Expired Game: Last Chance County, #5 by Lisa Phillips

Author:Lisa Phillips
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9798885520454
Publisher: Two Dogs Publishing, LLC.

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Firefighters still hung out at the house when they pulled up the driveway. Ted gathered his things from between his feet as Dean parked his SUV. They’d both been pretty quiet the drive over. Now that they were faced with the damage those two men had done, Ted figured the last thing they needed was to talk about what they might be about to do.

His sense of denial was overblown. Ted already knew that he could pretty much convince himself red was blue, and blue was red if he wanted to. Reality didn’t need to factor into it. And it wasn’t the same as burying his head in the sand.

Now he was double avoiding it, letting his brain mull over how it worked rather than thinking about what was going on around him.

“Need help?”

Ted shook his head. He looped the backpack strap over his good arm and pulled the door handle. Straightening out of the car hurt, but he ignored the aches and bruises all over his body. So far they hadn’t lost one of the good guys. He would like it to stay that way, which meant Ted needed to be on his A game. Not down for the count because of a few injuries.

A man in dark gray slacks and a white shirt strode around from the barn. The insignia and bars on his shoulders said who he was as much as his lightly tanned features and perfectly styled hair. Authority was like a mantle he wore along with his tax bracket.

Dean held his hand out. “Chief Hilden.”

Ted realized then he hadn’t been exactly right. Dean’s sense of his own capabilities should be the same. He should wear authority as the fire chief did, commanding respect wherever he went.

But he didn’t.

Because Dean was naturally far more understated than Steven Hilden? Or because Hilden needed the people around him to recognize his position in the community? This man was one of the founders in that photo from Vietnam. Here when the town of Last Chance first started.

A contender for the position of West.

“Ted.”

He tried to smile and hoped Hilden figured he was just having a bad day. “Hilden.” He wasn’t going to call the man “Chief” since he already had a chief—Conroy. Ted motioned his chin in the direction of the barn. “How’s it look back there?”

Hilden’s tidy eyebrows rose. “Some interesting stuff your friends have in that barn.”

It was on the tip of Ted’s tongue to ask if they’d touched anything. As it was, Zander wouldn’t be super pleased when he got home from this latest mission and discovered his team’s training center was nothing but ash.

Dean said, “We appreciate you getting it under control.”

They made small talk about paperwork and insurance, things to look out for so they didn’t have further problems. Ted mostly tuned it out.

Both he and Dean had agreed at the office that calling their father and asking for a meet, one where their dad revealed the identity of the person who was West, was the best and quickest way to end the threat.

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