Lost&Found by Freya Barker

Author:Freya Barker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Freya Barker

Bree

* * *

“Benedetti.”

I couldn’t settle down after Yanis left, so I’m finally following through on the conversation I had with Bill Evans earlier this week.

We’ve only spoken a few times since Joe Benedetti left the Denver force for Durango, but I make it a point to check in from time to time with all my law enforcement contacts. It makes it much easier when and if a case pops up where we need their support or input.

“Joe. It’s Bree Graves. Sorry to call you at home.”

“You actually caught me in the office. Bree Graves, how are you?”

“I’m good. Burning the candle at both ends again? Don’t you have a wife waiting at home?”

Benedetti lost his first wife not long before he left Denver, but was lucky to find love a second time around.

“Ha. She’s off at some horticultural conference in Salt Lake for the weekend, and I have a desk piled so high I can’t even see the door anymore.”

“Still short-handed?”

“Yeah. One of my officers recently took the detective’s exam, but even with him added, the schedule’s tight. Seems to be an ongoing struggle to keep this department staffed.”

“That’s actually what I was hoping to touch base about,” I capitalize on the opening I finagled. “Do you remember a detective by the name of Bill Evans from your time in Denver?”

“Evans? Wasn’t he in Littleton? Or Englewood?”

“Littleton,” I confirm. “It’s possible he’s looking. Ran into a bit of a fishy situation.”

“Fishy, how?”

I spend the next half hour filling Benedetti in on what happened to me in Denver. I brush off his concern and share what I know about the situation Evans finds himself in.

“I haven’t personally spoken to him since Wednesday, but I know he’s not feeling too comfortable where he is now. He spoke with my boss.”

“Don’t blame him,” Benedetti agrees and then falls silent.

I decide to wait him out, give him a chance to process. It doesn’t take long.

“Got his personal number?”

Quickly putting him on speaker I find Evan’s name in my contacts and message it to Joe.

“Incoming. What are you thinking?”

“I’m thinking I may have a talk with him. I’d like to know where his head’s at. I’ve dealt with most of the top brass in the Denver area. On both sides of the law,” he clarifies. “Might be able to offer some insight, but I also have good connections with the local feds here. You never know when that may come in handy.”

“I appreciate it, Joe. Especially given how busy you already are.”

“Hey, if it nets me another detective, I’m gonna owe you one.”

A seriously decent guy. Glad to know he hasn’t lost his sense of justice, even in a job I know is rife with politics.

“That happens you can buy me dinner if I’m ever in town.”

“Deal. I’ll hold off ‘til tomorrow before I give him a call, in case you wanna give him the heads-up.”

“Probably not a bad idea.”

As soon as I get off the phone with him, I shoot Bill a text rather than call him.

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