You Can't Escape by Nancy Bush

Author:Nancy Bush [Bush, Nancy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2015-06-30T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

On Saturday morning, Auggie met with Agents Bethwick and Donley at a café in downtown Portland near the station. When cases were hot, he worked them all hours. He had no gripe with meeting the two FBI agents, but it was going to be on his terms. They wanted to hash over the case, pick his brain, and that was all fine and good, but he didn’t feel like telling them everything. He’d known too many good cops who’d been run over by the feds. He didn’t plan on that happening to him.

Bethwick started, taking him through his investigation so far, but offering nothing in return about what they’d learned from the Saldanos. This was no two-way street, but Auggie meant to appear more cooperative than he was. Bethwick was tough and bullying, a bad-cop persona, while Donley tended to step in and smooth over rough spots. Auggie told him his own impressions about Max and Victor Saldano, but kept information about Carmen to himself. As if she were aware of what he was doing, he got a call on his cell from an unidentified number, which he decided to answer as a matter of course to give himself a break from the two agents, only to realize it was Carmen herself. When that happened, he cut the phone conversation short in a hurry, hoping they didn’t pick up on the identity of the caller. Luckily, they were more interested in him getting off the phone so that they could ask more questions. He hung up and let them go on awhile until their questions ran in circles, then he made it clear he was tapped out of information.

The two of them reluctantly left him at the café, where he drank black coffee and pretended to peruse a newspaper until they were out of sight. Then he pulled out his cell phone again and looked at Carmen Danziger’s number.

A moment later he was out of the café and heading for his Jeep, which he noted could use a wash, the color more light gray than dark beneath the road dust. He climbed behind the wheel, then pulled from his pocket the piece of paper on which he’d jotted down Jordanna Winters’s information. Before he talked to Carmen, he wanted to know everything he could about Jordanna. He’d driven into her apartment complex the day before, knocked on her door, but no one had answered. He’d also put in a call to her cell, but when it had gone to voice mail, he’d hung up without leaving a message. He didn’t want to give away that he was looking for her unless he had to.

Now he drove back to her apartment complex, but her place seemed just as deserted as it had the day before. Back in the Jeep, he placed a call to Diane, one of the data researchers at the department. “Diane,” he said congenially when she answered. “I wondered if you could look something up for me.”

“Of course you do.

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