(Long, Tall Texans, #27) Renegade by Diana Palmer

Author:Diana Palmer [Palmer, Diana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

TIPPY FACED THE POLICE the next morning. She held Cash's hand while she gave them a

statement. It was the first step to recovery, she told herself. Just one more little obstacle

to get through. They took photographs as well, with a digital camera, for evidence of

the treatment she'd received at Stanton's hands.

Cash sat with her the whole time, going through endless cups of coffee. It was a

straightforward procedure, but it took longer than he'd expected. He went with the

investigators back to their precinct to write out a statement of his own. He couldn't tell

the whole truth, but he told as much as he felt comfortable with.

"What about Tippy's mother?" he asked the lead investigator after they'd talked

for a few minutes.

"She said her mother was behind the kidnapping, in order to get money from her,"

the older man said.

'That's right. She's a drug addict."

The investigator's pale eyes shimmered with anger. "You'd

be amazed how many we get here, most involved in burglaries or holdups or murders.

We had a guy last week, eighteen, got high on acid and beat his grandmother to death.

Never remembered doing anything, but he'll go to prison for life if they convict him."

"I know," Cash replied. "I'm in law enforcement myself. I've spent the last few

months rooting out drug money. You probably know where it comes from."

"Yeah," the other man nodded. "From respectable citizens who want to make a lot

of easy money and don't care how."

"Bingo."

"I've always thought I'd like to work in a small town," the

detective mused. "Is the money good?" Cash chuckled. "If you like beer. It won't get

you champagne." The older man's eyes twinkled. "I hate champagne." "Then you

might want to try it. You can do a lot of good on

a small scale."

There was a brief pause. "I heard some things about you from my lieutenant. He

was in covert ops in the Gulf War."

Cash's eyebrows lifted. "Was he really?"

"He's got a nephew named Peter Stone. Lives in Brooklyn."

Cash gave him a wry look. "My, my, what a small world we live in." He grinned.

The lieutenant grinned back.

HE GOT A CAB BACK to the hospital. Tippy was sleeping again when he went into her

room and sat by the bed. He was anxious about her. The interview must have been

as much an ordeal for her as the wounds had been when she first got them. It was

painful and she had a long way to go before she would recover from her injuries, to

say nothing of the emotional scars

that had been added to the ones she already carried. He hated the guilt. It was his

fault. His fault...!

"Why...do you look like that?" she asked drowsily.

"Like what?" he asked.

Her lovely green eyes opened as wide as she could get them to. He was so

handsome. She loved looking at him. She knew that he only felt guilty because he'd let

her down, but it felt like heaven to have him this close and concerned about her.

"You look... lost."

He leaned forward. "I can't get away from my past," he said after a minute.

"Everywhere I go, people know about me.

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