Kiss Me Deadly by R. Lee Moore

Author:R. Lee Moore [Moore, R. Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-07-15T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Tamina came to the next morning in a tangled mess draped over her couch. She hadn't even made it to her bed, and every muscle and joint in her body felt as if at some point during the night rigor mortis had set in. Drinking herself into a stupor and passing out probably hadn't been her brightest idea, she decided miserably.

Still, it had been a good night all things considered. Granted, there were probably a few people who might disagree, but she'd gotten the job done, and gained some new information in the process. Everything else would work itself out in the end. Or it wouldn't. Tamina didn't particularly care at this point.

She still hadn't decided if she was going to get up or not when she became aware of the muffled sound of her phone going off. There was a brief thought of ignoring it and going back to sleep, but it might have been something to do with the case and her mind wouldn't let that go. She fumbled around the couch, the floor, and the pile of clothes strewn from the door to the couch to find out where the ringing was coming from. She found it half out of her jacket pocket wedged beneath one of the couch cushions. Flicking on the speaker, she answered with a sleep-deprived voice laced with twinges of pain that she didn't even bother trying to conceal.

“You're a goddamn natural disaster. Anyone ever told you that?” the gravelly unpleasant voice on the other end of the line said.

“Oh hey Decker,” Tamina responded. “Yeah, I've heard that a time or two. What's up? Someone drop another body or something?”

“Not yet,” Decker's voice replied. “You know I was waiting for a warrant right? We got this funny little thing you might have heard of called proper procedure down here among us little folk.”

Tamina rolled her eyes and buried her head back into the couch.

“You got the information then?” she said.

“Pulling up to the apartment of one Amy Parker as we speak,” Decker replied. “Nice enough place that I'm starting to think I'm in the wrong business.”

“So I saved you some time,” Tamina said a bit more snidely than she'd intended. She was hungover. Wasn't her fault. “What's the problem? Need me to meet you out there?”

Decker laughed for a good solid thirty seconds before he was able to answer.

“Oh hell no,” he said firmly. “I want you staying as far away from this as possible right now. Barely got out of having to deal with that shit-show you pulled last night. Passed that little grenade on to your boss. So, have fun with that. Wouldn't think you're all that popular right now.”

Tamina forced herself to sit up. It was painful, and it took a bit of doing, but she managed.

“Never am,” she replied. “Whatever. Let me know if you find anything. Told you this was all connected somehow didn't I.”

Decker snorted derisively.

“Yeah,” he said curtly. “I'll keep you in the loop, here and at Albira Adams place when we get to it.

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