No Feign No Gain (Sonic Sleuths Series Book 2) by Carrie Ann Knox

Author:Carrie Ann Knox [Knox, Carrie Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Xotolithic Press
Published: 2020-06-04T16:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-ONE

“That lying weasel,” Sloan exclaimed, seething with disgust. “I can’t believe I ever considered that rodent. For even a second.”

“A nanosecond. What a slimeball.”

I slid the carafe toward her and began fixing up my coffee, ecstatic to be back in the familiarity of our booth at Joe’s. Too many things had been changing and happening too fast. I needed the comfort of our second home. Despite our promise to Lucas to stay away.

Once again, we hadn’t bothered with disguises. But I was no longer fighting it. Let us be spotted. If they wanted to find us, they would. They certainly already had been.

I glanced up to see Leo approaching, his typical smirk on his face and laptop bag on his shoulder. He slid in next to Sloan.

“So, got outplayed by the players, huh?” he said. “Guess you had it coming.”

Sloan nearly spat out her coffee. She gaped at Leo. “How’s that?”

Leo shrugged and reached for a mug. “You started everything with a trick, the way I see it. Ended up sending Sal and all those guys to jail. And then you go drop him a hint there was money to be had in your coworker’s little scheme. What did you expect to happen?”

“First of all,” I corrected, “we didn’t drop any hints. Not on purpose, anyway. And we didn’t even know it was Grant’s scheme. We thought it was their scheme.”

“You’re just naming mistakes.” Leo lifted his coffee with a smirk. “You got played from all sides, when you look at it.”

My gaze dropped. I had been trying hard not to look at it that way. It was pretty embarrassing, how badly we’d proceeded in this whole thing. One ruse after another, with us following along like pathetic little puppets. Being used.

Sloan looked just as sheepish. I had a feeling she had never been in this situation before. Ashamed of her actions in an investigation. Embarrassed to have been so manipulated.

Maybe I’m the bad influence. I was apparently just too gullible and willing to pursue without any hard evidence. My instincts were clearly off.

And now I had gotten my coworker into trouble, for real this time. He was being held against his will somewhere, probably scared to death. And us mentioning him to Salvatore seemed to be the reason it was happening. We were to blame.

Grant had pulled the deception on us in the first place. But I couldn’t focus on that right now. We had to get him out of this first. The actual, real kidnapping.

Leo dropped his mug to the table with a clunk, shattering my little bubble of self-loathing. Sloan seemed to shake back into reality as well. He pulled out his laptop and waited for both of us to give him our full attention.

“Well,” he began dramatically. “You sure know how to pick ‘em, S. Going out with the star accountant to the mob? Doesn’t really sound like you.”

“I don’t believe it.” Sloan shook her head, processing. “I knew him a while back, a client several years ago.

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