Save Me From The Dark by Cynthia Eden

Author:Cynthia Eden [Eden, Cynthia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

“Stop,” Chloe said and her voice was smooth and clipped and slightly more British than normal. Her accent always became a little more pronounced when she was angry.

Joel had no doubt that she was highly furious at that particular moment.

He stood less than a foot away from King, and the jerk had the nerve to smirk at him.

“Not going to let her tell you what to do, are you?” King taunted. “Go ahead, take that swing.” His words were low. Barely carrying to Joel’s ears. “But be aware that I swing back, hard.”

Cedric pushed between them. “This is a hospital. Get your control in place.” He glared at Joel. “I do not need this from you right now.” Then his head turned to King. “Though I expect nothing more from you.”

“Low expectations. The story of my life,” King tossed back carelessly.

“I have higher expectations,” Chloe informed him as she came back toward their group. Joel couldn’t help it. He drank her in even though her focus seemed entirely on King. “So how about you play nicely and cooperate with the cops?” Chloe asked/advised him. “Go down to the station like we talked about on the ride here. Get clear. Give them your alibi. Though I am sure the mayor will have plenty to say about it.”

Wait…what? The mayor?

“I wasn’t involved in the bombing. I was…involved with someone else at the time,” he said smoothly.

“The mayor’s wife? Are you trying to hint you were involved with Jolene?” Cedric squeezed his eyes shut. “Does everything have to be a clusterfuck with you?”

“Kingston is the one who found us evidence tying Kelly Addams to the crime,” Chloe informed them crisply. “Kelly Addams—”

“Is dead,” Joel finished. He wanted Chloe to look at him. Why wouldn’t she look at him? “I strongly suspect that when an autopsy is performed, we’ll find out that she was suffocated. So Cedric, make sure your team is bagging and tagging all the pillows and sheets in that room.”

Cedric swore.

“You’ll want to make sure Ruben takes a look at her eyes.” That was what had tipped him off when he’d been with her. He’d taken a moment to lift up one eyelid to see the tell-tale red and purplish splotches that had already appeared on her eye. “It would have been easy enough for someone in scrubs and a face mask to just waltz right into her room and get the job done.” The words felt so cold. “She was on morphine so she was probably knocked out the whole time. Wouldn’t have put up any fight.”

Cedric was already shouting orders to his men.

Chloe just nodded briskly and turned away.

She was leaving. Again.

King was back to smirking, even though Cedric was now telling the guy he would be getting his ass hauled down to the station. Joel moved to the right so he could see Chloe and—

“Hi, there.” King blocked his path. “Just so you know, I don’t like you any longer.”

“Totally wrecks my heart,” Joel growled back. “How will I sleep at night?”

“Stop staring after her like a lost puppy.

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