Lone Star Witness by Delores Fossen

Author:Delores Fossen [Fossen, Delores]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lone Star Books
Published: 2024-07-06T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

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Slade read through a report on the monitor while Marise cleaned the cut on his head. Obviously, she was cleaning it with some kind of acid because it stung like the hottest fires in hell. He wasn’t quite able to choke back a grunt of pain, or two, and he was definitely doing some grimacing.

“Letting Annalisa knife me might be less painful than this,” he muttered.

Then, he had to fight back the image of the woman lunging that knife at Marise. That gave him a fresh jolt of anger over the attack, and while he should probably cut Annalisa some slack since she was a grieving widow and all, the slack didn’t exist because of how close she’d come to hurting Marise.

Since the report currently on the screen was the latest from Ruby on Annalisa, Slade knew the woman had not only been arrested, she was in the process of having a psychiatric evaluation. What she wouldn’t be doing was roaming the street with another knife, searching to avenge her cheating husband.

That was one less worry off this plate.

But there were three other big-assed concerns. Stephanie, Julian, and, of course, the dipshit Sonny.

Thanks to the info Jace had given them, the cops were now interested in talking to Julian and Sonny. The problem? Neither of them was responding to SAPD’s attempts to contact them. Stephanie was the only one of the three who had bothered to return any calls and texts. Good thing, too, because now her fake meeting with the colonel was all set up for eight pm.

About four hours from now.

That way, it’d be dark enough for neighbors not to get suspicious of the unfamiliar vehicles and alert Stephanie. If they found blood in the office, then Stephanie would be located and taken to SAPD headquarters for questioning while the house got a thorough going over from the CSIs.

There was the possibility though that there’d be no blood. That’s why they hadn’t gone full out with cop and CSI involvement. If Rosa had hallucinated the attack, then they’d have to then try to figure out how and where Carlyle Hutton had been murdered.

He gave the voice command to switch the monitor to the internal camera in the hall outside the guestroom. Because the door was open, he could see Colonel Rosa exactly where he was a half hour earlier when Slade had checked.

Asleep on the bed.

Clearly, the man was exhausted and would hopefully sleep until it was time for them to leave.

Them.

As in Marise, too.

Slade had debated that. Oh, had he. Part of him wanted her tucked safely away, but there was no safe place where he was positive Sonny wouldn’t be able to get to her. At least if she was with him, Slade could make it his priority to protect her.

The plan was for Marise, Rosa, and him to meet Jericho, Jace, and Jace’s foster brother, Detective Angelo DeLuca, at the colonel’s house. They wouldn’t proceed inside until he had visual confirmation that Stephanie was all the way across the city at his townhouse.

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