The Lover: The Luke Titan Chronicles by Beers David

Author:Beers, David
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-07-09T00:00:00+00:00

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The problem, as Luke saw it, was that Christian had simply stopped caring. It was obvious from his computer that he planned on leaving the FBI once he finished with Ted Hinson. He planned to simply walk into Ted’s house, find the women or the women’s bodies (Christian wasn’t sure if they were dead), and then kill Hinson.

Christian, apparently, was okay with doing jail time if necessary.

Luke had to stop that from taking place—not the jail time, but Christian killing Hinson just yet.

Luke walked into Tommy’s office, shutting the door behind him.

Tommy held the phone to his ear and looked at Luke questioningly.

Luke motioned for him to hang up the phone.

“Hey, something just came up that’s pretty important. Can I call you back in a few minutes? … Sure. Thanks a lot.” He put the phone down. “I hope this is important. That was the cop who found the body from yesterday.”

“Christian,” Luke said. “I think he’s about to do something very foolish.”

“What do you mean?”

Luke walked across the room and stood behind the chair in front of Tommy’s desk. “He’s going after Hinson.”

“How do you know?”

“He told me, in so many words.”

“What? When?” Tommy asked.

“Last night. He showed up late like he used to.”

“What exactly did he say?”

“Basically, that he couldn’t stand by while people were being kidnapped. Not even if Waverly directed him to.”

“Jesus Christ,” Tommy said. “What did you tell him?”

“That he needed to calm down.”

The two men stared at each other for a moment as Tommy thought.

“Is he here today?”

“Yes,” Luke said. “In his office.”

“Well, let’s go down there.” Tommy started to stand.

“Think that through. What will happen if we walk down there? He’ll say he has no such plans and then stop telling me whatever he is thinking.”

Tommy sat back down. “So what do we do?”

“First, you can’t tell him I told you this, okay?”

“Why?” Tommy asked.

“Because, it violates trust he put in me. If he asks, just say you figured it out.”

“Fine. It won’t really matter if the guy kills someone. What are we going to do?”

“We have to follow him,” Luke said. “We have to catch him in the act, right before he makes his move.”

“Put a tail on Christian? That’s what you’re suggesting?”

Luke nodded, his face solemn. “But not anyone else. You and me. I don’t want to get him in trouble, which is what will happen if we put someone else on him. We’ll take turns watching. I don’t think it will take long.”

Tommy shook his head and looked at his desk. “Alice … She’ll understand, I suppose.” He looked back up. “You’re sure about this?”

“I wouldn’t bring it to you if I wasn’t.”

“Goddamnit. Aren’t either of the two shrinks that he’s seeing helping him at all? He’s losing his mind. He really is.”

“When we catch him in the act, we give him an ultimatum: either he sincerely gets help and willingly steps aside for a few months, or we go to Waverly.”

Tommy sighed. “Okay. How do we do

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