Over the Limit (Brand of Justice Book 4) by Lisa Phillips

Author:Lisa Phillips [Phillips, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9798885521642
Publisher: Two Dogs Publishing, LLC
Published: 2023-06-05T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

Seventeen years ago

“But you never leave with a case unsolved,” Kenna said to her father.

He pulled up to the gas pump.

They’d been on the road twenty minutes, and she hadn’t yet picked up her book, which lay by her foot on the floorboard, her bookmark sticking out. Sure, it was a gas station receipt from just outside Tennessee, but it worked to keep her page marked.

“You don’t understand.” He sighed.

“So explain it to me.” She couldn’t get that image out of her head.

The moment that man ran into the kitchen, blood on his face. Her father firing that gun and then telling her to run.

He hadn’t come home for two days.

During that time, she’d been super creeped out. Someone outside had been watching her, so she barely left the trailer except to ask the neighbor for a box of macaroni so she had something to eat. The night before, she’d heard someone right outside the front door, and through the peephole she saw a man was trying to pick the lock.

But her dad didn’t care. He just yelled at her to pack up the stuff, and they pulled out so fast the trailer jerked behind them.

Now he gripped the wheel, not even getting out to start pumping gas. He just sat there. “I have another case. We need to store the trailer somewhere and buy suitcases. We’re getting on a plane.”

Kenna stared at him, all the teenage angst in her swirling and about to explode whether she liked it or not. “What is going on?”

He knew the signs of an impending Kenna-detonation. “Just drop it.” Her dad pushed open the door. “I’ll be back. I have to use the restroom.”

He wasn’t going to answer her questions at all, was he? Surely they had told the police what happened to that man. Probably he was a terrible bad guy, and her dad did the world a favor. That was what he did every time he solved a case—whether it ended in a death or he handed the person over to the police, with evidence or in cuffs.

The door slammed.

Her dad started the gas pumping, then strode to the store. As she reached down for her book, the cell phone he’d left on the dash started to ring.

Kenna had to unbuckle her seatbelt to reach it. She flipped it open. “Max Banbury’s phone.”

“You tell that…” The caller descended into a series of bad words, which she interrupted, since she knew the voice. They’d talked in his living room just a couple of days before.

“You really want me to pass on that message?”

“Tell him it didn’t work, but since he split”—Santino spat the word—“I guess he already knows. That coward. I’ll kill him.”

“You’d have to catch him first.” And apparently, they were getting on a plane.

Santino stayed quiet for a second. “Tell him I get it. Tell him I get that he’s a slimy coward who cut and ran just because it didn’t work. Just because he doesn’t want to pay the price we all have to pay to take this guy down.

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