Fire Brand (City of Dragons Book 6) by Val St. Crowe

Author:Val St. Crowe [St. Crowe, Val]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Punk Rawk Books
Published: 2016-10-30T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

“You think he’ll go to that facility you told him about?” I asked. Lachlan and I were back in the office, peering at the whiteboard.

“I doubt it,” said Lachlan. “I think part of him wants to go, but I don’t think he’s enough in his right head to make that decision. An addiction like that is bad.”

“But he said that he wanted to stop. He went and got methodone,” I said. “I thought methodone was supposed to help.”

“In theory,” said Lachlan. “But what addicts really need are abstinence-based programs where they can get individual attention. They need to be taken out of their environment, not thrown back to their apartments and given methodone.”

“You feel kind of strongly about this,” I said.

“I worked narcotics before this,” said Lachlan.

“Right,” I said. “I guess you saw this kind of thing all the time.”

“Worst thing is that there’s nothing you can do for people when they’re that bad into it.”

I studied my fingernails. “When we were undercover with the Bryant clan, you used drugs.”

He gave me a funny look, obviously unsure why I’d brought this up. “Yeah?”

“Well, if you know how dangerous it is to be addicted, then why’d you do that?”

“I didn’t use heroin, Penny,” he said.

“Oh,” I said. “That one’s really bad, huh?”

He laughed at me, shaking his head. “You don’t know anything about drug addiction, do you?”

I shrugged. “Only a little, I guess.”

“There’s addiction and then there’s addiction,” he said. “Heroin addiction is… Well, I’ve never quite hated myself that much. I’ve hated myself a lot. I mean, that’s how I got messed up with the Bryant clan to begin with. Just didn’t much care what happened to me. Ready to try anything.”

“Not anything,” I said. “Not if you wouldn’t do heroin.”

“Almost anything,” he said.

“I’m glad you don’t hate yourself like that anymore,” I said.

His gaze flitted away from mine.

“You don’t, do you?”

“No,” he said hoarsely, still not looking at me. “No, I… you’re the best thing that ever happened to me, and you know that.”

I pressed close to him.

He put his arm around me.

We were quiet.

We stared at the whiteboard.

“Get a room, you two,” said Christy.

I turned. “Hey there, what are you doing here after hours?”

“Could ask you the same question,” she said.

“Well, we’re staying late to make up for the fact that we got in late,” said Lachlan. “What’s your excuse?”

“Oh, you know. Just trying to make heads or tails of my case.”

“Thought you were practically done with that,” said Lachlan.

“Thought so,” she said. “And then everything went sideways.” She nodded at our whiteboard. “Why don’t you guys run me through what’s up with yours? Maybe that’ll help me jog my head into finding a new angle on mine.”

“Not much to say, actually,” said Lachlan, heading up to the board. He took the picture of Dashiell and stuck it at the bottom of the board. “We’re deprioritizing him.”

“How come?” said Christy.

“Well, he was hiding his drug habit, and that’s maybe why he was so shifty,” said Lachlan. “But we don’t have anything definitively linking him to the crime.

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