Twisted and Tied by Mary Calmes

Author:Mary Calmes [Calmes, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 978-1-64080-172-1
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2018-03-13T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

WHILE KELSON sat in one of our six holding rooms, Ryan and Dorsey manned the office. Kage, who was in the process of moving down the hall and giving Becker his old office, was meeting with Adair’s boss and his boss’s boss—the Feds had an organizational chart that was hard to follow—as well as the police superintendent and the deputy mayor.

Eli and I stopped on the way back to the office for coffee because I was frozen inside, plus something to eat because, as he said, “You look like you’re going to pass out.”

“How’d you know?” Eli asked as we sat in the drive-thru at Starbucks.

“That Kelson was wrong?”

He grunted.

“It’s a sad truth, but no one knows Hartley like me.”

“Do you think he had anything to do with that?”

“No. That kind of vigilantism has never been him.”

“But he’s still out there somewhere killing people.”

I shook my head. “I disagree. It’s not him anymore, and I don’t know how to explain it other than it’s like the killing he did, that’s out of his system.”

“But you can’t say that for certain.”

“Yeah, I can,” I sighed, leaning my head back. “I think if the Feds just let him go now, he wouldn’t be a threat anymore.”

“Willing to stake your life on it?”

I thought a moment of what I knew of Hartley. “Yes.”

“No shit?” He was startled and turned to me instead of ordering, stunned.

“I need a red eye, so tell her,” I said, pointing at the speaker. “And get me a scone.”

At the window, Eli was still so flustered when she told him they were out of blueberry scones, and did he want something else, that he started saying things they didn’t even have. Once they agreed on a chocolate croissant, he tried to give the cashier a hundred-dollar bill she clearly wasn’t about to break. I leaned across him and passed her my phone instead.

“Thank you,” she said, shooting Eli a look of pure distaste.

When he pulled away, I patted his thigh. “Calm yourself.”

“You realize that right now you sound as psycho as Hartley.”

I turned to him and laughed. “Really? Just as psycho?”

He had to pull over so I could drive when he realized he’d compared me to a serial killer.

Once we were back at the office, Kage told Eli to get his ass back to the crime scene so he could keep the reporters off Ian and Becker.

He didn’t want to argue, but he didn’t want to leave me either.

“Redeker,” Kage barked, and Redeker rose from Kowalski’s desk, which was apparently going to become his, and crossed the room to me. “You’re with Jones today.”

“Yessir.”

Kage pointed at the door, and Eli moved fast, talking to me over his shoulder. “I’ll tell Ian as soon as I get there.”

“I’ll call too,” I told him before turning back to Kage, who had left without another word. “Okay, I guess that was all,” I said to no one in particular before pulling my phone from the breast pocket of my suit jacket to call Ian.

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