Heist by Kiki Swinson; De’nesha Diamond

Author:Kiki Swinson; De’nesha Diamond
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780758262882
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2010-04-16T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

During the short drive to my field office, I can’t help but laugh that my dad and his old hanging buddies thought I believed that they had gone back into the bank-robbing business. Uncle Tremaine is as deaf as a stump, Uncle Mishawn is legally blind, and Uncle Rawlo, God bless him, isn’t exactly in the best of shape to be breaking into anything.

I pull in a deep breath and then laugh. Overall, it hasn’t been easy growing up with the secret that my father used to be a famous bank robber / jewel thief. When I was younger, I wanted to blab to everyone who would stand still. That was when it seemed kind of cool. When I decided to get into law enforcement, it made me nervous when the government ran a background check.

Jonathan Banks has quite a criminal record, though he never went to jail for being the Jackal. That’s amazing in itself. Despite the fact that the statutes of limitations are up for his eighties shenanigans doesn’t mean I’ve stopped looking over my shoulder, and it certainly doesn’t mean that it can’t come back and bite me on the ass. My mother doesn’t like that I’ve maintained a relationship with my father. She thinks that it’s somehow a big slap in the face to my stepfather—the man who raised me. I would love to point out that was a choice she made because my father always wanted to be there, but it’s not worth fighting over. I like to keep that crazy drama between them.

And now that Mom and George are separated and talking divorce, I see renewed hope in my dad’s eyes, and it’s kind of contagious. Then again, maybe all children want their parents to get and stay together.

I whip my ride into my usual parking space at the field office and hustle into the office, because I have a thing about always being on time. And sure enough, as I rush to my office chair, I see Elliott leaning against it and tapping the face of his watch.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” I tell him. “I’m on time.” I look down at my watch. “In fact, I have two minutes to spare. Now get off my desk.” I shoo him away and plop down in my chair.

“We have twenty minutes before Benson goes in for a press conference regarding last night’s raid.”

I wince. “Are we going in there with him?”

He nods. “What are you going to do? It’s part of the job.”

“Twenty minutes. I guess that gives me enough time to work some of those reports you passed off to me last week.”

“You haven’t done those yet?” He plants his ass on the corner of my desk while I boot up. “Soooo … you left the bar pretty quick last night.”

“Catch that, did you?” I try to keep a smile from creeping across my face. Despite the money on the table, I can’t deny that I had one hell of a time.

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