The Devil She Knew by Koontz Rena

Author:Koontz, Rena [Koontz, Rena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, suspense
Published: 2015-05-26T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Tony DelMorrie sucked on a cigarette, pinching his left eye closed to block the smoke drifting upward. He shifted in the front seat. His frame was too large to spend so much time slumped behind a steering wheel. Checking his watch he calculated it at nine hours. His stomach growled and he had to take a piss. Where the hell was she?

The tip he got from his cousin’s mistress had better pan out. Cassidy’s trail had gone cold more than a month ago in some small town in Tennessee. Christ, he’d hated that hole. But he hadn’t given up. No way. After his cousin called with the word that she was in Ohio, he’d driven all night.

He couldn’t have missed her, even if she was disguised. His view of her bedroom window was clear. There hadn’t been a light on in that apartment since he’d put eyes on it before the sun came up this morning. He’d searched it yesterday. She mighta been scared off finding it like that, but he still figured she’d come back to her own place before the start of a new work week. The little whore was probably shacked up with somebody.

He picked up the name tag between nicotine stained fingers and wiggled it, catching the light’s reflection. He’d waited this long. It was no time to get careless. He’d give it another day or two. If she didn’t show up, he’d find The Packing Place.

• • •

Clay rubbed his eyes. Hell. When he began an archive search for Cassidy’s name on The Arizona Republic website he never expected to find it linked to a murder and a mob guy. He stared at the photo of her surrounded by men in suits rushing her into a courthouse back door. Long, red hair floated behind her and, he noticed, no glasses.

“Eyewitness Cassidy Hoake is escorted by detectives into the courthouse under protective custody,” the photo caption read. He skimmed the story details. It all seemed in order. She’d witnessed the crime and testified.

He moved the cursor back to the search box and typed “Tony DelMorrie.” Clay was familiar with the name and the family’s underworld reputation. DelMorrie had carried on in his father’s footsteps, promoting prostitution and racketeering. Reportedly, DelMorrie personally “disposed of” family business problems, a deviation from the norm for mob bosses, but authorities had been unable to charge him with two murders they suspected he committed. He was too shrewd to get caught.

Apparently, he’d let his emotions get the better of him with his girlfriend. The paper said he and Jill Diamond had lived together for more than a year and had a major argument the morning Jill Diamond died. The story reported that DelMorrie gunned her down as she was entering a local convenience store. It was careless and impromptu and in front of a witness — not DelMorrie’s style. Police arrested him based on the testimony of the eyewitness, Cassidy Hoake.

Clay continued reading and there it was, the reason Cassidy was always looking around, constantly watching, forever evaluating her surroundings.

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