Love After Darkness by Melanie Kingsley EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author:Melanie Kingsley
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SOME PEOPLE STICK WITH YOU. They burrow so deep inside that
you have no choice but to integrate them. Make them a part of you.
That was Layla Sinclair. My old partner’s life complemented mine and
made me a better cop. Her death left me carved out and hollow.
I lean back in the passenger seat of the cruiser, listening to some bullshit
Britney Spears because music is always the driver’s choice. That doesn’t
change, at least. Only the song. Sometimes life just flips on you, though.
The coin twists faster than you can imagine, and nothing is the same.
“Cheer up!” the driver tells me in bubblegum pink tones. “Was it the
coffee, Dev? Did I not get the order right again? You’ve got to tell me!”
Detective Naomi Ellison slaps herself on the forehead hard enough that her
head hits the back of the seat, and the car takes a sharp jerk to the left. “I’m
sorry.”
“Watch the road,” I tell her with a grimace. “And it’s not the coffee,
Detective Ellison.”
She glances sideways at me, and I hear her humming along to the
chorus. Hit me baby one more time. “What is it, then? You’ve been so quiet.
Did I do something wrong? I’m really trying hard to find my stride with the
department, with you, but it’s been a little hard. I admit it.”
I fight the urge to roll my eyes. “Stop talking. Focus on the details of the
case.”
Another case, another crime, another bloody murder for me to solve.
As far as partners go, Naomi is not the worst I’ve ever had. But she’s
also not the best. And right now, on our way to a crime scene, I’d rather not
talk to her. Especially not when Naomi has a serious issue buttoning her
fucking lips. I’ve never had to struggle against pistol-whipping someone
until now, right this minute, especially since Britney has been playing
nonstop for the entirety of the fifteen-minute ride. With traffic.
“And take a right here.” I point at the angled street sign, tilting toward
the grubby sidewalk littered with autumn leaves because someone must
have hit it. “Ellison, a right!”
She’s so focused on whatever problem she’s made up in her head that
she nearly misses the turn and ends up cutting off someone trying to turn
from the opposite direction. The angry old woman behind the other wheel
flips Naomi the bird.
My stomach dips down to my damn toes, and the fingers bite into the
oh-shit bar above the door. “Christ, you’re going to kill us before we get
there,” I mutter. “Focus, please.”
Naomi stares straight ahead with a worried expression, and her large
front teeth firmly embedded along her bottom lip. “I’m sorry.”
I say nothing else.
Britney and the constant hum of tires slicking over decayed leaves on
wet asphalt are white noise as I line up the details of the case. Twenty-oneyear-old Hispanic male, bludgeoned, left in front of a vape shop, missing
his shoes. Preliminary evidence suggests this case is connected with the
deaths of two other young men.
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