped inside. She tapped her com-link. “Mom? Is everything okay?”

She couldn’t remember the last time she’d heard from her mother.

“Your sister is hysterical. Heartbroken.” Her mother’s voice hadn’t changed. With a little more thought she remembered that her mother had been scolding her then too. “She says you’re having an affair with her husband. Lily, tell me this isn’t true.”

“Of course it isn’t,” she said automatically.

“Then how is it, she called him and caught the two of you in bed together?”

Lily didn’t need to see her mother’s face to know her jaw was clenched tight. Her elegantly arched eyebrows would be drawn together and her eyes would be flashing with that how-can-you-do-this-to-me look.

“We weren’t in bed together. We’re working together, that’s all.”

Carts and boxes of supplies littered the room around Lily. She paced her way around the obstacles and her mother lectured. “Lily, you can do better than that. Working together doesn’t require you to spend the night together.

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