His to Defend by Sharon C. Cooper

Author:Sharon C. Cooper
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-10-12T18:00:54+00:00

Chapter 13

Maxwell rubbed his chin as he swiveled back and forth in his office chair. His mind was on everything but work. He couldn’t stop thinking about Jeremy’s parents and how nasty they were toward Amina. Now he hated that he talked her into attending the funeral. Initially, he thought it would be a good way to get closure. Instead, she got ambushed because of more lies.

What the heck would happen when people found they were dating? Or sorta dating? Hell, he wasn’t sure what they were doing or what to call it. All he knew was that he wanted her in his life, and he had every intention of seeing where their relationship could go.

And that asshole Jeremy.

When had he changed for the worse? When had he become this person that Maxwell didn’t recognize? His feelings toward the man were growing darker by the day. Though he was more than ready to catch his killer, more than anything, he wanted to figure out what had changed Jeremy. He hadn’t always been the selfish, coldhearted jerk that he had turned into.

“Hey, boss. You got a minute?” Danny asked from the doorway. “Me and Zeke got something.”

“Yeah, come on in.”

Both men had attended Jeremy’s wake, but because of the urgency of the case, neither attended the funeral.

“What do you have?” he asked as they strolled into the office.

“A headache.” Danny dropped into one of the guest chairs in front of the desk. “Talk about not being able to predict the direction a case will go. This one is proving to be tough.”

Zeke was still standing, typing something into the electronic tablet in his hands. “We have a video from an owner of one of the town houses across from the apartment building,” he said. He moved around the desk and handed Maxwell the device.

The video started, and whatever camera had been used, it had a wide lens that picked up not only the apartment building’s door, but part of a backyard of what he assumed was the town house. Every few minutes people walked out of the apartment building through a door that Maxwell hadn’t noticed when he was there. It was near where Jeremy had parked the squad car the day they were ambushed, but a little hidden by shrubbery.

“What am I looking for?” he asked.

“Just wait for it. You’ll know it when you see it,” Zeke said.

Maxwell noted the date of the video in the upper right-hand corner. It was the day of the shooting, and a flicker of apprehension coursed through him. Whatever he was about to see wasn’t going to be good, but if it could get them closer to finding Jeremy’s killer, he was ready for it.

No sooner than the thought entered his mind, a man burst out of the apartment building. He glanced left and right before going left down the sidewalk, but then Zeke stopped the video. The detective didn’t have to say anything. Maxwell sat staring at the frozen screen, taking in every detail.

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