LEIF (Blake Security Book 3) by Celina McKane Read Free Book Online

vehicle he was driving ran over an IED. The truck exploded with Leif and two other men inside. They all died. 
    The tears ran freely down my face as I wondered if he knew he was going to die. I wondered if there was any way he was looking down right now and knew he had one more son, way out in Louisiana. I searched the file for a phone number for his “wife.” An address was all there was. I put that in my phone and turned the page again. There was a copy of the official letter from the army notifying Leif’s family he was dead. I felt even sicker. I tossed the file toward the coffee table and missed. I didn’t care when it hit the floor, it could stay there. I sobbed until I finally fell asleep, and then I dreamt of the imposter Leif. Damn him!

CHAPTER SIX
    NEW ORLEANS
    PRESENT DAY
    LEIF
     
     
                  “What the hell just happened in there?” Blake had me inside, away from the family. His dark gray eyes were boring into me.
                  “Do you remember the woman I came here to stalk?”
                  He snorted. “You’re kidding? Please tell me you’re kidding? The daughter? Jesus, Leif! This is my most lucrative client at the moment. The mayoral staff specifically requested Ryder for their detail, Abrahem is visiting his parents in Philadelphia, and Tyler is deep undercover in that motorcycle gang on the runaway case. I need you on this, Leif! Damn it!”
                  I waited for him to finish, and then I said, “I’m sorry Blake. I’m not sure what else to say.”
                  “Can you do this job…professionally?”
                  “I believe I can, yes.”
                  He sighed. “Then I have to find a way to convince them of that because I can’t do it alone. The judge is being threatened by the leader of a gang, Jaime Guzman. The judge sentenced this man’s girlfriend to twenty-five years to life on a murder that the police are sure she was coerced into. We are sure Guzman did the coercing. He’s not subtle. He thinks that he is untouchable. The prosecutor was going after his girlfriend with both barrels until one night the man’s son was shot as he sat outside on their front porch.”
    “Jesus, did they kill a kid?”
    “No, but they did wound a ten year old. It was a warning, and the prosecutor heard it loud and clear. Not only did he recuse himself, he quit his job altogether.” The prosecutor that replaced him didn’t have any family, but the police kept him under watch still. The judge tried to refuse police protection during the trial, but then his dog was killed, and he knew that he had to do something to protect his family. That’s where we come in.”
    “They killed his dog?”
    “Used a knife on the poor thing. It was messy and horrifying.”
    I shuddered and asked, “The police aren’t still watching them?”
    “No. They watched over him and his family until the trial ended and his girlfriend was sentenced, but they didn’t have the resources to keep doing it forever. There’s a manhunt going on for Guzman right now, and I heard last night that they think a new serial killer might be working the area so the department is swamped. Jaime Guzman is a bad dude—and I’m sure that he and his guys wouldn’t hesitate to do the same thing to one of these people as they did to the dog…so until he’s caught, we can’t let them out of our sight. I was going to put you on the daughter and her kid, but maybe they’ll go for this if I put you on the judge and I take the daughter. She’s on vacation right now—and she had originally agreed to stay here…before you walked in and pissed her off.”
                  “What about her husband…or boyfriend?”
    Blake looked confused and said, “Unless you know something that I don’t, she’s single.”
    I felt that stupid glimmer of hope again. I tamped it down and said, “Oh, is she a lawyer