No Saint by Mallory Kane

Author:Mallory Kane [Kane, Mallory]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance
ISBN: 9781947636644
Publisher: The Tule Publishing Group, LLC
Published: 2017-10-28T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

In Rick’s living room, Lusinda flopped down on the vinyl couch and dug her cell phone and cord out of her bag. Her phone was probably dead. It had been two days since she’d even thought about charging it. She tried to turn it on. Yep. Dead. She traced the cord of the ragged table lamp to an outlet just behind the couch. After plugging the cord in, she set the phone on the table.

Then she rubbed her face. She thought she’d made a good case for being so conveniently around, as Rick had said. But when he’d thrown it all back at her, it sounded like an amateurish, pathetic attempt at seduction. Maybe that was a good thing. If he thought she was in the throes of a childish crush on him, it ought to be impossible for him to also think she was a cop.

Still in her clothes, she curled up on the opposite end of the couch with her head on the arm and hoped she could fall asleep.

On some level, she was aware that Rick’s bedroom door opened and the shower ran, but she didn’t fully wake up until she heard him walk into the living room. He put the cash she’d given him under her phone, then dropped into the easy chair.

She sat up.

He had showered and changed into pajama bottoms and a white T-shirt. There was a small spot of blood on the neck of the shirt and a smear at the edge of his lip. He held the glass of water and sipped from it gingerly. “Sorry about your friend,” he muttered a little sheepishly.

She nodded. They sat there for a few minutes. Finally she spoke. “I’m still waiting for you to tell me what happened.”

He looked up without answering.

“Not this again,” she said. “Do you seriously think I know who beat you up?”

He didn’t answer.

“Well, I don’t, but I’d love to know why you think I do. Am I hanging out with the wrong crowd?” she asked, her tone belligerent. “Is it the way I tilt my head?”

She’d decided to go ahead and push him—hard. If he had made her as a cop, she needed to know. She could inform O’Reilly that she’d failed and he could send in someone who would do a better job. Someone who hadn’t gotten too close to her subject for her own good. “Maybe you really do think I’m spying on your for Beau, or—” She threw up her hands. “Maybe you think I’m a cop.” She lifted her chin.

He sighed and looked into the bottom of the water glass as if he were searching for an answer there.

“Well? You apparently think I sicced Beau on you for some reason. Like ruining my chances with—what was his name? T-Gros?” She laughed shortly. “Sure I could use the money and it was none of your business; but truthfully, I did not want to go in the back with him. And trust me, if I could get Beau to do stuff for me, I wouldn’t waste my wishes on you.

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