Danger in Numbers by Heather Graham

Author:Heather Graham
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: MIRA Books
Published: 2021-01-12T15:33:23+00:00

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Hunter was already at the dining room table with coffee. He had his computer out and was studying the screen intently when Amy came out of her room, showered and ready to face the day. She had slept deeply, and she was glad she’d set her alarm—otherwise, she’d have still been sleeping deeply.

She was surprised because she’d thought, as tired as she was, she’d have a hard time falling asleep. There had been that strange moment between her and Hunter in the hall...

And she had thought maybe, just maybe, there would be a tap at her door; she would whisper he should come in, and then...

She’d imagined all kinds of things she probably shouldn’t.

At least she had slept well once she’d slept. She knew it was in part because Hunter had been so near. He had her back, and she could let down her guard.

And now it was morning. They had a witness to interrogate today, a witness who would most probably be charged with a federal crime: Artie had taken part in holding Martin and Patty hostage.

But she didn’t think, in the end, the young man could have killed anyone. That wouldn’t matter legally; he had aided and abetted Hank in his plans.

While Amy was not nearly as experienced as a man like John Schultz, she had worked vice and homicide for Metro-Miami-Dade. She’d spent two years with the FDLE. She’d seen bodies on the beach, and bodies in barrels, encountered those with the drug cartels who had executed another in the blink of the eye.

She’d learned something about people.

If she was any judge at all of human beings, Artie wasn’t a bad person. She even wondered if, had she not been able to get his pill away from him, he would have gone through with suicide. But they would talk to Artie again this morning. Possibly, there was something he could say.

“Morning,” Hunter said, looking up. “There’s coffee. There’s sugar, fake sugar and powdered creamer, if you like.”

She smiled. “I used to like cream in my coffee, but then there were too many times it was nonexistent or going bad in the station when I first started working,” she told him. “Black is just fine. What are you studying?”

He looked up at her and he was quiet for a minute, and she wondered again if he, too, hadn’t thought a little bit about her.

“I think that I know who is behind this,” he told her.

“Oh?” she said.

Uh, no. He had his eye on the prize.

He hesitated.

“Okay, I don’t have anything to back this up yet, but I believe Ethan Morrison is the ‘Divine Leader.’”

“Okay,” she said slowly, sliding into the seat next to him. “I hate, loathe, passionately despise everything the man has done and gotten away with, but we can’t jump to an assumption like that, Hunter.”

“I listened to Artie last night when he was speaking with you. Artie was a kid who couldn’t get a girl, and Hank convinced him that if he followed the Divine Leader, he’d get a girl.

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