The Seraphina Donavan Collection: Contemporary by Donavan Seraphina

Author:Donavan, Seraphina [Donavan, Seraphina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-09-17T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIVE

Dixie appeared, dropping onto the chaise lounge next to him.

It’d only been ten minutes since he got to the pool and realized she was nowhere in sight, but it had been the longest ten minutes of his life. “Where the heck did you go?”

“I forgot my sunscreen,” she said. “Can we talk?”

He lowered his sunglasses and stared at her suspiciously. “I really hope you’re asking if we can talk safely here and you’re not just dumping me.”

“I can’t dump you if we’re not together,” she replied. “But yes, I was asking about how freely we can speak here.”

He sat up, leaning over with his elbows resting on his knees. “Talk to me, Dixie. Tell me what the hell is going on. Where were you and what did you find out?”

“Mahoney is skimming money from the hotel and a man named Tony Danova, who is in prison for something that happened in Gresham County. Also, Mahoney’s goons hate him and would be willing to turn on him for witness protection.”

In ten minutes, she’d gotten more info than he had in two weeks. “How the hell did you find all that out?”

“Boobs.”

“What? Did you—Mahoney?”

She huffed out a breath. “Not my boobs, you jackass! Frankie’s”

That was a place he never wanted to go. Shuddering, he said, “How is she—Never mind. I don’t really want to know. So, Danova is in charge of the money laundering through the casino, but Mahoney has been skimming…Danova isn’t getting out of prison any time soon, which means he must be sending someone to check in on Mahoney.”

“He’s looking for a source of cash, some way to cover up whatever he’s done.”

Nick knew from the expression on Dixie’s face that there was more. She looked, for lack of a better word, guilty. “What else, Dixie?”

“Mahoney’s main goon is tied to the bed in Frankie and Irma’s suite, drugged with haldol and sporting a concussion. Frankie plans to use that same haldol to drug Mahoney and get access to his safe and his records.”

She could have told him she had two heads and it would have made more sense that what she just said. “Back up to the part where you and two old ladies took out a two hundred and thirty pound bodyguard who moonlights as a hitman?”

“That was mostly Frankie and Irma. Well, Nana really. She hit him with her cane a couple of times while Frankie distracted him by talking about alien abductions.”

The words were pouring out of Dixie at such a speed, it took all of his concentration to keep up.

“I just tied him up, but then he was asking where I learned to tie knots and I’m certainly not having that conversation with my grandmother standing by, so I told her to hit him again. I wanted Frankie to back off the haldol. You’ll need to question him right?”

Nick was shaking his head, wondering how the hell a reasonably organized but probably doomed undercover operation had gone to hell in a vaguely S & M hand-basket within twenty-four hours of the three crazy ass Claiborne women showing up.

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