Hidden Legacy by Lynn Huggins Blackburn

Author:Lynn Huggins Blackburn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-08-31T04:00:00+00:00

THIRTEEN

Jason entered the detention center and nodded at the deputy behind the desk.

“Your boy is a real charmer,” the officer said.

“Giving you a hard time?” Jason didn’t break his stride. This guy complained about everyone who walked in the door. He’d thought of him as “Negative Ned” so much, he had a hard time remembering his real name.

“Scared out of his mind is more like it. Keeps saying we’ve sentenced him to death. That they’ll kill him.”

Jason backtracked. He leaned across the desk. Talbert. That was it. Joe Talbert. “What exactly did he say?”

Talbert shrugged. “I didn’t write it down, man. I don’t have time for that mess. Guy gets caught peeping into Caroline Harrison’s window? He probably figures that brother of hers will kill him. Might be right about that. I hear Blake Harrison can handle himself.”

Blake was more than capable of handling himself, but Jason didn’t believe for a second that their perp was worried about the Harrison family.

“What did he say?” He enunciated each word.

Talbert huffed. “Kept going on about how we couldn’t use his real name. How he had to check in with someone, and if he didn’t, they’d find out and things would get a whole lot worse.” He scoffed. “Guy’s obviously only worried about himself. Probably got a rich daddy somewhere who’s going to cut off his trust fund if he gets busted again.”

Jason squeezed the edge of the desk to keep himself from grabbing Talbert by the shirt. “Did he mention any names?”

“Nah. Kept rambling on about how he was going to die and it was going to be on us.”

“Did he call his lawyer?”

“Nope.”

“Did he call anyone?”

“He did, but it wasn’t a lawyer.”

Talbert was going to be the death of him. “How do you know?”

“’Cause as soon as he hung up he asked for another call so he could call the lawyer this time. Told him to forget it. Guy too stupid to use his call to get a lawyer can wait for the public defender.”

“Do we have a name yet?”

“Nope. Still waiting on prints.”

“Where is he now?”

“In interrogation. Waiting for you.” Jason was halfway down the hall before Talbert finished talking. He grabbed his cell phone. Hit the redial button. “Kyle. Lock the place down.”

There was a two-second pause before Kyle responded. “On it.”

“I’ll call you in a few.” He didn’t like Kyle, but he had to hand it to him. He didn’t mess around with random questions when there wasn’t time.

Michael stood outside the door. “What’s wrong with you?”

Jason pointed to the door. “He called someone when he got here, but Talbert says it wasn’t a lawyer. He also says he’s been ranting about how he was going to be killed for this. We need to find out who he called and get some patrols out to Caroline’s house. Now. He may have called someone to finish his job.”

“Done.” Michael sprinted away.

Jason made sure the recording equipment was on. No way he wanted this guy to get off on any sort of technicality.

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