Evasive Action by Carol Ericson

Author:Carol Ericson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-03-06T19:17:10+00:00

Chapter Eleven

April gasped, throwing out her hand to keep her balance and hitting the door, her ring scraping the glass.

Clay’s head jerked up. He leveled his gun at her.

She staggered to her feet, waving her arms above her head. With her heart beating a mile a minute, she grabbed the handle of the slider.

Clay made a wide berth around Jimmy on the floor and yanked open the door. He reached through the space and dragged her inside. “What the hell are you doing here?”

“What the hell are you doing here? You killed Jimmy?” She shook off his hand and covered her mouth. “This is bad. This is so bad.”

“Just stop.” He pressed a finger against her lips. “I didn’t kill Jimmy. He was dead when I got here.”

Her relief caused the blood to rush to her head, and she pressed her fingertips against her temple. “Oh my God. H-how did he die?”

“Someone stabbed him to death.”

She poked her head around Clay’s frame and took in the saturation of blood on the Persian carpet, giving Jimmy a halo in death that he certainly never had in life.

“Is there anyone else here? Dead or alive?” She hoped there were no live ones...dead ones, either.

“There’s no one here. I could see in an instant the house was deserted, so I slipped inside. As soon as I entered this room, I could smell the blood.” Clay’s nostrils flared.

April sniffed the air and then wished she hadn’t. Once you smelled that odor of liquid metal, you couldn’t get it out of your head—or your mouth.

She ran her tongue over her teeth. “Is there any sign of a struggle throughout the house? Any sign of Adam?”

“No Adam. Struggle?” He cranked his head from side to side. “I don’t see it.”

“Las Moscas.” She clasped her hands in front of her, twisting her fingers. “They must’ve found out Jimmy was the one who sent those mules and then took care of business, but where are the others? Jimmy always had an entourage.”

“Maybe Las Moscas took care of them, too, and their bodies are elsewhere. Maybe some of them convinced Las Moscas they didn’t know about the betrayal, and the cartel took them back into the fold.”

“Where’s Adam, Clay?” She rubbed the goose bumps from her arms. “Now I’m more worried than ever. At least Adam had a relationship with Jimmy. If Adam did take that flash drive and gave it back to Jimmy, Jimmy might show some mercy. But Las Moscas? They don’t show mercy, do they?”

“No.” He holstered the gun that had been dangling at his side all this time. “We need to talk to Kenzie to get a clearer picture of what went down at your apartment. We’ll leave this mess to the police. When Espinoza comes looking for Jesus or Gilbert or whatever he’s calling himself, it’s going to lead him to Jimmy Verdugo and it’ll be up to the Albuquerque PD to process this crime scene.”

She clutched the neckline of her shirt. “We need to get rid of our fingerprints.

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