Showdown in Mudbug by Jana DeLeon

Author:Jana DeLeon [DeLeon, Jana]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Suspense
ISBN: 0505528495
Publisher: Love Spell
Published: 2010-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Zach looked across the restaurant table at Maryse and wondered what she was hiding. Ever since Raissa told him there “might” be photos, he’d wondered how on earth someone had managed to take a picture of the guy without him noticing. Obviously, the answer was she hadn’t gotten away with it, or she wouldn’t have been attacked. But how she’d gotten all the way to New Orleans to have them developed was another mystery. It seemed to Zach that the guy could have run her over in the street right there in Mudbug and saved himself the trouble.

Which meant something wasn’t exactly right about her story. The only thing Zach could come up with that made sense is that it wasn’t Maryse who had taken the pictures. But whom was she protecting? Obviously someone close to her, or no one would have followed her to New Orleans to begin with. And someone with a death wish, assuming they’d walked up to the car of a potential killer and snapped a photo. Whoever it was, it appeared to him that Raissa was also in on the secret. She’d maintained a fairly straight face, but Zach got the feeling Raissa was reading information between the lines in Maryse’s story.

“And then I came to on the sidewalk,” Maryse finished up her story, “with some lady looking down at me. I couldn’t have been out for long, but the guy was long gone.”

“With the pictures,” Zach finished.

Maryse nodded. “And the negatives, but I had a contingency plan.” She pulled a set of photos out of the front of her shirt. “I had duplicate copies made and hid one on my body.”

Zach narrowed his eyes at her. “Why would you even think to do that?”

Maryse took a sip of her beer. “I peeked outside and saw a black car at the corner. I was afraid they’d followed me.”

“So you hid a set of photos in your bra and went strolling outside, knowing full well you were probably going to be mugged.”

Maryse frowned. “When you put it that way, it doesn’t sound so smart, does it?”

“Ignore him,” Raissa said and took the photos from Maryse. “It was very smart and very brave. Besides, you called me and put the phone in your pocket on the way out of the store so I could hear what was going on, so you were sorta covered.”

“Yeah…I guess that was pretty smart.” Maryse took another drink of her beer.

“By the way, if you do something like that again, I’ll kill you myself.”

Maryse rubbed the back of her head. “Don’t worry. From now on, I’m leaving all the Jane Bond stuff up to you.”

Zach smiled. It was hard not to like a spunky woman, even if she had electrocuted him. And was lying.

“You did a great job,” Raissa said as she flipped through the photos.

“Do you recognize him?” Zach asked, leaning over to view the photographs with Raissa.

“I think so, but I’m not certain. He looks sorta like the son of one of Sonny’s guys.

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