Like Pizza and Beer by Elle Parker

Author:Elle Parker [Parker, Elle]
Language: deu
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: Dino works cases for his old flame and his current boyfriend and ends up caught in the middle while trying to protect both of them.
Published: 2011-04-09T09:58:37+00:00

Elle Parker

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“I don’t know whether this’ll pay off or not,” I told him. “The connection is just as likely to be somewhere in his private life, if not more so. That’s why I need you to talk to him. Find out who he hangs out with, and where. That kind of stuff.”

“Yeah, okay. What about Frank?”

“I’m waiting to see if that loan shark gives me a call.”

“That’s it?”

The edge in his voice told me I needed to tread lightly. “If I have time tonight, I’ll take a drive by there, see if I can’t catch Frank and find out what he’s been up to.”

“Oh, great,” he said, nodding. He took a sip of coffee. “If you have time.”

“Come on, don’t be like that.”

“What am I supposed to be like, Dino?”

“Look. I gotta’ focus on Gigi’s case because I think there’s a real chance the next time they try something, someone’s gonna get hurt. This is a serious situation.”

“And Molly’s isn’t? You don’t seem to be too worried about her.” He pressed his mouth into a thin, irritated line.

“I’m concerned about her, you know that. I just don’t think she’s in much danger. That guy the other night was just meant to be intimidating. I don’t think anyone’s gonna try to hurt her.”

“But you don’t know…”

I put a hand on his shoulder and tried to jostle the scowl off his face. “Let me talk to this Tony G guy and find out what’s really going on. I swear, if I thought there was gonna be trouble, I would be all over it.” Which was the truth. If Tony G got my message, he was unlikely to do anything until he found out what kind of threat I was.

“All right, all right.” Seth rolled his eyes and looked at me almost apologetically. “It’s just frustrating to not be able to do anything, you know?”

“Yes, I do know.” It wasn’t too awfully long ago I was in the same spot and Seth was the one in danger. “We’ll get it all taken care of.”

I slid my hand up to the back of his neck and pulled him in to a long kiss. He relented by degrees, until he was nipping my lip in his usual enthusiastic style.

When we broke, I said, “Why don’t we get showered, and I’ll take you out to lunch before you have to work.”

“The Blue Bottle? Or how about Elmo’s? I could eat a Shipwreck Burger.”

“I was thinking The Sandwich Shack.”

He frowned and said, “Where the fuck is that?”

“In St. Pete. It’s one of the places Lester used to work. I thought we could check it out and get a bite to eat at the same time.”

“That doesn’t sound very promising.”

“No, it doesn’t. Sorry about that.”

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