What Echoes Render by Schultz Tamsen

Author:Schultz, Tamsen [Schultz, Tamsen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Booktrope
Published: 2014-05-14T04:00:00+00:00

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Morning didn’t even feel like morning when David rolled over and woke Jesse up for the umpteenth time. Since she wasn’t hooked up to any machines to monitor her brain function, he wasn’t about to let her sleep through her concussion. Thankfully, he could take her to the hospital for the MRI today, and then if they got the green light, they could nap as long as they wanted in the afternoon. Not that he’d be able to nap too long, he still had to head out to the scene of a suspected arson north of Albany, but he could have a short rest.

“Do I look as bad as I feel?” Her voice was gravelly as she pushed her hair out of her face. All things considered, she looked pretty good, and he told her so.

“You’re biased.” She cuddled up against him and he wrapped his arms around her.

“Yep.”

He felt her laugh softly into his chest. Then she said, “And I’m glad.”

She started tracing her fingers along the lines of his chest. Her gentle touch wasn’t trying to arouse him, which was probably why it always did, because there was nothing coy in it, just her enjoying him.

“We need to get you to the hospital for the MRI.” He picked up her hand and kissed her palm.

She mumbled an assent, but neither of them moved. He was just about to drift off to sleep again when his phone buzzed beside him. Picking it up, he read the number, frowned, then answered.

“Chief,” he said.

“We need you up at the site, stat,” came the abrupt reply.

At the tone of his boss’s voice, David paused before answering. “I was planning to head up there this afternoon.”

“Too bad, we need you up there now. Turns out the guy who owns the building is a key witness in a mafia racketeering case and the feds want to know everything there is to know about what caused that fire.”

“Because they want to link it to their case?” he asked. It wasn’t unheard of, but these kinds of connections, or potential connections, had come along very rarely in his career.

“Yeah, they want to know if one the mafia goons did it. Turns out the defendant in the case has some firebugs on his payroll and they would sure like to know if our fire shares any of the same signatures.”

David sighed and looked at the clock. “I can be there in ninety minutes.” That would give him enough time to get Jesse back home and then him back up to the site.

“Good, the feds are coming in and will be there about the same time.” His chief rattled off the names of the people David would meet and then hung up.

He looked down at her. She was watching him.

“You have to go in?”

He nodded.

“Everything okay?”

He told her what the chief had told him and then they both reluctantly left the bed.

“You still need to get your MRI,” he pointed out as he pulled on his clothes. They’d showered the night before when they’d arrived at his house.

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