Innocence Protected--3 Book Box Set by Diana Palmer

Author:Diana Palmer
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781742902685
Publisher: Mills & Boon Special Release

Nine

Two more weeks passed with the occupants of the Parkses’ house being polite to each other and not much more. Cy had swept the house for “bugs” the same day Lopez’s men made their assault, making sure that he didn’t miss any of Lopez’s little listening devices. He had no idea how long the drug lord’s men had been eavesdropping, but there hadn’t been that many opportunities for them to get into the house. He didn’t imagine it had been long.

He checked his surveillance tapes periodically as well, noting that the warehouse on the land behind his property had been joined by what looked like a small processing plant, supposedly for honey from the row upon row of beehives on the property. He saw nothing to indicate a drug presence, but Lopez had added several more men to the site, and there were several big eighteen-wheel trucks on the premises now. It looked very much as if Lopez planned to start shipping his product fairly soon.

Meanwhile, Cy had gone to see Eb Scott to check on Rodrigo’s progress, and the status of the cocaine shipment he’d already reported.

“Narcs got it down in the Gulf,” Eb murmured coolly. “The Coast Guard homed in on the boats that were carrying it and strafed them with gunfire. Needless to say, they gave themselves and their shipment up. The DEA made several arrests and confiscated enough cocaine paste to addict a small country.”

“Damn,” Cy murmured angrily. “So here we sit.”

“Don’t knock the confiscation,” Eb mused. “I’d love to see them make that kind of haul on a daily basis.”

“So would I, but I want to catch Lopez with his fingers in the cookie jar,” the other man said. And soon, he could have added, because his hunger for his wife was growing less controllable by the day. He looked at her and ached. Anger made new lines in his lean face. “Meanwhile, he sits on the edge of my property like a volcano about to erupt and I can’t do a damned thing about it. I suppose you know that the sheriff’s department and the DEA were all over it because of an ‘anonymous’ tip.”

“I know,” Eb replied. “One of Lopez’s men phoned in the tip, apparently, and then the man in charge of the honey operation threatened to sue everybody for harassment if they came out again and did any more searches.” He shook his head. “You have to admire the plan, at least. It was a stroke of genius. Nobody’s going to rush out there again to look around unless there’s concrete evidence of drugs.”

“And that,” Cy agreed, “will be hard to come by now.”

“Exactly.” He leaned forward in his chair and studied Cy intently. “You look older.”

Cy scowled. “That’s what marriage does to a bachelor.”

“It had the opposite effect on me,” his friend replied. “I’ve had a streak of good luck since I married Sally.”

“I noticed. Is Micah Steele still in town?” he asked abruptly.

“He’s in and out. He had an assignment and he’s due back next week.

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