The Bribe: Calamity Montana - Book 1 by Nash Willa & Perry Devney

Author:Nash, Willa & Perry, Devney
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Devney Perry LLC
Published: 2020-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Duke

“Sorry I’m not much help,” Blake said.

“It’s okay.” I sighed. “Appreciate it anyway.”

“Want me to keep digging?” he asked. “I’d have better luck if I took a trip to Nashville.”

“Maybe. But not yet. I need to talk to Lucy first.”

Sending my friend to Nashville would undoubtedly lead to some answers, but it would mean contact with Detective Markum too. Maybe we could spin it and say Everly had hired him as a private investigator, but before we took that step, I wanted to run this by Lucy.

Blake worked for a security firm in Los Angeles. We’d gone to high school together and when I’d gone to the academy, he’d gone into the military. I’d always expected Blake to be a lifer in the Army, but after his last deployment, he’d returned to the States and reentered the civilian world. I wasn’t sure what had happened, and I hadn’t asked. My gut told me it was a sensitive—classified—subject.

He’d returned to our hometown in Wyoming, and I’d bumped into him on a trip to see my parents. I’d offered him my guest bedroom if he’d wanted to visit Calamity and explore the area. He’d taken me up on it. I’d been a deputy then and had more free time. The two of us had squeezed in a few hikes around the area and a couple in Yellowstone, including the trail where I’d found Lucy. Then a few months later, he’d called and told me he’d gone to work for a company in California.

We’d kept in touch and he’d told me about some of the jobs he’d taken. It seemed exciting and risky, and once, he’d asked if I’d consider moving. Though the money was good—it would cost me a fortune to send him to Nashville and investigate Lucy’s stalker—I much preferred my small-town life. Six months after he’d asked me about moving, I’d been elected sheriff.

Since Lucy’s wasn’t officially a Calamity Sheriff’s Department case and I knew Blake was one of the best investigators around, I’d phoned in a favor.

After a week of beating my head against the wall trying to find anything on Lucy’s stalker, I’d realized I needed help. It actually made me feel better that Blake, with all his legal and not-so-legal resources, hadn’t found anything in his week of digging either.

The news on Lucy’s stalker was nonexistent. It hadn’t caught the media’s attention. Mostly, the reports as of late had been in regard to her assistant. I’d looked into Meghan Attree and found a spotless record. Everly Christian’s background was more of the same.

Lucy would be pissed at me when I told her I’d pulled info on her best friend, but at this point, my suspect list included every name she’d ever given me. My instincts said Everly was honest and fiercely loyal to Lucy, but I wasn’t taking any chances.

Garrison, the company Blake worked for, had access to systems that I did not, and he wasn’t bound by my oaths and rules. However Blake got his

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