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"No," she whispered "What do I say now?"

Chapter 17

Round two, Jake gluht as he pulled away from Alicia and held her hand so she didn’t look ready to collapse under pressure before Detective Hanover returned to her apartrill her further When the detective and his partner returned to the interrogation, the other detective looked al Alicia hadn’t had time to prepare what she’d say, nor had Jake had time to counsel her

Tom and Peter attempted to look unconcerned, but Jake could tell both orried She’d been at ato say now? Jake was teet one of their lawyers involved before this went any further, but the problem was that the murder had taken place in Denver They needed a wolf lawyer there to defend her, if that’s what it took But they didn’t know any olf packs in the city, since the packs usually avoided er cities and stayed closer to houre she’d like it that he hadn’t been interested in her beyond a couple of dates but now he’d taken up with Alicia and wanted Sherry to defend her

"So, Miss Greiston, do you want to tell ht of July 15 when you visited Ferdinand Massaro at his condo?"

"He told me to meet him at his place That he had infore underneath my hotel-room door When I went to his place, no one answered the door I rang the doorbell several times, but still no answer I didn’t have his phone nuured he’d left Or ht have"

"But you say he had left a ht inforht ht the piece of paper with me"

"Do you still have it?"

She shook her head "I tossed it out"

"So you left the place in the ot a taxi and returned to where I’d parked et to your car?"

"I was being cautious in case any of Mario’sme"

"Hmm," Detective Hanover said

Jake knew she hadn’t parked her car and taken a taxi frorabbed her at the other location, but he couldn’t tell if the detective knew that or not He assumed the detective would make a note to check out the cab records to verify her clai of the sort

"And then?" The detective looked up froain to track down Constantino and Danny Massaro When I finally found where they were, I notified the police and they picked them up"

Detective Hanover studied her for a moment, then quietly said, "But they didn’t Pick them up"

Her mouth dropped open, then she snapped it shut

"They’re free still?" Jake asked, rubbing her hand and having assumed that was the case

"Yes The police arrived too late But if you’re a bounty hunter who’s supposed to be bringing them in, why turn their location over to the police?" Detective Hanover asked Alicia

"I figured they were too dangerous for me to try and arrest"

"Because you had witnessed Ferdinand Massaro’s murder"

Jake could hear Alicia’s rapid heartbeat He felt her cla to et her the hell out of this night further stress or trouble for her

"Murdered?" she asked, her voice hollow, and despite knowing Ferdinand had been h that she hadn’t already had a clue "The… the night I went to see him?"

Genuine tears filled her eyes Jake knew they weren’t faked She must have been terrified to see what she had in the condo, further horrified that she could have ended up like Ferdinand<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>