Phoenix by Eden Maguire

Author:Eden Maguire
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Published: 2011-08-25T04:00:00+00:00

After all the warnings I gave you?” Jardine quizzed. He stepped inside the house, glanced around at the table, the racks of dusty plates on the dresser, the unlit stove.

I came up with the usual lame excuse. “You know I don’t sleep much. I’m following up my research.”

Kors followed Jardine over the threshold, took off his hat, and shook the drips from the brim. “I take it you saw the two guys following you?”

I drew a sharp breath, shook my head, then tried to cover up the fear.

“A couple of guys on Harleys,” Jardine went on. “We checked them out—the bikes are registered with Robert Black and Vincent Hall.”

“Yeah? That’s news to me.” My comment was about as unconvincing as it’s possible to be.

“They’re on our radar.” The sheriff walked to the bottom of the stairs. “We like to monitor their activities.”

“So where are they now?”

“You lost them along the dirt road out of Foxton. We watched them pull up by the creek then we drove on here ahead of them.” Deciding not to check the upstairs room, Kors ran a finger along the dust on the table. “Don’t you want to know the reason why we have Hall and Black in our sights? I’ll tell you anyway. The day Phoenix Rohr was stabbed—they were present at the crime scene.”

I made out I didn’t know. “With a hundred other guys,” I muttered. “Anyone in Ellerton under the age of twenty-five was there that day.”

Kors gave me a hard look. “You act like you don’t want us to find your boyfriend’s killer.”

The use of the killer word and the pressure of the situation suddenly got to me, and my legs buckled. Jardine slid a chair under me just in time to stop me from slumping to the floor. “Take it easy,” he warned his boss, then turned back to me. “We’re on your side, remember, Darina. All we want right now is for you to tell us why Oscar Thorne’s guys are on your tail.”

Drawing a deep breath, I started to explain. “It’s complicated. You all know Oscar supplies…substances, illegal drugs to dealers in town. He spent time in jail for it last year. It didn’t stop him from dealing. Now his kid brother, Nathan, acts as his go-between.”

Jardine and Kors tucked away this useful piece of information. “And?” Kors asked.

“And Phoenix’s brother, Zak, and a couple of other kids hang out with Nathan in an old trailer on the Forest Lake road. I happened to be there when Nathan pulled out a bag of white powder. I guess the situation quickly got back to Oscar, and he put Hall and Black onto me.”

“These are people you do not—I repeat not—want to mix with.” Jardine did his protective uncle thing, while Kors busily computed the facts. “Those two guys are suspected of being into everything you ever had nightmares about—drugs, automobile theft, serious assault, dangerous driving. So don’t think that tailing you at a safe distance is all they have in mind.

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