Expired Game (Last Chance County Book 5) by Lisa Phillips

Author:Lisa Phillips [Phillips, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-09-26T23:00:00+00:00

Nineteen

“It was Pierce Cartwright?”

Bill’s jaw hardened under Jess’s stare. She figured her expression was pretty intense. How else was she supposed to get the information from him?

There was more. He was holding back, and her whole plan was to attempt to intimidate him into telling her not just who attacked him.

“Tell me, Bill.”

He only nodded.

That was good enough for now. Later Mia could get a statement from him, and that—along with his testimony—would be part of the DA’s pile of evidence against…

She could hardly even think it.

Pierce Cartwright. Ted’s dad was here. He’d killed Sally Peters. Jess shut her eyes for a second and felt Mia squeeze her shoulder.

The lieutenant said, “You expect us to believe that’s all of it?”

She opened her eyes to find Bill glaring at both of them.

Of course, Mia had already figured out what it took Jess much longer to realize. Hopefully the lieutenant wouldn’t hold that against her.

Ellie looked up from her phone. “Dean says they knew that. Ted looked at surveillance. He wants to know if we found the duty officer yet.”

Mia said, “Tell him Conroy and Donaldson are looking still.”

Jess tried to figure out why the duty officer wasn’t inside. He was either dead by now, or he’d been kidnapped. Would they get a ransom demand soon? Or would the two men find him somewhere, beyond help?

“Should I go help them?”

Mia shook her head. “Stay here, Officer Ridgeman.”

She didn’t argue with her lieutenant. Instead, Jess turned to Bill. “You’ve worked for this department for how many years?”

Bill swallowed. Not nervous. That wasn’t the expression on his face. He looked more like he was choked up because he’d been caught. Guilty and maybe slightly relieved they’d discovered the truth. He didn’t have to hide anymore.

Finally, he said, “Twenty-six years.”

So, longer than she’d been alive. “Do you know who the founders are?” She remembered then that Ted had identified them all. He’d also kept that fact to himself for several weeks while the rest of them waited for that intelligence. “Are you one of them?”

“Of course not. I’m not old enough.”

Jess rolled her eyes and stepped away while Mia kept asking him questions. Everyone in the room was listening. Ellie lifted her attention from her phone. “Dean said he and Ted are going to run an errand. He asked if I could go home with you instead, and he’d call me later.”

Jess would’ve slung her arm around her sister’s shoulder except it was bandaged. She leaned against the desk beside her and nudged Ellie with her shoulder.

Her sister shrugged. “It’s fine. They’re upset over their dad, and he’ll probably talk to me about it later.”

“He talks to you…about their dad?”

Ellie frowned. “Only a little, I think.”

“Huh.” She didn’t want to sound upset by that. They were engaged. She and Ted were… Jess didn’t know what they were.

Friends who felt like more, mixed in with some casual and ill-timed kissing, that nearly cost their lives?

Something like that.

Ellie gently nudged her back. In a low voice, she said, “You okay?”

Jess didn’t even know the answer to that.

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