Twisted by Eden Cynthia

Author:Eden, Cynthia [Eden, Cynthia]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Mystery, Suspense, Contemporary, Adult
Publisher: Avon
Published: 2015-04-27T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN . . .” DEAN DEMANDED, his voice low and lethal as fury surged inside of him, “you . . . lost her?”

Kevin’s jaw was tightly clenched. “I mean just what I said, okay? I lost her.”

They were at a New Orleans police station, in a room the FBI had taken over with its “task force.” Elroy was sitting at the conference table, like a king at his throne, and Dean was about two seconds away from lunging over and beating the hell out of Kevin. “You were supposed to keep her safe!” This couldn’t be happening.

“If she’d cooperated, she would be safe.” Kevin started pacing. “She tricked me. Got me to stop at the St. Louis Cemetery—”

“Which damn one?” Dean cut in.

Kevin stopped. Frowned. “What?”

Sarah cleared her throat. She’d been sitting at the conference table, watching the others. “There are three St. Louis cemeteries in New Orleans.”

Kevin’s eyes closed. “Look, she gave me this sob story about her friend Lisa being buried. I knew that was the woman Ricker killed in the square. I agreed to stop by the cemetery for a few moments, so she could say her good-byes.”

Rage was seriously about to choke Dean.

Victoria eased a bit closer to Kevin. She’d been working in the morgue but had come to join their little screwed up group a few minutes ago. “Lisa Nyle hasn’t been released to her family yet. She’s still in the morgue.”

Elroy’s hands slammed down on the table. “She was tricking you.”

Kevin whirled toward him. “Yeah, I get that now. But I thought she was legit, and stopping by the cemetery for a few minutes didn’t seem like too much trouble. I didn’t know she’d pull some kind of Houdini on me and vanish.”

He should have known. He should have fucking known. “Which St. Louis cemetery?” Dean demanded once more.

“It doesn’t matter!” Kevin threw his hands up in the air. “I searched. The cops with me searched. That woman is gone. She’s in the wind. Hell, she probably was on her way out of New Orleans five minutes after she cleared the cemetery.”

He grabbed his ex-partner. Shoved him into the wall.

“Dean!” Sarah’s sharp voice.

He didn’t respond to Sarah’s cry. Through clenched teeth, he gritted to Kevin, “You told me that you’d keep her safe. He’s out there, after her. You were supposed to protect her.”

“She ran away.”

Because she hadn’t wanted to be caged. And the FBI, oh, yes, they would have caged her.

“You should have left her with me. I was keeping her safe.”

Kevin glared right back at him. Voice dropping, Kevin said, “The same way you kept Charlotte safe? Because you were supposed to save her, too, weren’t you?”

He’d fucking tried.

Sarah’s fingers curled around his shoulder. “Dean, let him go. This isn’t the way a task force cooperates.”

No, hell, no, it wasn’t. He was no idiot, but Emma was missing. How could they not all be panicking? “He could have her already,” Dean rasped. He hadn’t let Kevin go.

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