No Witness But the Moon by Suzanne Chazin

Author:Suzanne Chazin [Chazin, Suzanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2016-08-24T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

Rage coursed through Vega’s veins. The sort of rage he’d never known his entire life, not even when Wendy told him she was pregnant with another man’s twins. It bypassed all logic and reason. It clawed at his core, snarling and feral, ready to leap out at the son of a bitch who’d threatened his daughter.

I will kill the hijo de puta who slashed my little girl’s tires. I will bash his brains in. I don’t care if they send me to jail. I’m going anyway.

How was it possible that he’d killed a man last night and felt only guilt and regret? And now, not twenty-four hours later, he felt only desire to do the same thing?

You want a killer cop? Bicho es! I’ll give you a killer cop!

He could barely keep his mind on the road as he drove to the community college campus. He tailgated in the left lane, driving too fast, taking the turns too quickly, whipping in and out of traffic like he had some sort of death wish for himself and anyone who came into contact with him. I’m toxic. Stay away from me, cabrones. The world hates me and I hate the world! If he could find a bumper sticker to proclaim it, he would.

Up until this moment in his life, he’d always tried to find the essential goodness in people. And sure, with some, you had to paw through a pile of manure to uncover it. But he never quit looking. He wanted to help people. He wanted to keep them safe. He wanted to guide them through their time of crisis to that moment when things would get better. He believed that even when they lied to him or cursed at him or took a swing at him that it was only the uniform or his position of authority that they were angry at. They were acting out of impulse. It wasn’t personal. When everyone calmed down, they would see that. Things would improve.

He wasn’t sure he could believe that anymore. Never had humanity looked darker or more threatening to him than in these last twenty-four hours. Never had he felt so vulnerable and alone.

Do whatever you want to me! he felt like screaming. But spare the people I love! He was a man with a bull’s-eye on his back. Everyone he cared about was likely to become collateral damage.

Valley Community College was county police jurisdiction. His jurisdiction—if he weren’t on administrative leave. He managed to keep himself together long enough to ask his department to send over two officers to file a formal report. He didn’t want this swept under the rug by campus security.

He tried to force himself to calm down enough so that he didn’t look like a raging lunatic when he pulled up to the campus security building. It was a portable trailer that looked like a giant Twinkie with a handicap accessible ramp in front and two flowerpots that seemed to be used mostly for cigarette butts.

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