Mike (Police and Fire: Operation Alpha) (Downeast SWAT Book 5) by LJ VIckery & Operation Alpha

Author:LJ VIckery & Operation Alpha [VIckery, LJ & Alpha, Operation]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aces Press, LLC
Published: 2024-05-14T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

“I uncovered some major intel regarding my case,” Joelle began the minute they sat down at a table in the small restaurant Mike had chosen. Mike had wanted to pick her up, but she still wasn’t quite ready for him to see her sad little living arrangement. Not that he probably didn’t already know where she bunked. The well-connected man, no doubt, would have had any and all available PD units scouting the area for her, so he’d be fully informed.

Joe liked her semi-autonomy, but found herself unbothered with Mike’s presumed stalking. Still, should she fill Mike in on what she’d found?

Her gut was telling her she’d need him and his team onboard before things went much further.

Mike quirked a brow. “Are you sharing that tidbit because you’re excited, or because you’re thinking of taking me up on my offer of help?”

“A little of both,” she told him, her amusement sparked. This man wasn’t shy about interjecting himself into questionable situations.

“Well, don’t leave me hanging,” he chuckled.

“I found a warehouse.” She dangled the tantalizing morsel.

His mouth hardened. “In my jurisdiction? And you went in?”

“Duh,” she snorted. “You want to compare credentials, or hear about my night?”

“Tell me,” he grunted.

“Well, you know my tracker alerted me to movement, so I followed it a storage facility, then to a remote location west of town.”

Mike nodded and she went on.

“I witnessed a meet-and-greet at this out-of-the-way warehouse, where my two previous suspects were having a conversation with what appeared to be a boss-figure. The building was a piece-of-shmuck-rust-trap that otherwise would have been a place of no interest, but it had been given some recent and serious updates that gave me pause.”

“Updates such as…?” Mike inquired, still not looking happy.

“Such as a new, overhead door, with shiny, state-of-the-art locking devices on both it and the walk-in entry on the side.”

“So you hunkered down…” Mike prodded.

“I did. And from there I watched my two original suspects chat with guy number three before they left in a car, and the tractor I’d previously tagged. The third perp went into the building, and I waited him out until Mr. Nugget finally left the premises an hour or so later.”

“Mr. Nugget?” Now Mike’s lips twitched.

“Yeah. That’s what I’m calling him until I get an ID. The dude wears a gold nugget earring in his left lobe and is missing the pinky finger on his left hand.”

“Shit.” Mike’s face went from indulgent to furious in a hot second.

“What?” Joe asked.

“That’s Anthony Galici.”

“You know him?” She sat forward, expectantly.

Mike practically snarled. “Indeed, I do. He’s on every Maine police department’s radar. The man is known to have ties to the mob, and has had his grubby little fingers in a lot of illegal pies. It’s just that nobody’s ever been able to pin him down to charge him with anything specific.”

Joelle’s whole body lit up. “Shritt, that’s good news. Because now that I have a positive ID from you, I can make a prediction. Anthony Nugget’s reign of terror is almost over,” she gleefully informed Mike.

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