Harlequin Intrigue April 2018, Box Set 2 of 2 by Carol Ericson

Author:Carol Ericson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

Jody dried her face with a washcloth and stared at her reflection above the sink in Adam’s hospital bathroom.

They found your friend Tracy Larson. She’s dead.

Even though she’d been expecting those words, her heart didn’t want to accept the truth.

She could see Tracy in her mind’s eye, hear her voice, feel her arms around her whenever she’d needed a hug. Which was a whole lot more often than her strong, beautiful friend had ever needed. Tracy was a rock, always had been. Jody had been her weak, needy friend. During the most difficult years of Jody’s life, Tracy and her family had been her comfort, her solace, her refuge from the storm. Jody would never have survived if it weren’t for their love and support.

She swiped at her tears and straightened her shoulders. Hiding in this bathroom wasn’t helping anyone. It was time to pull herself together and tell Adam and his brother everything she could remember about Damien and his thugs. Hopefully some of the details that were coming back to her now that she had finally gotten some sleep would provide the clues necessary to bring justice to her friend, and to Sam, if he too was dead, as Damien had taunted.

She opened the door and stepped out. Two very similar pairs of deep blue eyes looked at her with concern. She forced a smile and stepped around Duncan to take her seat beside Adam’s bed.

“I want to help you catch Damien,” she told Duncan. “I know that my earlier statement wasn’t all that useful. I was exhausted and wasn’t thinking straight. But I’m remembering more details now. Like that Damien and Owen are brothers.”

Adam and Duncan exchanged a surprised look. “Brothers?” they echoed each other.

“I think so. In the buggy, Damien called Owen his little brother. He only said it once. It could have been a nickname. But if it wasn’t, that could help you figure out more about Damien. Right?”

“Absolutely.” Duncan pulled out his cell phone and started texting someone. A few moments later, he gave Jody a big smile. “Bingo. My guy brought up Owen Flint’s bio. We knew he had a brother, Raymond D. Flint. But hadn’t made the connection yet. The D stands for Damien.” He held up his phone and turned it around. “Mugshot look familiar?”

“That’s him,” they both said.

“That’s Damien,” Jody confirmed. “He’s the one who sent those men to kill Adam.”

“And you,” Adam said, frowning.

“Do you remember any other details you didn’t mention before?” Duncan asked.

“Three days,” she said. “It was part of that same conversation in the buggy. Damien said Sam’s PI business had been causing him problems for three days. He had plans, big plans, and Owen wouldn’t get his cut if Adam made it out of the mountains and connected the dots.”

Adam and Duncan exchanged another look.

“Big plans?” Duncan asked.

“Connected the dots?” Adam asked.

She nodded. “They didn’t talk about his plans or what he meant, other than that Adam was a cop and knew he was an ex-con—”

“Because of the tattoos,” Adam said.

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