Harlequin Intrigue April 2015 - Box Set 1 of 2: Reining in Justice\Kansas City Cover-Up\Agent Undercover by Delores Fossen

Author:Delores Fossen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Harlequin Intrigue
Publisher: Harlequin

Chapter Nine

Gabe stood in the corner of the small interview room, watching Detective Sawyer Kincaid and Olivia ask questions of Ron Kober’s wife, Elaine, and her attorney.

Well, mostly he watched Olivia. He’d sat through their staff meeting this morning, listening to reports about ballistics saying the gun they’d found at the warehouse was the right caliber to be the weapon used in Dani’s murder, but that damage done to the barrel itself made it difficult to match the actual bullets. Further tests would have to be run to find anything conclusive. The KCFD’s preliminary report on the fire indicated arson—no surprise there—but it was too soon to have a chemical analysis on the accelerant used, much less a lead on its source.

The DNA lab had even gotten an ID on the man who’d cut Gabe in the stairwell of Kober’s building. Stephen March was a repeat offender with a long list of petty crimes, mostly drug related. March had been brought in for questioning on another murder a few years back, but was quickly dismissed as a suspect because of an airtight alibi—he was in a lockdown room at a rehab clinic. Maybe the guy had a knack for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Max Krolikowski and Trent Dixon, his partner, would work on tracking down Stephen March. They’d find out if March had witnessed anything at the building he’d broken into earlier in the week.

The Cold Case Squad’s progress on finding Dani’s killer was painstakingly slow—a rehash of facts he knew, with discussions on a few more details that would have to be explored and double-checked before a suspect could be brought in for questioning, much less arrested. A week ago, Gabe would have been typing up his next column about the square wheels of justice being stuck in a tar pit, and that victims and perpetrators alike might be dead by the time the department found their answers.

But today, watching Olivia in action, seeing the wheels of memory and intelligence in those intriguing eyes turning several steps ahead of the others at the table, Gabe found himself looking at KCPD a little differently. Maybe even with a seed of hope taking root in the cold morass of his cynical heart.

The other detectives and information tech at the meeting spoke and moved, but they were white noise and blurs of shape and color that sometimes blocked Gabe’s view of the lady cop with the sleek curves and short, soft hair. Even now, Detective Kincaid, a soft-spoken giant of a man, the taciturn attorney and the weepy histrionics of Ron Kober’s widow were a mere background to Gabe’s study of Olivia.

Maybe if he hadn’t kissed her. Maybe if he hadn’t felt the warmth of her supple skin or heard those tremulous gasps of surprise and pleasure each time he touched her. Maybe if she didn’t have that red mark on her cheek or that black sling over her arm which were direct results of the investigative path he’d set her on.

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