Black Lace by Beverly Jenkins

Author:Beverly Jenkins [Beverly Jenkins]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9780061739347
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2006-12-12T23:00:00+00:00

Eleven

Drake got the word on Leo Vasquez’s condition around midnight. The surgeons were able to remove the bullet, but the next forty-eight hours would be critical as to whether he’d make it or not. Drake knew how strong Lena’s husband was in both mind and spirit, and if anyone could survive, Leo would. There’d been no word on the shooter, however. The street investigation and canvassing was ongoing. According to witnesses, two perps had burst into the party store with guns. They’d demanded cash from the clerk, only to be confronted by Leo and Mary, who were in the store buying coffee. When Leo yelled for the perp to drop his gun, the second shooter somehow came up behind Mary, shot her, and put a bullet in Leo’s chest. Leo managed to plug the killer in the leg before collapsing. Then Mary’s killer and his bleeding friend ran, jumped into an old Buick, and disappeared into the night. The store clerk guessed the whole incident took less than thirty seconds.

Drake shook his head at yet another senseless loss of life. He was home, and the interior of the mansion was dark. He’d drawn the drapes back and was standing in front of the living room’s wide window looking out over the black ribbon of the river at the lights of Windsor on the other side. Myk had been pressuring him to make a decision about reelection, but he still hadn’t made up his mind. On one hand, he thought that given four more years he could make a difference in the city’s quality of life, but on the other hand, the job seemed to be a thankless one, not to mention having to deal with evenings like this one.

At this point in his life he should be coming home to a wife and a couple of kids every night. Having never had a father, he planned on playing a major league role in his hypothetical children’s lives, but because of the choices he was making, he hadn’t had time to look for that special lady. He’d done med school, then interned, then took a coveted residency position in Boston. Coming back to Detroit, he chose to go into thoracic surgery, which turned out to be a good move, especially after his successful work on a linebacker for the hometown Lions. The linebacker and the team were so impressed by his skill, they began referring other players to him, who told other players, who in turn told other players, and soon Drake was working on football players, hockey legends, and basketball phenoms from across the country. For a kid from the east side of Detroit, his life back then was off the chain, because everywhere athletes went, parties and women followed.

He had tickets to Super Bowls and NBA All-Star weekends; he went to birthday bashes thrown by athletes, complete with pools and half-naked video hos on the arms of the rapper of the week. He’d partied, tasted the caviar, the women,

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