Cavanaugh’s Woman by Marie Ferrarella

Author:Marie Ferrarella [Ferrarella, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Suspense
Publisher: Silhouette Special Edition
Published: 2010-08-01T05:00:00+00:00

It broke her heart.

The kind of life she and her father and sister had led never took them to the seamier streets, the kind she found herself on now as Reese and Shaw drove around, looking for underage prostitutes to question. It wasn’t easy. Word had gotten around and the girls were scattering like so many mice before a hungry cat.

Her father, Moira realized as she looked around, had sheltered them from this kind of thing. Sheltered them from the despair, the poverty that first ate away at a person’s self-respect, then devoured all hope, leaving nothing but a skeleton of misery in its place.

She wished she knew where her father was now, so she could thank him. The kind of life they’d led hadn’t been orthodox, but he’d done what he could to make sure they had what they needed.

Moira saw despair on the faces of the women who paraded themselves on the corner.

She rocked back and forth on her seat, impatient. Captive of her word. She’d given it to Shaw, saying she was going to stay inside the car the way he’d told her to. It allowed her only the vaguest of views. But even that was almost too much.

Old before their time, worn-out, these women who sold their bodies in order to survive another day were the walking dead. It was only a matter of time before they turned up as lifeless corpses, victims of some kind of terrible crime.

Moira shivered as she watched Shaw approach yet another prostitute. How could he stand going out into this day after day? How did he keep from having it drain him dry? Did he reconnect with something life-affirming every night? Was that what kept him going? She didn’t know, but she was certainly beginning to admire the man a great deal.

They’d been at this the better part of the day, riding around to corners like this one, questioning the women they did find, searching for the younger ones, the dropouts and the runaways who had no idea what they were getting themselves into.

Jenkins, the porno shop owner, had given them the name of his landlord, the man who held both the deed to the firetrap that housed his business and who’d supplied the Kiddies for Kicks tapes that had been found on the premises. But as of this morning, the landlord was nowhere to be found. Shaw had a hunch that he would turn up in some shallow grave somewhere. This was bigger than just some lowly scum.

They needed more leads. If enough leads came their way, one of them would hopefully send them off into the right direction.

All it took was one.

Moira continued staring out the window, wishing she was closer, wishing she could hear what was being said, but Shaw had been very stern as he’d issued his warning. He’d underscored it by saying he didn’t want her in harm’s way. It was either his way or no way and she had a feeling that this time, he meant it.

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