(Long, Tall Texans, #37) Fearless by Diana Palmer

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

ON THE WIDE FRONT PORCH, Cash and Rodrigo stood facing each other like prizefighters searching for an opening.

“You’d better tell me what’s going on,” Rodrigo said quietly, wary of eavesdroppers.

“The same way you’ve kept me informed?” Cash returned coldly.

Rodrigo’s black eyes narrowed. This man was intelligent, and he wasn’t the sort to accept lies. “I suppose you’ve realized who I am, and why I’m here.”

“Yes.”

“That’s all you’re allowed to know,” he replied. “I’m sorry. This isn’t my operation. I have to do what I’m told.”

“Can you at least tell me if what you’re doing has any connection with Fuentes?”

Rodrigo nodded. “We have a mole,” he said. “He’s feeding us information. I had to go undercover to work out the distribution network, and it’s formidable. I still have one cousin in Fuentes’s employ, although Manuel Lopez had one of my cousins killed for infiltrating some years ago.” He stuck his hands in his pockets. “There’s a shipment of cocaine coming from Peru in about two weeks. We know how it’s coming into the country, and what the destination is.”

“There’s an empty warehouse in Comanche Wells,” Cash said easily, “and it’s not where many people could notice activity at it.”

Rodrigo nodded. “We met there last night.” His eyes grew cold. “Someone in an unmarked squad car almost got me killed by refusing to back off.”

Cash grimaced. “It’s one of my new patrolmen, I’m sorry to say. He’s back from overseas duty, an officer in a front combat unit and he’s forgotten how to take orders. Actually he was special forces, working behind the lines.”

Rodrigo nodded. “We’ve had a few of those sign on with us. They’re valuable in the right position. But they’re a liability when they don’t follow orders.”

“I told him so,” Cash replied. “He won’t do it again.”

“We’re still dancing around the attempted murder here,” Rodrigo said.

“I noticed.”

“What does she have, or know, that’s important enough for someone to send a killer after her?”

Cash weighed the facts and decided that he had to level with the man somehow without giving Glory away. “She has information that could tie Fuentes to a murder. A conviction could have serious consequences on the network. Fuentes doesn’t want her talking to a jury.”

Rodrigo whistled. “Talk about coincidences,” he mused. “And she winds up here, in the middle of a drug sting.”

“Almost assassinated, as well,” Cash replied.

“Fuentes wouldn’t send Marco to do a job like that. Marco hasn’t got what it takes for wet work. No, he was sent here so that he could be used in a dry run. Next time, Fuentes will send a professional assassin and we’ll bury Glory.”

“That’s what I told Glory.”

Rodrigo eyed him. “And the case comes up soon, I gather?”

“Yes,” Cash said. “Certain people talked to the Pendletons and got Glory hired as a kitchen worker. The prosecutor in the case thought she’d be in less danger in a small town, where we could all keep an eye on her while he builds enough evidence to convince a jury that Fuentes is killing informants who rat out his drug deals.

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