Vigilante Investigator Series Box Set by Eden Sharp

Author:Eden Sharp [Sharp, Eden]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Maximum City Publishing
Published: 2019-05-21T22:00:00+00:00

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Things were going well enough until we hit Brannan. The traffic heading east had slowed to almost a standstill before picking up again. The reason soon became clear. This wasn’t due to the usual mass of vehicles bunching between junctions and signals. Up ahead, cops from San Francisco Police Department’s Traffic Unit were conducting a sobriety checkpoint or BOLO or similar.

Great. This was all I needed. One look at Chrissie and the next thing would be a search of the car and a narcotics seizure. I tried to keep up with the legal position for any such circumstances in my interactions with her that might leave me compromised and knew that the possession of heroin for personal use was a misdemeanor but one which still amounted to up to a year in county jail and up to a twenty-thousand-dollar fine. This was the case for most defendants at least, but I was unsure if she’d had any recent busts I didn’t know about.

A second misdemeanor of being under the influence of heroin also carried the same penalty for jail time and up to a thousand-dollar fine. Worse though might be to come. In the event of her having a larger amount than I suspected or two or more separate baggies we would be looking at a felony charge. That included me as well as her. The transportation for sale of heroin meant three to nine years in jail along with the twenty-thousand-dollar fine.

I checked to my right. Chrissie was one hot mess in a zoned-out stupor. I shook her shoulder but didn’t get a response. We moved forward a car’s length. I unclipped my belt, leaned right over her to grab both shoulders and shook her violently. She opened her eyes a little.

‘We’re gonna be hitting a traffic stop. You’ve got heroin in your bag, right?’

She smiled and nodded out on me again. Her bag was wedged between her right-hand side and the passenger door. I grabbed at it. Despite her being a world away she had a hand on it and clenched the dirty fabric tight, cursing something under her breath.

‘Chrissie.’

‘Uh?’

‘Put your bag under the seat.’

I didn’t even want to look inside. Who knew what else she might have in there? She could be carrying any amount of other substances to bring her up or chill her out or whatever. A gap had opened up ahead of me again and we were only about fifty yards out from the stop with the cops staring down the line. I rolled the car forward slowly and tried wrestling the bag out of her hand, but she wouldn’t let go. Opening the car door and ditching anything out wasn’t going to fly. We’d be spotted for sure.

‘Cops,’ I shouted.

That got her attention.

‘Hide your stuff under the seat.’

She did as she was told. The line seemed to be moving more quickly. Only twenty yards to go. I leaned over and opened up the glove box and grabbed a sunglasses case.

‘Put these on and try and stay awake.

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