Heartbreaker Hero: Eddie's Story (Maine Justice Book 4) by Susan Page Davis

Author:Susan Page Davis [Davis, Susan Page]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tea Tin Press
Published: 2017-07-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

Tuesday, January 4

The two prisoners were arraigned Tuesday morning. Melanie made bail. At least they knew where to find her. At any rate, she promised not to elude them if they went looking for her again. Leare was held over.

They worked all morning on what they knew about Hawkins, but at lunchtime they were no closer to finding him.

Around two, Eddie took a call from the sergeant on the main desk.

“Bruce Leare wants to talk to you.”

“Is he still here? I thought he went to the county jail.”

“He did. You’ll have to go over there.”

Eddie told Harvey about the call.

“Let’s pray before you go,” Harvey said. “Mike is really chafing about this. We need something solid, and soon.”

They went into the breakroom and shut the door. They didn’t usually take time out for prayer during work, but this case was different. The fact that an armed killer had planned to go into Mike’s house festered. The chief was doing his job on the fourth floor, as usual, but he wanted results. Eddie couldn’t blame him. They prayed briefly but sincerely.

“Get going,” Harvey said when they’d finished. “Don’t promise Leare anything, but try to find out if he has a vulnerable spot.”

Eddie drove over to the jail, passing by the exact spot on Congress Street where the accident had occurred Friday night. Traffic moved along smoothly today.

An officer brought Leare into the visitors’ room. It was outside regular visiting hours, so no one else was in there. Leare shuffled to his spot and sat down across from Eddie.

“Hey,” he said.

“You asked for me?”

“Yeah. I can’t stay in here, man.”

“That’s not up to me,” Eddie said.

“You can help me.”

“What makes you think that?”

He sat there for a long time, fidgeting.

“Let’s not waste time, Bruce,” Eddie said.

“Okay. What do you want to know?”

“Everything about Al Hawkins.”

Leare huffed out a breath. “He said if I didn’t do what he wanted, he’d have me snuffed, like he had Kyle.”

“Hawkins told you he killed Kyle Quinlan?”

“Yeah.”

Eddie wondered what Hawkins’s game was, claiming a murder that he’d had no part in. Probably he was using Kyle’s death to scare Leare, and it was working.

“So, tell me about the operation.”

Leare told him where and when he handed money off to Hawkins and who came to get the product at the house where they’d arrested him. He named four runners Hawkins used to distribute for him, and then he looked at Eddie.

“Is Rog going to die?” Rog, Eddie took it, was Roger Tasker, the man Tony had shot.

“I don’t think so.”

“Good.” Leare squinted at him. “But the kid died.”

“What kid?”

“Kyle. He was one of Al’s dealers. I heard that he told Kyle if he didn’t take out the cop that nailed him, he’d kill him. And now Kyle’s dead.”

“Oh, that kid,” Eddie said.

“It wasn’t you he was after, was it?” Leare asked.

“No, not me.”

“So who killed him? I know Al wouldn’t do it himself.”

Eddie wasn’t about to tell him, so he said, “Odd things happen when you mix it up with guys like Hawkins.

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