Dark Angel by D.K. Hood

Author:D.K. Hood [Hood, D.K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781837903832
Published: 2023-09-11T16:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-EIGHT

It was the early hours of the morning by the time Beth made her way inside the hotel and went to her room, leaving Styles to return the van. In the distance she could hear sirens blaring as fire trucks rushed toward the alleyway. Unconcerned, she pushed her disguise into a garbage bag and stuffed it into her luggage. She’d burn it when she returned to Rattlesnake Creek. Leaving evidence behind wasn’t in her game plan. She’d showered and pulled on PJs when a soft knock came on her door and she peered through the peephole to find Styles in the hallway. She opened the door to let him inside. “What’s the plan?”

“What do you mean by ‘what’s the plan’?” Styles dashed a hand through his hair and then paced up and down the room. “In the space of six hours on the job with you, I have about twenty grand of illegal drug money in my room, four injured men, and an out-of-control fire is raging downtown. I’m not stupid, Beth. Bending the rules is one thing but what happened tonight is beyond reckless.”

As far as Beth was concerned, everything had gone as planned and the drug bust had been a bonus. “I figure you need to calm down and take a breath. You’re looking kind of intimidating right now.”

“Well, I figure I’ll calm down when you come clean about what really happened tonight.” He stopped walking in front of her and stared her down. “I was watching that alleyway the entire time. The girls had barely climbed inside the van when a Lincoln came out of the parking garage and headed past me and down the alley. One of them told me that was Spike’s sedan and he was their pimp out looking for them. They were terrified of him. Now one thing is for darn sure: that Lincoln never came back out of the alleyway.”

Shaking her head, Beth lifted her chin. “Man, you are so intense.” She gave him an outline of her plan to remove the clients and get Spike alone, but from Styles’ expression, he wasn’t buying a word of it.

“Now don’t try and tell me nothing happened in there.” He pointed a finger at her. “You had marks all over the front of your shirt.”

Surprised by his astuteness, Beth sat on the edge of the sofa and raised one eyebrow. She’d just adjust the truth a little. “Spike took my phone and locked me inside what could only be described as a cubicle, which was opened from the outside. All the girls were kept in the same tiny rooms, where they serviced their clients. They sent me an old man and he got angry because I wasn’t twelve. I mean like red in the face and raving on about him being a judge and how much Spike owed him. Next thing I know, he gripped his chest and dropped dead.” She sighed. “It was no big deal.”

“You think? He was a judge!” Styles reeled back and his Adam’s apple bobbed as he registered what she had said.

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