Seeing Love: Saints Protection & Investigations by Maryann Jordan Read Free Book Online

companies, all of which he owned.
    Bart’s grandmother was being scammed and he worked with his cousin and her fiancé, Jude, to catch the fuckin’ swindler.
    His mind continued to roll through Faith’s explanation. She gets feelings. She gets images and then draws them. What a crock of shit! She visits crime scenes for her images and then plays on the emotions of poor, unsuspecting people. I wonder how much she gets paid? He thought back to when he broke into Nastelli’s expensive condo when looking for evidence. I’ll bet she lives grand also!
    He finally found himself back in his neighborhood, determined his first order of business was to shut Miss Faith down. Faith! Jesus, she’s even given herself a name that would fit her scam! As soon as he hit his driveway, he called Jack.
    “Yeah,” Jack answered.
    “Bro, you’re not going to believe what I found out about that profiler Krustas hired. She’s a fuckin’ phony. Claims to be a psychic! Says she gets feelings and images that she draws. Hell, she visits crime scenes to get her visions!”
    Bart was met with silence on the other end. “Jack? You still there?”
    “I’m here.”
    “Okay, man,” Bart said. “You don’t seem too outraged by this.”
    He heard a deep sigh from his boss, before Jack said, “Look, I appreciate this is hard for you to swallow, especially in light of what happened last summer. Did she actually say she was psychic? Did she use that word?”
    Bart thought for a second before answering honestly. “No, but what the fuck does it matter what she calls herself? She’s still scamming people and I’m not gonna work with her. If Krustas wants to throw his money at a fake that’s his business, but she’s not getting me to do her investigating just so she can draw some bogus picture that has everyone claiming she did anything.” By this time, he was virtually yelling and growing more frustrated that Jack did not share his indignation. “Okay, Jack, you want to tell me what the hell is going on?”
    “All I know is that when Krustas called to ask for our help, he also said he had asked someone to assist. He used to know her grandmother and said the women in this family have the ability to see things. I know you don’t believe and you don’t have to, but Krustas has hired her and you have to, at least, pretend to work with her.”
    “You have got to be kidding?” Bart said, leaning back heavily against his truck headrest. “I do all the work and she gets to claim the glory of solving the case by psychic means.”
    “Since when do we care who gets the glory?” Jack challenged him. Not hearing an answer from Bart, he continued. “We solve cases and who the fuck gets the glory doesn’t matter. FBI. CIA. DEA. Hell, the local police department.”
    “I hear you, but I’m still telling Krustas what he’s gotten himself into.”
    Jack chuckled. “Go ahead, but I think you’ll be surprised.”
    “Boss, I gotta tell you, this whole conversation is shocking the shit outta me,” Bart confessed.
    “I’m not telling you to believe her. I am telling you that you have to work with her because, right now, that’s what our client wants. But you also have to really work with her and not against her. You prove she’s a phony in the meantime…that’s fine. But your job is to assist Ivan Krustas, not discredit Ms. Romani. Got that?”
    “Yes, sir,” Bart answered, frustration burning in him.
    “Now what else do you have for me?”
    “I need you to check out Sarah Dukakas. She’s Ivan’s housekeeper and was alone with Erik that night. They say she’s been with the family for years, including her parents. I figure Luke can dig up her finances. Also, a man named Roger Montague. Erik’s mom was out with him at a charity event that night.”
    “What about Sergio?”
    “Yeah, I was going to get to him. I got a bad feeling that, even from prison, he’s involved somehow. Ivan didn’t want to believe it, but I think I convinced