Winter Kill: FBI Mystery Thriller (Dean Blackwood FBI Mystery Thriller Book 5) by Sam Jones

Author:Sam Jones [Jones, Sam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

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Dean looked over the series of welts, bruises, and small lacerations on Freddy’s face as his protégé dabbed at them with an ice pack.

“Looks worse than it feels,” Freddy said, seated on the edge of his bed as Dean tended to his wounds. “I’ve had worse. One time one of my mom’s boyfriends beat the shit out of me so bad that I couldn’t see out of my left eye for like a week.”

This is my fault, Dean thought.

I should have never made him do this.

“They tuned me up pretty good,” Freddy groaned as he dabbed at his split lip with a bloody hand towel. “I got a few punches in, but they just started hammering me. By the time I woke up, they were gone. They took my shoes, too.” The kid glanced down at his sneaker-less feet. “The hell is that? This an episode of Oz or something? I had to walk back here to the motel barefoot.”

Dean took a beat.

Stood back.

Cursed at himself internally for the plan he had put into motion.

“I’m sorry, Freddy,” Dean said. “This was a mistake. We should have never done this. I don’t know what the hell I was thinking.”

“It’s my fault, man.” Freddy shifted the ice pack to the welt under his left eye. “It was too soon for me to do this. I thought I had it.”

Dean shook his head. “This doesn’t make sense,” he said. “If Logan thought you were a cop or whatever, why tune you up? He could’ve just ignored you completely. Him beating you up would've run the risk of him getting arrested.”

“He’s a jackass,” Freddy said. “He’s hot-headed.” He flinched at the pain in his shoulder. “That’s all there is to it.”

“No,” Dean said. “No, before Logan kicked your ass⁠—”

“It was five against one.”

“Whatever,” Dean waved his hand through the air. “Before it happened, you told me that Logan called you a ‘fake-ass cop.’ Then he said, ‘fuck the dude that sent you here.’”

“So?”

“So, he was talking about me. He knew you weren’t a cop.” Dean took a beat to think. “Someone must have dimed you out, dimed us out, before you got to that school.”

“You don’t know that,” Freddy said. “This whole thing could be explained by me not simply pulling off the ruse.”

“I don’t think so.”

“Well, if someone told Logan that I was working with you,” Freddy said, “then who was it?”

“I don’t know,” Dean said. “I’m not sure. It’s a small town, so word travels fast. Maybe people were wise enough to know who we were and why we’re here.” He clenched a fist. “All I know is that we’re not any closer to figuring things out than when we started. We don’t know if drugs have something to do with what happened to Luke or Daria. All we know is that someone ratted you out to Logan, and they wanted Logan to send some kind of a message.”

Freddy groaned and laid back on the bed.

Dean flared his nostrils. “This is screwed,” he said.

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