The Desperate Druggie--The Hot Dog Detective (A Denver Detective Cozy Mystery) by Mathiya Adams

Author:Mathiya Adams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: cozy mystery, private investigator, procedural police, denver police
Publisher: Misque Press

Chapter 34

Tuesday, August 9, 1100 Hours

Delgado finished her breakfast, announced that she was going for a swim, and proceeded to strip off all her clothes and jump into the pool. She didn't give any indication that she wanted MacFarland to join her and for the most part ignored him for the next half hour or so. He watched her swimming back and forth across the pool. As he stared at her nude body gliding through the water, he wondered what he wanted from her. She was not the first woman he had ever been intimate with. That had been an overly-enthusiastic red-haired cheerleader in high school. But she was clearly the first woman he had ever developed strong feelings for that went beyond a desire for sex. She had fascinated him, both with her total disregard for almost all forms of authority, and her totally unique definition of what it meant to be a woman. It wasn't that she flaunted convention. While she was in Albania, she followed all the local customs, almost to a fault. Yet she never allowed herself to be in a subjugated role.

Was that what bothered him about her relationship with Alejandro Gil? It seemed to him that she allowed Gil to boss her around, and that was so totally alien to her nature that seeing her around Gil really bothered him.

Was she still seeing him? She had insisted that her relationship with Gil was over, but MacFarland didn't get that impression from what he saw at lunch. Not from their body language, nor the way Gil had touched her. Was Gil trying to communicate that Delgado belonged to him, and that MacFarland should keep his distance? Did Gil even know about the history that existed between Delgado and him in Albania?

MacFarland's phone buzzed. He stared at it a moment, wondering who could be calling him in Mexico? Then he saw Pierson's name in the caller identification window. He picked up the phone.

"Cyn, what's up?"

"Mac, what kind of trouble are you getting into down there?"

"Huh? What are you talking about?"

"I ran the descriptions you gave me of the two men. I made the assumption that they were the same men I had seen around Denver, and I was able to identify one of them, a man called Jarda Stojanović. As soon as I ran his name, lights started flashing all over the place. You won't believe how many people are interested in this guy."

"Who's interested in him? Who is he?"

"The first person who got back to me is your old friend, Grey Wilson."

"The FBI is interested in Stojanović?"

"Not just the FBI. Homeland Security, the FBI, the CIA. Even Interpol wants him. He is wanted by police in half a dozen countries."

"What's going on with him?"

"Wilson tells me that he, and his partner, Derek Molnar, who I guess is the other guy, though no one has any picture of him, are Serbian nationals who work freelance. Usually for the Russians, though they don't know if that's who they're working for now.

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