The Alpha Men's Secret Club 3: Fallout: A Scorchingly Hot BBW Shifter Romance by Steele Dawn

Author:Steele, Dawn [Steele, Dawn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-06-11T07:00:00+00:00

12

The call went through the second time.

“Hello?” said a voice.

“Rita Cunningham?” Carlo lounged in the payphone booth, receiver pressed to his ear.

“Yes?”

“You wrote an article about the mysterious deaths in Bellevue around five years back.”

Hesitation.

“Yes, yes, I did.”

“Did you manage to uncover anything more about those deaths?”

“Who is this?”

“Let’s just say I’m an informer, and I wish to remain anonymous.”

“What do you want to tell me about the Bellevue case?” Rita demanded.

“Are you still interested?”

“Yes.”

“You haven’t answered my question.”

A pause on the other end. Carlo could tell that Rita Cunningham was not the type of woman who liked to be played. But he wasn’t the type of man who liked to be played either, and so that made two of them.

He had seen her photo on the web anyway. She was red-headed. Hair in a mess of tightly wound curls. Pretty. Slightly plump in a very pleasing way.

Rita said, “I managed to get a hold of the coroner’s inquests. The patients all died of pneumonia or diabetic complications or kidney failure. Nothing out of the ordinary, except that the deaths were pretty much following one another in the space of months or even weeks. The patients were criminally insane, and they were mostly all but abandoned by their own family. And so no one really cared about what happened to them.”

“What do you think happened to them?”

“I thought you had something to tell me.”

“It goes both ways if you’re going to make any inroads on this.”

Rita paused. Then:

“I think they’re covering something up.”

“Who? Connor O’Brien?”

“It’s time you told me what you wanted to tell me. Unless you have nothing to tell me and you’re just trying to pry information out of me.” Her tone was challenging.

“Oh, no. I have something to tell you all right. You have every right to suspect those deaths were not all they seemed. Did you follow up on the case throughout the years?”

“My editor pulled me off it.”

“Dig further. You’ll probably find that the deaths didn’t stop at five years ago, but they would probably now be more evenly spaced out so as not to attract attention. The coroner’s reports would be all the same – death from diseases found in institutions. After all, criminally insane patients are a susceptible bunch.”

“I don’t need an informer to tell me that,” she said smugly.

“But maybe you need an informer to point you to the motive. Five years ago, Connor O’Brien’s son, Rust, worked with him in Bellevue.”

“I know that. It was in my research.”

“Did you speak to Rust?”

“No. Connor was the spokesperson for Bellevue, along with the administrator at that time.” Rita’s tone turned cunning. “So you’re telling me the deaths weren’t accidental?”

“Accidental is such a connotative word. Let’s just say some experiments were conducted for research purposes. As to the motive for those experiments, I’ll leave you to your investigative wiles. It’s worth opening up the file again, Ms. Cunningham. This could be the scoop of a century. We’re talking a mind-blowing discovery which could change how we view the world.

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