Love (Things That Matter Series Book 3) by Casey Diam

Author:Casey Diam [Diam, Casey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: NLM Romance Publishing
Published: 2019-01-27T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Three

Caleb

I sprinted down the road and into the nearby woods Stacy Lenard had run. Sirens were nearing, and I was closing in on her. She was the one who’d shown up behind Rodriguez. And as soon as she saw what was going down, she’d put her car into reverse and tried to get away, but I’d emptied the AK-47 mag into the tires, which caused the car to spin out and hit a tree. That was when she’d decided to make a run for it.

She stubbed her toe and pitched forward onto her hands and knees, and I knew I had her.

Jumping up, she started forward again, but with the bushes becoming denser, the deeper we ran into the woods, in fewer than twenty seconds, I would catch up to her. When I did, I pulled her body against mine and wrapped a hand around her throat, letting my fingers pinch the arteries against her windpipe. Fifteen to twenty seconds and she’d be out. Two to four minutes and she’d be dead.

“Where’s Alex Connor?” I demanded, loosening my grip on her carotid arteries. I didn’t want her to lose consciousness just yet.

“I don’t know,” she replied, sucking in air.

Brad’s fuck-up today was turning out to be a major win for us.

“What do you know?”

“Nothing,” she rasped. “Please, just let me go.”

The police sirens became louder, and I knew they were at the mansion. Getting sidetracked like this pissed me off because I wanted to question Brad about Sophia Cruz’s body. Once they found something that put me at the scene of the crime, I could be charged with her murder.

The only thing they had was that it happened at the hotel. I was alone in my suite while Brad was in his with a lifeless Sofia. There were no videos, which meant nothing to prove I hadn’t done it.

“Because of you, Paige almost died in that hospital, and I’m guessing you came here today for that same reason, so I’m a little lost as to why I should let you go.”

“Because you owe me. You killed Dee,” she whined.

Only one problem: he would have killed Paige if I hadn’t killed him.

“You shouldn’t have gotten mixed up with Alex Connor and lied to me. Pretending to disappear after you helped me. Pretending you had been raped. Making me feel sorry for you. That is just fucking sick, Lenard. Now, since you don’t know anything . . .”

“I should have killed that bitch when I had the chance, then you’d know what it feels like—”

My grip tightened around her skinny neck, and as I counted in my head, I thought about what Brad had said about Sophia Cruz. He did kill her, and most likely just like this. It really hadn’t been a mistake, an overdose. I caught Lenard as she lost consciousness. With her not being able to fight me, it would save me a minute on the journey back to the road.

As the trees opened to reveal the road, I spotted three local police cars in and around the front yard.

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