Zane [Dark Riders 3] (Siren Publishing Everlasting Classic ManLove) by Lynn Hagen

Author:Lynn Hagen
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
Published: 2014-04-04T04:00:00+00:00

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Ames waited for Tate one block south of Second Street. The crime scene had already been taped off and the cops were redirecting traffic. Jagged lightning cut across the dark sky a few miles away as a breeze began to pick up and shuffle weightless trash into corners.

A brown Crown Vic pulled in behind the patrol car and Tate got out. The hair around Tate’s jaw had grown out a little more. After working with the man for so many years, Ames knew the signs. Tate was distracted.

“What do we have?” Tate slipped a light jacket on as he approached. A uniform tried to stop Tate until the detective showed his badge. Ames couldn’t stop thinking about earlier, when he’d spotted a blacked-out Ducati sitting in Tate’s driveway. He curled his fingers in to stifle the angry growl he wanted to let loose.

Ames went over the crime scene with Tate, wondering why Tate was allowing that piece-of-shit Dark Rider around him. It didn’t make any sense. Maybe Ames was looking at this all wrong. Maybe Zane really was an informant. But cops didn’t meet their informants at their houses.

The what-ifs and the not knowing were making Ames’s back teeth grind together. After the crime scene unit did their thing and the body was hauled away, Tate slipped back into his car and left.

Ames was standing on the street, gazing at the taillights when he felt someone behind him. He turned and immediately recognized the guy. It was the brother of the victim in the case Ames and Tate were supposed to be working, but weren’t. It seemed Ames’s partner didn’t have time for him any longer. “Striker Hullender.”

Another one of Paradise City’s resident scum.

The guy was wearing an expensive suit and a charming smile. He held his hand out and Ames ignored it. “Detective Ames.”

“What can I do for you?” There was something about Mr. Hullender, something off-putting. There was no denying he was a handsome man, in an executive sort of way. But his eyes. The smile didn’t reach them, and Ames felt as if he were staring at the devil. Ames also knew this guy was on the ATF’s watch list.

There were no more pleasantries after the failed handshake. The guy got down to the meat and bones of things. “I know your secret.”

Ames felt his guard slam into place. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.” He started for his car, but Mr. Hullender stepped in front of Ames, offering that false, friendly smile again. “I’d like to make a deal with you.”

“I don’t make deals with criminals.” Ames tried to move around Mr. Hullender once again, and once again the guy blocked him.

“I noticed your partner is becoming increasingly involved with Zane Mancinni. As much as you may want to turn a blind eye to that fact, you know as well as I that things are about to get ugly.”

The guy had hit a nerve. Ames narrowed his eyes. “Get to your point.”

The skies opened up and rain began to fall.

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