Quinn Gets His Kicks (Liam Quinn Mysteries Book 2) by Ian Loome

Author:Ian Loome [Loome, Ian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J.I. Loome
Published: 2014-01-19T11:00:00+00:00

18

The drive back to the condo was strange. I knew the tail was probably still there but I couldn’t make out which car it was, or whether they’d maybe switched up to throw me off. It was an unsettling sensation, like keeping your back to the wall in the prison yard, ever alert.

The De Sorias were in bed already, but Nora had waited up for me to arrive before heading home herself. She was seated on the high stools at the kitchen island.

I walked over.

“So?” She didn’t need to elaborate. Nora had always taken an interest in my work, even when I was painting lousy Japanese forgeries for a living.

“So someone killed Junior because he heard something he shouldn’t,” I said. “It’s the only explanation. The question is what he heard and from who, because everyone at that club has a stake in something pretty big.”

She frowned. “I thought you said it was a small feeder club....”

“Yeah, but they’ve got a wonderkid. Seriously, he plays with the intelligence and technique of a pro, and he’s fifteen years old.”

“Ah. So.... it’s about money, then?”

“Isn’t it always?”

She took a sip of tea. “When there’s someone bad involved? Yeah, pretty much always. Anyone stand out?”

“The guy who gains the most from the whole deal is his agent, David B. Davidson. And according to the kid, they’d been arguing about where he’d go play, with the kid’s preference maybe costing Davidson some serious cash.”

She was thinking ahead. “So Junior overhears their argument about it because ... what, the agent’s going to cut a deal without the kid knowing about it?”

That also didn’t seem likely, I said. But there was another possibility. “The kid said Davidson stayed behind when he left the building for a few minutes because he had a call to make. Maybe Junior heard that conversation. If it had something to do with what the agent intended to do....”

“Then maybe he killed Junior before he could tell the kid?”

It was a theory. It wasn’t much of one, but it was a theory.

I finished my glass of wine and walked around the kitchen island to the sink to wash it out. “I need to talk to Davidson next, I guess,” I said.

Nora leaned on the granite counter for a few seconds, just studying me. “You never did answer my question the other night,” she said. “You never did say why you never asked me out.”

It was a no-win situation: if I admitted I wanted to ask her and she wasn’t interested back, it would become awkward between us. If she was interested? Then maybe the pressures of a relationship screw everything up for ...what? More intimacy? A future together, maybe? And would she be worrying about that, too?

“It’s not an easy question to answer,” I finally said, trying to feel the situation out, to figure out what to say without messing up everything.

She got up, slipping quickly into her jacket and grabbing her purse from the table. “You know, Liam, I stick up like hell for you.

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