Renegade by Diana Palmer

Author:Diana Palmer
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Publisher: HQN
Published: 2004-09-16T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

TIPPY FACED THE POLICE the next morning. She held Cash’s hand while she gave them a statement. It was the first step to recovery, she told herself. Just one more little obstacle to get through. They took photographs as well, with a digital camera, for evidence of the treatment she’d received at Stanton’s hands.

Cash sat with her the whole time, going through endless cups of coffee. It was a straightforward procedure, but it took longer than he’d expected. He went with the investigators back to their precinct to write out a statement of his own. He couldn’t tell the whole truth, but he told as much as he felt comfortable with.

“What about Tippy’s mother?” he asked the lead investigator after they’d talked for a few minutes.

“She said her mother was behind the kidnapping, in order to get money from her,” the older man said.

“That’s right. She’s a drug addict.”

The investigator’s pale eyes shimmered with anger. “You’d be amazed how many we get here, most involved in burglaries or holdups or murders. We had a guy last week, eighteen, got high on acid and beat his grandmother to death. Never remembered doing any thing, but he’ll go to prison for life if they convict him.”

“I know,” Cash replied. “I’m in law enforcement my self. I’ve spent the last few months rooting out drug money. You probably know where it comes from.”

“Yeah,” the other man nodded. “From respectable citizens who want to make a lot of easy money and don’t care how.”

“Bingo.”

“I’ve always thought I’d like to work in a small town,” the detective mused. “Is the money good?”

Cash chuckled. “If you like beer. It won’t get you champagne.”

The older man’s eyes twinkled. “I hate champagne.”

“Then you might want to try it. You can do a lot of good on a small scale.”

There was a brief pause. “I heard some things about you from my lieutenant. He was in covert ops in the Gulf War.”

Cash’s eyebrows lifted. “Was he really?”

“He’s got a nephew named Peter Stone. Lives in Brooklyn.”

Cash gave him a wry look. “My, my, what a small world we live in.” He grinned.

The lieutenant grinned back.

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