Echo's Crusade by JM Dragon

Author:JM Dragon [Dragon, JM]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Detective and Mystery Stories, Mystery & Detective, Fiction, Women, Lesbians, General, Love Stories
ISBN: 9781935216025
Google: Kn1OPgAACAAJ
Amazon: 1935216023
Publisher: Intaglio Publications
Published: 2009-04-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Roan paced her uncle’s outer office, and when the man behind the desk gave her several looks, she ground her teeth. Screw him, she thought, as he cleared his throat quietly at every turn she made.

Robert Douglas had worked with her uncle for ten years. He had been a clerical aide to her grand-father before he died of a heart attack at his desk while on the job. Roan was fourteen at the time.

As she grew older, Douglas had tried to persuade her to go out with him on several occasions when she had a meeting with her uncle. Of course, those meetings always ended in an argument, and Roan would storm out of the office. Her last rebuff had been extremely caustic and he ceased asking her out. Since that time, he’d stoked the fire more than once in the embittered battle between uncle and niece.

Douglas seemed to have enough of the pacing. “He’s going to be at least another fifteen minutes, Lieutenant. If this room gives you claustrophobia, why don’t you get yourself a cup of coffee or take a walk?”

Roan curled her lip. She didn’t like him. He was a slime ball. She classified him as someone you would never take home to meet the parents unless you were scraping the bottom of the barrel and someone had a gun to your head. She had a physical abhorrence for the man. “I’ll wait.”

She knew the clipped words angered the mild-mannered man.

It was hardly rocket science as to why she and her uncle didn’t get along. Roan knew her manner was brash and cold; her uncle, in complete contrast, was warm and enthusiastic. However, she heard the rumor mill. Her uncle’s enthusiasm manifested itself mainly with women…particularly the young ones. He liked to flirt. There had been rumors that rattled the doors now and again that his preference was for very young women, but that had only been rumor. Besides, he was divorced, so there were no barriers to his predilections, except the odd distention of certain supporters—older females.

“As you please. I heard through the grapevine that you’re in line for the medal of bravery. Pity you didn’t save the cop that died. Did you know that he had a young family?”

Roan stared at him. He was balding and bespectacled and had put on more and more weight over the years. The man knew every detail that Mahoney did about the shooting. She’d tried and failed to shield Bill Trimble.

She really didn’t know much about the man who dumbly tried to rush the house before the SWAT team was in place. Trimble had only become her partner the day before. It was hoped that he could learn from her. Her injury meant she couldn’t attend his funeral. Since that time, her own incapacity had prevented her from going to see his family. A timely reminder of something she had to do sooner rather than later. “The man who died deserves the medal,” she replied coldly.

Douglas caught her distaste of him in her glare.

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