Thirst by Jacquelyn Frank

Author:Jacquelyn Frank
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Loveswept
Published: 2017-01-16T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Renee was poring over one of her open cases when Jimmy parked his ass on her desk.

“So you’re pretty subdued today,” he observed.

“How so?” she asked, looking up at him. A nervous quiver jumped into her belly. Was she not acting normal? She was trying to act normal. As if she didn’t know this huge secret.

“Yeah. Usually you’d be out pounding the streets really aggressively after we’ve caught a new case. Today you’re just looking over cases that are going cold or are almost closed.”

“Well,” she said, tapping the file in her hand. “This is the Grovener murder. Tommy Grovener is coming in at three for an interview.”

“So what’s to review? We already know he’s guilty. You ought to have issued a warrant for him already.”

“It’s better this way. He comes in voluntarily, so we don’t have to chase him down. He thinks he’s going to get information out of us, when in fact we are going to get a confession out of him. And if I’m going to get that confession, I better damn well know the case inside and out. So should you. You’ll be in there with me.”

“I already know the case by heart. And so do you. C’mon. What gives? Why aren’t we out scoping more bars or whatever? Our doer is getting farther and farther away every minute we waste.”

“It doesn’t help the case to run around without direction. We’ll wait until we hear back from one of the bars we already went to. That one seemed like a good line.”

“Yeah. Maybe. But shouldn’t we be interviewing the family and his work? Maybe it wasn’t a stranger at all. Maybe he knew his killer.”

“Of course. We’ll do all of that. I just want to get this Grovener thing under our belts, then we’ll focus on our new one. Okay?”

Jimmy seemed to think about it, taking a moment to narrow his eyes on her and scrutinize her face. “And you’re sure that’s all it is? You just want to get this one done?”

“That’s all it is,” she assured him.

“All right. I’ll buy it for now. But I want this guy. He did the vic in broad daylight. A guy like that doesn’t care who he hurts and he doesn’t care if he gets caught. That makes him dangerous.”

“Tell me about it,” she said darkly.

“Don’t worry. We’ll catch him. Hopefully before he does someone else.”

“Yeah,” Renee said with an internal wince. “Hopefully.”

“C’mon. It’s lunchtime. Let’s get out of here a little while.”

“Oh. No. I’ll eat here.” She indicated her desk.

“C’mon. We’ll go to Mrs. Pho’s. You love pho.”

Renee’s stomach rumbled in response to the suggestion and Jimmy chuckled. He snatched up her coat from the back of her chair and pulled her to her feet, forcing her to drop the file onto her desk.

“No really, Jimmy. I have to stay in,” she said, Rafe’s warning resounding in her head.

“The only thing you have to do is eat. Come on. Move it. Go.”

Jimmy slipped her jacket onto her arms and was guiding her out of the precinct a moment later.

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