Code of Justice by Liz Johnson

Author:Liz Johnson
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Publisher: Steeple Hill
Published: 2011-03-13T16:00:00+00:00

TEN

The sun peeked through Heather’s bedroom window the next morning, but she hadn’t been able to turn her mind off all night for replaying the brief conversation with Mick Gordon over and over.

“I want to know why someone is trying to kill me,” she had said.

He spluttered inelegantly, his voice cracking on the first syllable. “I don’t know what you mean.”

She looked across the table at Jeremy, suddenly uncertain about her rash decision to call the only contact they’d been able to decipher in Kit’s notes. He motioned for her to continue but made no sound to give away his presence.

“Yes, you do. You knew my sister, Kit, didn’t you?”

He was silent so long that Heather thought Mick might not respond, but finally, he said, “We met.”

Heather rolled her eyes at his evasive maneuver. “I think Kit was looking into a case that she was keeping very quiet. Did you help her out with that? Maybe give her some information?”

“No.”

Heather squeezed her fists until her knuckles turned white, glaring from Jeremy to the phone and back. Finally, Jeremy scribbled something on a blank corner of one of the yellow sheets of paper, and he spun the paper so Heather could read it.

Try a different direction. Ask him about PNW.

“Mr. Gordon—” she took a deep breath through her nose letting it out slowly, hoping her voice came out soothing and not how she really felt “—have you heard of a sightseeing company called PNW?”

“Course I have. They’ve been in the news lately.”

She strangled a pained sigh before it could escape. “Had you heard about them before the recent helicopter crash?”

“Maybe.”

Jeremy’s head perked up, and he nodded slowly, his hands making slow rowing motions in front of him. Heather nodded, taking her time to ask the right question, terrified of losing the tenuous connection she’d forged with the man on the other end of the phone.

“My sister knew someone at PNW, but she never told me who it was. Did you know the same person there?”

“I don’t know. She didn’t tell me who she knew there.”

“What did she tell you?”

The man swallowed audibly, and Heather rubbed her face with open hands, realizing for the first time that night that she was really tired. Struggling to keep a yawn at bay, she let her eyes dart to Jeremy, who watched her with unblinking eyes. While tempted to let her thoughts wander to what had kept her from falling asleep in the first place, Mick’s quiet voice brought her focus right where it should be.

“She said she thought there was more going on at PNW than sightseeing tours. Your sister said she was going to prosecute the people involved and me, too, if I didn’t cooperate.”

“So you cooperated? What did she have on you that would have sent you to jail?”

“I told her everything I knew about the drugs, but I didn’t mean…” His voice got so quiet that she couldn’t hear him.

“Mick? Are you still there?”

He was silent a long time before he sighed.

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