Frame Job (Crescent City Crimes Book 3) by Matt Lincoln

Author:Matt Lincoln [Lincoln, Matt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-03-28T16:00:00+00:00

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“I’ll leave you two alone,” Barrett said to Lex, nodding at the bars of Adam’s cell.

“Thanks,” Lex murmured.

“I’ll be right outside when you’re ready to leave,” he told her. His hand made a move like he was going to touch her elbow comfortingly, but he aborted the gesture halfway through and let his hand drop, turning around and leaving instead.

The sound the door to the holding cells made when it slammed shut made Lex jump, a shiver rising along her skin. She stood outside Adam’s small cell and looked in at him with a heavy heart. Adam knew she was there—he would have heard the door open, heard Barrett and Lex talking, heard Barrett leave again—but he had yet to look up. Instead, he sat on his cot with his head in his hands, elbows braced on his knees. Adam was a large man—tall and broad across the shoulders—but he somehow still seemed small in there, hunched in on himself like he was trying to disappear.

“Adam,” Lex said. She didn’t have to speak loudly. The cement corridor made her voice echo, anyway.

He still didn’t look up, and Lex stepped right up to the bars and wrapped her hands around two of them. “Adam,” she said again, louder this time, placing a bite upon his name.

Adam slowly raised his head, letting his hands drop to flop forward over his knees. His eyes looked hollow, sunk deep within their sockets, and his cheekbones seemed gaunter than usual.

“Hey, Lex,” he said quietly.

“How are you holding up?” she asked.

It was the wrong thing to say.

“Just great,” he sneered. “I’ve got some real five-star accommodations here, and I just love being accused of murder. I’ve never been better. How have you been?”

Lex’s anger rose in an instant, though a small part of her knew it wasn’t justified. “Don’t take that tone with me,” she snapped back. “All this is your own damned fault. I’ve been doing everything I can to help you. Even my friends are putting their lives at risk for you. So the least you could do is cut the damned attitude.”

Adam rose to his full height, drawing himself off the cot slowly as if someone was pulling on a string attached to the back of his neck. “Stop acting like you're my mother.”

“Excuse me?” Lex said, completely taken aback.

Adam prowled forward a few steps, halving the distance between them without getting too close to the bars. Probably because he knew Lex would hit him if he did. In fact, she had half a mind to go find the keys to his cell so she could go in and smack some sense into him. Not that it would make it through his thick skull.

“You’re always acting like you're my mother and not my sister,” Adam said. There was a slight quaver to his voice, like he was hesitant to say what he actually thought, but the arms of the argument were carrying him along now, and there was no stopping it. “You have

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