Hogdoggin' by Anthony Neil Smith

Author:Anthony Neil Smith
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Police, Mystery & Detective, Westerns, Hard-Boiled, General, Motorcycle Gangs, Suspense Fiction, Thrillers, Fiction, Minnesota
ISBN: 9781606480250
Publisher: Bleak House Books
Published: 2009-06-14T07:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-ONE

Desiree missed her husband’s call because she had fallen asleep at the desk in his office, where she’d looked up everything she could on Ginny Lafitte and whatever it was Franklin had gotten himself into. Once she saw a photo of Ginny, Desiree cooled a bit. Yeah, a pretty white woman, but kind of frail. Maybe Franklin liked the thrill of being able to lord some power over some weakling, but she was pretty damned sure a girl like that wasn’t what got his cock up.

If she had to worry about anyone taking Franklin away from her, it was the other Lafitte—Billy.

Breaking through his passwords had been easy enough. Desiree knew his birthday, their anniversary, his favorite music, his mother’s middle name, and about a hundred other likes and dislikes that popped up in the course of spending so many years together. Only took her six tries. But what she found…wow.

Mostly, she pieced it together through following the trail of his requested documents, expenses, and cell phone records. All this time that Franklin had been trying to redeem himself in her eyes, he’d also been looking for a way to flush out Lafitte. On his own, vigilante style.

“Well, I’ll be fucked,” she mumbled after getting through it all to find that he’d actually done it. Lafitte was already on the road, heading south, straight into Franklin’s net.

But something must’ve gone wrong. If he was using the ex-wife as bait of some sort, and there had been an emergency involving her, then what?

Next thing Desiree knew, she was in a hotel lobby full of finely dressed people milling around, all carrying little plates full of hors’ doeurves. Ginny Lafitte was there, too, tinier than Desiree expected, but that was her mind drawing the woman in the way she’d expect was least attractive to Franklin. It was Desiree’s dream, so it was Desiree’s rules.

“You’re not messing around with my husband, are you?” Direct was usually best.

Ginny smiled politely. A shrinking violet, but no homewrecker. “He loves you.”

“Yes, I know.”

“That’s all. It’s not about you or me. It’s about my ex-husband.”

Desiree sighed. “Just another case, though, wasn’t it?”

The second she said it, she knew that wasn’t true. Franklin had been wrong about Lafitte, but he couldn’t accept that. He had to find something to pin on the guy. Should have been easy, right? Lafitte was like Pig-Pen from Peanuts—walked around in a cloud of dirt. That’s why Franklin came home so defeated, distant, violent. Whatever had made her husband excited about his job—the same thing that had him coming home to her grinning and joking like a teenager in love way back in the day. Desiree wished she could bring him back all on her own, but it struck her now just how unrealistic that was and how it seemed like neither one of them could fix this until Franklin had dealt with Lafitte. And goddamn it if that wouldn’t put an end to him, too.

Dream Ginny shrugged, then lifted her glass of wine.

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