Paradise Crime Box Set 4 by Toby Neal

Author:Toby Neal [Neal, Toby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Toby Neal Books
Published: 2019-03-09T22:00:00+00:00

Lei got a ride out to her shot-up truck with the narco team—Shepherd wanted to check the area where she’d left Tony bound in the jungle personally. They rounded the curve of the bluff where Lei had reached the road and flagged down the Mustang. It felt like a lifetime ago.

“I didn’t send Hana PD out here right away because I knew Boss Man was right behind me. I just assumed he’d free the boy and take him with him, but once I saw what he’d done out at that shack…” She shook her head. “He clearly doesn’t care who he hurts. Straight into the trees from here.” Lei pointed as they pulled over and parked. “I’m not surprised Hana PD wanted to wait for me to come out to check on the kid’s location—it was hard to describe. I was so amped up when I got out of there I hardly registered details of the car I commandeered, let alone how to describe what the exact area looked like.”

Late evening was casting long shadows under the trees as Lei led the two narcotics detectives through the trees. It was a surprisingly long way inland through thick underbrush and trees, at least half a mile, by the time they found the teen.

They could see by the track of disturbed leaves that Tony had managed to wriggle twenty or so feet from where she’d left him. He was butted up against the trunk of a kukui nut tree, apparently rubbing the belt on his feet against it in an attempt to escape. His dark eyes glared at them from over the T-shirt she’d used to gag him so many hours before. Tears, snot, and dried blood from his nose covered his face.

“Hey, Tony. I see Uncle didn’t take you with him.” Lei folded her arms as Shepherd and his partner freed the boy’s feet and took off the gag. “I’m thinking you’re actually lucky he didn’t put a bullet in your head. Guess he just left you to die of thirst instead.”

“Screw you, bitch,” Tony whispered hoarsely.

Shepherd looked at Lei. “Want I should put the gag back on him, Sergeant?”

She and the kid stared at each other for a long moment, and the boy was the first to look away. “No. He’s going to mind his manners now. Aren’t you, Tony?”

The boy refused to look at her, clearly not wanting to be gagged again. “I need to piss.”

Lei turned and headed back toward the vehicles as Shepherd assisted with that awkward necessity. She reached the road and walked down it, arriving at her truck.

The sight of her ruined vehicle, covered from top to bottom with bullet holes, brought tears of angry exhaustion to Lei’s eyes. She fumbled her key out of her pocket and unlocked the truck, then retrieved the satellite phone from her purse under the front seat. It flashed with a message.

She called the voice mail. The satellite connection worked, even out here.

“This is Lieutenant Colonel Westbrook. We have a situation to discuss.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.