Mute by Brian Bandell

Author:Brian Bandell
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Silver Leaf Books
Published: 2012-06-29T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 27

He nearly handcuffed himself inside his own unmarked patrol car when he saw Monique Williams invite her child abusing old man into her home. Clyde Harrison couldn’t believe that she would expose the little girl she guarded so vigorously to a kid beater. This is the woman who let Nina Skillings, his partner on the homicide investigation team, get cannon-balled into a wall during a car chase because she wouldn’t put Mariella at risk.

If she had started taking gambles like this with the girl yesterday, Nina would be walking around fine. Why’d she have to pick today to shoot craps with the child’s life?

He turned his radio off and listened closely for shouting. Then he remembered that the girl couldn’t shout or scream. She couldn’t call for help. Harrison grabbed the door latch. He stopped himself. Lead detective Sneed had put him on surveillance so he could gather evidence on Moni’s treatment of the girl. He shouldn’t make his presence known unless the Lagoon Watcher shows up for the last living witness to his murders, Sneed had told him. As the minutes rolled by and the child abuser didn’t leave, Harrison doubted those orders would chain him down much longer.

Gazing down the street from behind the tinted windows of his Buick sedan, Harrison eyed the old taped together Camaro that Moni’s father had parked halfway on her overgrown lawn. He plugged in the license plate number and confirmed that Bo Williams shouldn’t be within a thousand feet of children—and for good reason. After bloodying up a 13-year-old, he raised hell in jail and got cited for more than a dozen fights. Most of them were with skinny kids barely old enough to be behind bars.

Cracking his knuckles as he stared at Bo Williams’ ugly mug on the computer, Harrison knew he’d enjoy turning the tables on that shithead. Since he already had enough proof of Moni’s mistreatment to make a judge remove the girl, he saw no need for waiting by while the kid got smacked around.

I’ll give them five more minutes. If he doesn’t come out of there, I’m dragging his ass out.

Harrison had 30 seconds left on his countdown when the surf rat showed up at her house. He recognized Aaron Hughes from the task force meetings.

“A little extra-curricular activity between you two, eh,” Harrison said to himself. “Well, you’re in for a surprise kid.”

Much to Harrison’s amazement, it was the ex-con and not the beach bum who limped out of there. It looked like the Williams family’s crown jewels had been smashed. So much for fighting like a man, Harrison thought. At least the kid had made his job a whole lot easier. Harrison snapped photos of Bo Williams hobbling into his car and leaving. Combined with the photos of the child abuser strolling straight in to meet the girl, Harrison figured he had built a pretty damning case again Moni. He e-mailed the photos to Sneed and then dialed him up.

“These are perfect, Clyde. Absolutely delicious,” Sneed said as if he were chewing into savory barbeque ribs.

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