The Hex Files - Wicked All The Way by Gina LaManna

Author:Gina LaManna [LaManna, Gina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: police procedural, paranormal mystery, humorous romantic comedy, stephanie plum
Publisher: LaManna Books
Published: 2019-04-04T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Clyde liked to talk. As he shuffled next to me on the shortest route back to the precinct, I found myself wondering if he didn’t have Andrea all wrong. Maybe she had tried to talk to him, but Clyde was such a chatterbox that poor Andrea had only managed to get in three hundred and sixty-seven words over two years despite her best efforts otherwise.

“...and after the show, I told her—do you know what I told her, Detective?”

“I don’t,” I said dully, grabbing Clyde’s elbow and steering him forward.

The marketplace streets were a main throughway of the city—one I usually avoided. Too many of the criminals I’d put in prison found their way back into the shadows of the marketplace, and there was nothing more awkward and disheartening than buying a bagel from an ex-con witch who had probably spit in my cream cheese.

This time, however, I would take a bagel with cream cheese spit over listening to Clyde for the extra ten-minute detour it’d cost us to go around.

“What’d she say?” I prompted when I realized Clyde had been silent for a full thirty seconds. “Clyde?”

I turned, annoyed at the kid’s back and forth cold feet, when I found him staring straight ahead into a crowd of people.

“Yo, Clyde,” I said. “You didn’t finish your story. Let’s walk and talk, pal.”

“B-but—” Clyde just shook his head and froze solid into a statue.

A few people bumped into us from all angles. One or two sneered naughty words. A third person smelled so much like a Narcotics jail cell that I almost pulled out my handcuffs, but I was too intrigued by Clyde’s frozen stare to care who was jostling against us.

“What is it?” I leaned in closer, my hand loose on his wrist. I wasn’t letting the kid bolt. After listening to over twenty minutes of his tales, I’d earned that HoloHex. “Did you see someone you recognize?”

“It’s...” He hesitated, cleared his throat. “Him.”

“Him?” I glanced forward, but the kid’s gangling legs propped him a few inches taller than me. I couldn’t see over the crowd of people. “Do you mean the guy you recognized from the library the other night?”

“Yes,” he stuttered. “The b-beautiful one.”

I rolled my eyes again, wondering what this gorgeous guy had going for him that made a college boy drool through his braces in envy. I tugged Clyde’s skinny arm with me as I wound my way through the crowd.

With one final elbow into the ribs of a man who had to be half-giant, I squeaked through to the front of the line, keeping Clyde close behind me. I had my hand on my Stunner just in case. If this guy bolted...

“Him.” Clyde’s voice grew stronger, his finger raised.

I followed his point to the man in front of a small crowd of people.

“Rob?” I gaped at my oldest brother.

His hands were spread wide as he flipped different colored fireworks back and forth between his palms. A little crackle and a fizz sounded as one of the fireworks died at the sound of my voice.

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