Echo: A Linear Tactical Romantic Suspense Standalone by Janie Crouch

Author:Janie Crouch [Crouch, Janie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Calamittie Jane Publishing
Published: 2019-11-11T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 20

“There was a fucking dead cat in the box. Dead. Cat.” Everett paced back and forth, running his hands through his hair.

It was one of the few times Cade had seen his friend looking like anything less than a GQ model. Everett was like a lot of Nashville—very concerned about fashion without looking like he was concerned about fashion. His skinny jeans and Henley shirt looked a lot more rumpled than usual.

“And something similar happening at the house in Nashville a couple days ago? This shit is getting weird, Cade. Cut up cats. That’s right up there with boiling bunnies.”

Cade raised an eyebrow at Mark and gestured that he had the floor to speak.

It was four o’clock, and the all-hands meeting was in full swing. Everyone had already had a full day searching the forest for any sign of the perp while Gavin had gone over the box—treating it as a crime scene.

Cade had paid extra, including a signed CD and photo op, in order to get an electrician out to his house at the crack of dawn to get power restored.

They were all shook up. Mark’s news that something similar had happened two days before at the Nashville house had not helped the situation.

The big man crossed his arms over his chest. “Yes, almost exactly the same in Nashville. Someone cut the power to your house and left the box. Freaked out Daniels when he came by as his normal routine.”

Everett threw his hands up in the air. “Don’t you think that’s something you should’ve told us, Outlawson?”

Mark’s eyes narrowed. “You’ve been writing, Everett. I haven’t seen you for two days since you made it abundantly clear you didn’t want to be disturbed. Not to mention, I don’t work for you, I work for Cade.”

Everett blew out an exasperated breath and went back to pacing. Mark looked over at Cade. “You’ve got your hands full here too. No one in Nashville was hurt—”

“Except for the cat,” Everett muttered.

Now Mark let out a sigh. “Okay, granted, that seemed pretty sick. I had one of my men take the cat to a vet. It was cut up like this one, but the vet was positive the cat was dead before it was butchered. It was an old cat that had been euthanized.”

“Great, so we’ve got a card-carrying PETA member psycho.” Everett shook his head, glaring at Mark. “I feel so much better. This is bullshit.”

“Ev,” Cade said. “We’re all on the same side here. Mark would’ve told us as soon as he had something concrete to say.”

Cade hoped.

Then stopped. No, of course Mark would’ve told him right away if there was danger. Mark was one of the most highly-respected security team leaders in the business.

“There was no message, no fingerprints, nothing concrete.” Mark shrugged. “And yes, you would’ve been getting this information in the weekly security update. I would’ve preferred to have given you all the facts once we had actual facts to give.”

Everett was about to lose it again. Cade held out a hand to stop the eruption.

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