Zack by Cheyenne McCray

Author:Cheyenne McCray
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781956103113
Publisher: Cheyenne McCray LLC

CHAPTER 16

Tuesday, the afternoon following the too-brief intimate moment with Sky, Zack stood in his group supervisor’s office. Zack barely held back a scowl as Denning went on one of his rampages.

Denning spit his chaw into the garbage can beside his desk before meeting Zack’s gaze again. Denning’s brown eyes were narrowed and his wiry, athletic body rigid.

He braced one hand on his desk and the other on his belt as he continued, “So tell me, why haven’t you figured out how the smugglers are getting the cattle across the line?”

Zack sucked his breath in through his teeth and did his best to keep from telling Denning to fuck off and just let him do his job.

Instead, Zack told Denning, “You read my reports. Like I suspected, packaged American beef is appearing in southern Mexico, and we’re working on finding out how the rustlers are smuggling it over the line,” he said. “Torres and I are meeting with an informant Agent Travers is hooking us up with. I’ll have more after we have a little conversation with him.”

“You damn well better.” Denning brushed Zack off with a wave of his hand. “Now get your ass out there and I want to see some damned results.”

Zack didn’t bother to answer as he turned and headed out of the supervisor’s office into the mass of cubicles, and past several other offices. He nodded to the Assistant Special Agent in Charge and wondered how the ASAC put up with Denning’s bullshit.

As Zack walked up to his truck and unlocked the vehicle, he drew out his mobile phone. He called the assisted-living center his mom lived in, and got ahold of Theresa, Molly’s caregiver.

“How’s my mother?” Zack asked Theresa as he opened the door and climbed into his truck. “Is it a good day to stop by and see her?”

“Her relapse is lasting longer than any other since she’s come to the center.” Theresa sighed and Zack’s gut sank as he thought about what his mother was going through. “I don’t think she’s up to visitors.”

Zack shut the door of his Silverado, his personal vehicle, and leaned back against the leather seat. “She still thinks my father is alive and he’s after her?”

“Yes,” Theresa said. “She’s pretty much inconsolable.”

Zack clenched his fist on his thigh. Damn his father, the bastard who’d done this to his mother. The son of a bitch who’d been his stepfather had compounded her condition. “Are you sure it wouldn’t help if I stop by?”

“She wouldn’t recognize you, honey.” Theresa’s voice held the quiet comfort of a caregiver skilled in her profession. “Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day for her.”

“Yeah. All right.” Zack looked up at the ceiling of his truck. “I’ll call then,” he said before he told Theresa good-bye.

Zack didn’t start the truck. Instead he called Cabe.

“Damn,” Cabe said when Zack let him know how their mother was doing and that she believed their father was trying to kill her again. “That bastard.”

“Even after he’s dead he’s hurting her.

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