Deep Burn (Station Seventeen Book 2) by Kimberly Kincaid

Author:Kimberly Kincaid [Kincaid, Kimberly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kimberly Kincaid Romance
Published: 2017-06-12T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Of all the things James Capelli could have possibly said to her, this one stunned Shae the most. But truly, their attempt to work together last night was case in point that he lived to argue with her and her theories. No way was he really sitting here, wearing that fiercely serious expression that somehow managed to torque her up and turn her on all at the same time, telling her she was right about this case.

Was he?

“I’m right,” Shae ventured, painting the words with a heavy layer of what’s-the-catch.

But Capelli’s nod was all certainty. “You are. Look.”

Fingers flying over his keyboard, he scrolled through a handful of very official-looking documents on two of the screens on the lower section of the crazy six-way monitor-type thing mounted to the wall over his desk. “Nicky Bianchi is the sole owner of Fiorelli’s. He bought the place from his uncle two years ago, and even though the restaurant seems to do very little business, from the look of things, their books have been oddly flush the whole time.”

“You’re not actually surprised the place is a front, are you?” Maxwell asked, and okay yeah, even Shae—who didn’t know extortion from embezzlement, thank you very much—had figured out that the restaurant couldn’t possibly be a legitimate business.

“Hell no,” Capelli said. “But it is the only front in Nicky’s name. The rest of the Bianchi family’s businesses either belong to Luca or they’re registered to various shell corporations.”

Isabella blew out a breath of understanding. “So Fiorelli’s was Nicky’s baby.”

“Could be Luca needed someone to run the place. Or maybe it was a test to see if Nicky’s ready to move up the ranks.” Capelli gestured to the on-screen document, which looked like a deed to Shae, although her head was spinning hard enough for it to be a guess. Meth lab murders? Local mafia? This was getting outer limits.

Maxwell nodded, his dark eyes sharpening with the same sort of realization Capelli had reached a minute before. “Either way, if someone wanted to hit Nicky in a sore spot, burning the place down would be a pretty good way to do that.”

“So we’re looking at someone who had a beef not just with Bianchi, but the Scarlet Reapers too,” Isabella said.

Annnnd cue up a whole lot of goose bumps. “You think the guy who was in my apartment has it in for gangsters and gang bangers?” Shae asked.

“I think the guy who was in your apartment doesn’t want to get caught,” came Capelli’s quick answer, but it didn’t escape her notice that his shoulders had just gone all lock and load around his neck. “Whoever did this is really meticulous. Enough that the fire was nearly ruled accidental.”

“The local mob usually steers pretty clear of gangs, and vice versa,” Maxwell said. “It’s a turf thing. The good news is, the list of people associated with both is bound to be short.”

But something in the detective’s tone made her gut sink toward her boots, and before

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