The Leah Ryan Thrillers Box Set: Three Chiller Thrillers (Repo Chick Blues #1, Finding Chloe #2, Dirty Business #3) (Leah Ryan Thrillers Box Set, Books 1-3) by Tracy Sharp

Author:Tracy Sharp [Sharp, Tracy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-12-24T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

“I feel like I wanna go walk through a car wash now.” Jack shuddered.

“Yeah, amazing what passes for love for some people.”

My cell rang. I looked at the caller ID but didn’t recognize the number.

“Hello?”

“Leah, it’s Phil.”

Holy shit. I’d forgotten all about him. “Phil. How ya doing?”

“I haven’t heard from you. Have you found out anything about where Chloe might be?”

I cringed. Now I had to tell him that it looked like his girlfriend is dead. “Where are you? I have some information I need to share with you.”

He gave me the name of a coffee shop downtown.

“I’ll be there in fifteen minutes.”

I closed my cell and looked at Jackson. “Shit.”

“The old boyfriend?”

“Yeah. As in the guy who came to me for help in finding Chloe in the first place. Jesus. How could I forget about him?”

“You’ve had a lot on your plate, Kicks. It’s understandable.”

“I have to meet him downtown. You coming?”

“You want me to?”

I nodded. “Yeah. Getting used to having you around.”

“It’s wise having me around. It’ll save you from calling me the next time you’re getting your ass kicked by some hired thug.”

“Hey! You didn’t see him. He was not in good shape when he left me.”

“Yeah, yeah. You want me to drive?”

My shoulder ached something fierce, but I wasn’t about to give in to it. “I can drive.”

“Jesus.” He shook his head. “You don’t have to prove anything to me, Kicks. I know you’re tough.”

“Yeah, I am. And don’t you forget it.” I gave him a playful punch in the shoulder as we climbed back into the Jeep.

“Hey! Don’t start something you can’t finish.”

“Oh, I can finish. I learned from the best.”

He grinned. “Yes, you did. And don’t you forget it.”

The coffee shop sat nestled between a smoke shop and a strip club. It seemed there were a lot of those in this town. With the sunshine at our backs when we entered the diner it was hard to see Phil in the dull yellow light of the place. But when my eyes adjusted I made him out in the back of the room, surrounded by a cloud of smoke swirling around him. The guy had kicked heroin. I couldn’t begrudge him his cigarettes.

The walls were a dark yellow, and I had no doubt they’d been white at one point. Like so many other businesses sitting at or in the fringes of the underbelly of the city, the owner of this joint didn’t give a fat rat’s ass about the no smoking law. And if I was honest, I knew that smoking was the least of the illegal activities that went on in the place.

I introduced Jack to Phil and we took our seats at the small table. Phil’s knee jerked up and down and there were dark rings under his eyes. Was somebody after him like they were after me? He had come to me, after all, to find Chloe. It was possible he was asking questions on his own around town.

“You all right?” I asked him.

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