Hidden Depth (Lockhart Brothers Book 4) by Brenda Rothert

Author:Brenda Rothert [Rothert, Brenda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Hidden Depth
Publisher: Silver Sky Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2017-04-23T16:00:00+00:00

Justin

THE PARTNERS AT EGAN, Cargill, and Thompson got a cake to celebrate my last day with them. I just came in to get my things and say goodbye to everyone, but I stay for cake, too.

The secretaries and paralegals are apparently going to keep pumping me for information until I walk out the door for the last time.

“So, how’s Elle doing?” one of them asks me.

“I’m not the one to ask.”

“Oh . . . I thought I saw a picture of you going into the hospital?”

“The cake’s great, did you have a piece?” I ask her, deflecting.

“Are you going to keep seeing her? Come on, just nod or something.”

“I think I’m gonna have another piece of cake.” I hear her frustrated groan as I walk away.

For fuck’s sake. It amazes me how gossipy grown adults can be. I guess there are people like that everywhere, in small towns and huge cities.

I hired movers to pack up my apartment and move most everything into storage in Lovely. I’m planning to start my house hunt immediately, but in the meantime, I’ll be staying at my parents’ house. Elle can stay with me there, or in the guesthouse if she prefers. I’m not planning on rushing anything between us.

The Lovely police chief knows we’re coming, because Elle’s security team coordinated with him. I’m hoping we can make it into town without too much media coverage.

I say a few more goodbyes and then sneak into my old office to make a call from my cell before I leave. The detective I’ve been talking to at the St. Louis Police Department picks up, recognizing my number from the caller ID.

“Hey, Justin. I was hoping you’d call,” he says.

“Oh, yeah? You’ve got something?”

Maybe they arrested Beasley and I can let Elle know when I get to the hospital.

He sighs into the phone. “Nothing firm. But I wanted to let you know we’ve gotten a couple calls to the tip line about sightings of Beasley in the St. Louis area.”

“Shit.”

“If he’s here, it’s only a matter of time before we get him.”

“Yeah, but . . . damn.”

“I just want you guys to be on alert. We haven’t confirmed he’s here, but the calls to the tip line about sightings here had tapered off completely and now they’re coming in again.”

“Okay. She’s coming to stay in Lovely with my family, but she hired lots of private security.”

“Good. They need to secure her location and any spots he could shoot at her new location from. If he can’t get close to her, he may try to get to her from a distance.”

I run a hand through my hair, tugging on it out of sheer frustration. “There’s got to be a way to smoke this guy out. Do we need to increase the reward?”

“Wouldn’t hurt.”

“I’ll kick more money in. And I’ll talk to Elle about it, too.”

“Okay. Let me know. We aren’t releasing these sightings to the media right now because we don’t want Beasley to know we know he’s here.

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