Diagnosis by Felice Stevens

Author:Felice Stevens
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Mystery, M/M
Publisher: Felice Stevens
Published: 2019-11-26T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Even though he knew it was a long shot, Paul looked for Rob at his desk when he walked into the station that morning. He settled into his chair, and while waiting for his computer to boot up, he pulled out his phone and sent him a text.

How’s it going?

Better. Annabel came home last night.

Good. Is she feeling better?

His phone rang.

“This is stupid,” Rob said, and Paul grinned at the familiar grouchy morning behavior of his best friend and partner. “Why am I texting you when we can talk? I’m not a teenager.”

“Damn right you’re not.”

“Don’t mess with me before I’ve had my coffee, Paulie. Anyway, she’s resting and feeling better. The kids are happy she’s home. And both my mother and mother-in-law are here.” Rob’s voice dropped. “I’m going crazy. I need to get back to work, but I gotta be here, you know?”

Paul couldn’t hide his smile. “I know. You’ll come when you can. As long as she’s okay.”

“Yeah. She’s an amazing woman. I swear she’s stronger than me. We had a long talk last night and said everything we were afraid to tell each other, and we both agreed, no more kids. She’s happy with how we are and so am I.”

“So I’m stuck with you now, is that what you’re trying to tell me?”

“Like fucking superglue, buddy. I think she’s going back to work next week, but she told me if she keeps feeling as good as she is now, she’s ready to get rid of me as early as tomorrow.”

“God knows I need you here.”

“Oh yeah? Tell me what you’ve got.”

Paul briefed Rob on everything that happened, ending with the bizarre drug arrest of Chase Ulrich. He’d come in to discover that, as expected, the young man had been bailed out by his mother.

“Huh,” Rob said, and Paul could hear the wheels turning in his partner’s head. He needed this tossing of ideas back and forth; it was one of the reasons he missed Rob. Friendship first, but they also worked so well together.

“What’re you thinking?”

“I’m thinking Sonny Boy had a nice gig going. Maybe he was stealing daddy’s prescriptions for himself and to sell. When Ulrich found out, they had a row, and the kid clunked him on the head. Fit of anger. Those drugs’ll do it.”

“Yeah, and almost seems more likely than Shane, our playboy blackmailer. He had no reason to want to kill Ulrich, especially if Ulrich was paying him off. That could go on for years.”

“True, but if he found out his rich sucker was done with him and moving on, he might’ve gotten angry enough to kill him as well. Sort of like, ‘If I can’t have you, no one else will either.’ ”

“You’ve got a point there.”

“So what’re you going to do first? Pay a visit to the bad boy? Catherine Ulrich is going to put you on her shit list, man, if you start questioning her baby boy. She’s a tiger when it comes to him.”

Paul grimaced. “Yeah, I’ve noticed.

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