Underground by Skye Warren

Author:Skye Warren
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Fiction
Publisher: Skye Warren
Published: 2016-06-30T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Luke reclined on the chair, stress wrinkling the skin between his brows. I knew he was thinking about his sister. I wished I could help, though if I knew for sure she had overdosed or met some other grisly fate, I wasn’t sure I could tell him. It didn’t matter because his description of her matched half the prostitutes I’d ever met. Even Jenny, from the blowout at the corporate party, fit the physical description.

Except she was too young, and so was I. With the beginnings of leathery skin and crinkles at his eyes when he smiled, Luke was in his midthirties. At thirty, his sister would be ancient in the realm of prostitution. If I had met a woman that old working for Henri, I would have remembered.

But I hadn’t. “I’m sorry.”

“I know it’s too late to help her. I just wish I knew what happened to her. Then maybe I could…”

“Avenge her?”

His lids were hooded. “Maybe I could move on.”

A shiver ran through me, a sense of camaraderie. That was what I wanted too—for myself. Both of us were trapped by the ghosts of our pasts, him by his sister and me by my father.

“What then?” I asked. “Would you still work for the CPD?”

He shrugged. “Being a cop is all I know, but the only reason I became one was to find Daisy. I couldn’t get them to help me, to care about her. So I figured if I was on the inside, I could look for her myself. I didn’t understand then how many girls go missing, how little time there is. You can’t do this job and get choked up about every little injustice. I turned into the cops I hated. Putting in my hours and, at the end of the day, barely making a difference.”

“Don’t sell yourself short. You did a lot for me. You were the one who convinced me to quit.”

He laughed sharply. “Some good that did you.”

“Hey, things aren’t so bad.” As I spoke the words, I realized they were true. This cottage felt like it was a million miles from civilization—and from danger. In the whole world, there was only the two of us. The darkness and distance wove a cocoon around us, keeping the scary predators and unkind world out of sight and out of mind.

“How long can we stay here?” I asked.

He shrugged. “From my talk with Todd, it’s clear Henri has gone to ground. I have a few people who can help me with tracking him down, but I can coordinate that from here. It’s a secure location, completely untraceable. We can stay here until we find him.”

I thought of Henri’s new hideout, the Barracks. But if I told Luke, we would have to leave. If I told him, the cocoon would dissolve. Henri would still be there a week from now, but I would never have this chance again. Of course, it was selfish. This wasn’t just about me or Claire. Luke wanted to take Henri down for reasons of his own.

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