Forever Burn by Adrian J. Smith

Author:Adrian J. Smith
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: lesbians, firefighters
Publisher: Supposed Crimes, LLC

Chapter Ten

The door that had been shut for the better part of the day flung open and smashed against the wall without warning. Max was startled out of the Chief’s chair and stood to face whatever onslaught was coming his way.

“Why the hell didn’t you tell me?” Heath’s face was red with rage, his chest puffed with air and his body stiff as a board.

Max chose his words carefully. “I don’t know what you are talking about, but if what you’re asking about is what I suspect it is, then I honestly had no idea.”

“I doubt that.”

Heath scowled, but at least his demeanor had changed slightly. There was less tension in his shoulders and the blood vessel in his neck was no longer popping out.

“How the hell could you not have known? You practically live with both of them!”

Max shook his head and glanced to the ground. He said, “I don’t know. James is my best friend, and I had no idea. Two years of it, almost? You’d think she would have told me.”

He was sitting back in the chair that his boss normally occupied, but she was missing. She had been missing for at least two days, confirmed. Five days by Max’s count. His hands ran through his short locks as he tried to let his mind wrap around the fact that they were gone without a trace. The idea that he might never see James’ smiling face again, that he might never hear his boss laugh at one of the recruits’ mistakes, that the little girl Lily might never get the chance to grow up was too much to focus on for long. When Max looked up at Heath again, everything had changed. The anger was gone and replaced with trepidation and a deep worry.

“Have you heard anything?”

Heath shook his head. “Have you?”

“From who? You’re supposed to keep me in the loop, and you’re the one that’s supposed to know more than I do.”

The police officer sat in the wooden chair usually occupied by James and let his body go lax. “I don’t know anything more than you do, Max. It’s an ongoing investigation, and it’s been handed off to detectives. It has a high priority because it’s James and Addy and the kid, but they haven’t found anything.”

He started to pick at his already incredibly short nails.

“Well, how did they even get kidnapped? Those two aren’t exactly lazy, they’re in amazing shape. For someone to take both of them down…”

He didn’t want to think about what might have happened, but it was a question that he needed to ask.

Heath nodded. “The milk was drugged, as well as all the juice and basically anything liquid in the fridge and cupboards with a removable lid. Whoever did this wanted to take them, and they weren’t going to wait around for it to happen.”

“So we’re talking a planned, professional deal here. Not something that was in the moment?”

When Heath nodded in agreement, Max’s mind turned to the interesting and annoying man that he had met.

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