Deep Cover Detective by Lena Diaz

Author:Lena Diaz
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Stiff from sitting at the desk by the window in her friend’s apartment, Silver closed the blinds and then worked off her bra from underneath her shirt. She pitched it onto the desk, kicked off her shoes and then carried all her drawings into the center of the living room.

She lay on her belly on the carpet, fanning the sketches out around her like a dealer in Vegas. She’d come here hoping the quiet and isolation would help her get her creative energy flowing and she’d finally be able to make all the pieces form the big picture she was searching for. But as she looked at everything, tapping her pencil against her bottom lip, she couldn’t seem to make the pieces fit. There was a key somewhere, something she was missing.

One of the people she’d drawn had to be the killer, had to be the man or woman at the top of the criminal food chain who had taken up residence in her hometown. But none of them were leaping out at her as the culprit. And her boss’s insistence on slow, methodical approaches meant she had little to show for the months she’d been here—other than setting up her B and B, which she barely even cared about anymore.

She rubbed her tired eyes. What she needed was a break, something that would really take her mind in a new direction. Then she could come back to the notes she’d written on each sketch and make it all make sense.

“Tell me I didn’t just get hissed at by a black panther outside.”

She jerked up, sitting on the backs of her legs as she clutched her pencil and pressed her hand across her galloping heart. Of all people to be standing in the middle of the living room of her friend’s upstairs apartment, Colton Graham was the last person she’d have expected.

His gaze dipped to her chest, reminding her that she’d taken off her bra. Heat flashed through her, and her pulse began to race as she stared up at him. He seemed to drag his gaze up with visible effort and cleared his throat.

“That was probably Sampson,” she said. “Faye’s pet.”

“Someone has a panther as a pet?”

“More or less. He shows up every few days, looking for food. Amy feeds him ground-up meat when Faye’s not here to take care of it.”

He swore beneath his breath. “I don’t care how tame he may seem to your friends. He’s still a wild animal, and dangerous.”

“He doesn’t have any teeth. He can’t hurt anyone.”

“Does he still have claws?”

“Hmm. Good point.” She looked past him to the door. It was closed, and he’d locked it, had even thrown the chain in place. “I thought you’d left for good. What are you doing here? And how did you find me?”

He looked at the floor, at her drawings. “Freddie told me where you were.” He moved around the end of the couch and knelt down beside her, looking at each of her pictures.

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