The Killer You Know by Kimberly Van Meter

Author:Kimberly Van Meter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-07-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Quinn left Silas’s hotel room later that morning, sated and sleepy, but since she had time to kill before Silas picked up Brock after school for questioning, she returned home to quickly shower to perk up.

She was surprised to see Uncle Leo still at home but judging by the glower on his face, he wasn’t happy about something.

“What’s wrong?” she asked, pausing in the doorway of the living room.

“We need to talk, young lady.”

“Well, that sounds ominous,” Quinn joked, stepping out of the hall and into the room. “What’s up?”

“Lester just told me you’ve been spending quite a lot of time with Silas Kelly and I don’t like it.”

Quinn’s first inclination at Uncle Leo’s gruff overprotectiveness was to laugh but there was an edge to Uncle Leo that told her laughing wouldn’t go over well.

“We’re working together,” she started but Leo cut her off.

“Feds don’t work with reporters. It’s like asking me to believe that a hungry bear just wants to be friends with the fish he just caught.”

“That’s a terrible analogy,” Quinn said, trying to smile but Leo wasn’t in the mood.

“I don’t know what’s come over you but since Silas Kelly returned to this town, you’ve changed and not for the better.”

“And what does that mean?”

“It means you used to be sweet and now...you’re...just, for lack of a better word, a ball-buster and I don’t like it.”

Frankly, Quinn took his observation as a compliment, even though he hadn’t meant it that way.

“I told you, I have a job to do and I’m taking that job seriously. Silas is helping me as much as I help him. It’s a mutually satisfying arrangement.”

Her thighs still ached from being satisfied. Twice.

“I told Lester he ought to cut Silas loose and put his own detective on the case. This ought to be handled by a local anyway.”

Outrage on Silas’s behalf sharpened her voice, and she never spoke to her uncle like that but she was pissed that everyone seemed to think it was okay to tell her how to live her life. “Harrison Dex is an idiot. He couldn’t find his ass with both hands. If Lester put Harrison on the case, the investigation would go nowhere and Rhia’s killer would go free. Surely, you don’t want that, right?”

“Of course not,” he snapped. “But Port Orion doesn’t need a Fed telling our deputies how to handle themselves in an investigation. It sends the message that we’re somehow incompetent and that’s a terrible thing to put on Lester when he’s worked so hard to be a good sheriff all these years.”

“Silas isn’t doing that,” Quinn retorted, baffled. “He’s following his own leads and handling everything himself, freeing up the deputies to do their usual jobs of keeping the peace around here. Honestly, Uncle Leo, where is this coming from? You do realize I’m not a teenager anymore, right? And I’m sure as hell not a virgin, either, so if you’re trying to protect my purity, that ship has long since sailed.

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