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Chapter 10
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2021-01-05 09:15:29Once the adrenalin had worn off, Leila found herself exhausted. She dragged herself into her small apartment and ran a warm bath into the claw foot tub. The apartment had been designed for a soul occupant or a couple. It was one large room with a curtained off area that served as the bathroom. The bathroom sink was one of those antique deals that mounted directly into the wall with its metal plumbing exposed underneath. The bathroom walls were tiled with those white subway tiles and had a checkered floor. Shelves were built along the wall for storage.
The kitchen however had left the nineteen fifties behind and moved into the seventies. Dark brown cabinets, a green oven mounted between some of the cabinets. Green plastic laminate countertops, a small cooking range, and dingy linoleum flooring. At a yard sal
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Leila parked on the side of the street quickly and sprinted over to the house. She made it a great deal up the front path before Sheriff Thorne blocked her path with his wide girth and smug expression. “Miss Dupree, big surprise to see you here. But I can’t allow you to pass. We have executed a search warrant on your boyfriend’s property. So I suggest you turn around and return to your vehicle.” “Where is Sterling?” Leila asked.
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Leila said nothing about what had just happened in her truck and neither did Sterling. But he did give her a sweet grin before Zenia walked up to the truck. The girl had been on her cellphone and pacing the gravel lot in front of the bar. She didn’t sound happy when she hung up the phone. She stuck her head in the window of the truck. “Zanna won’t tell me shit. She said it’s too hard to talk about. She’s been praying nonstop for Clyde’s soul to go to Heaven. That’s a lost cause for fuckin’ sure.”
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Chapter 13 Leila couldn’t dwell on her dilemma, because Sterling’s very life was at stake here. She could figure out the other stuff later. This came first. “Could you at least stay long enough to look over our suspect list? And we still need to come up with a timeline of events that night,” said Leila to Zenia. Sterling broke his deep gaze with her. Did he actually look disappointed that she didn’t want Zenia to leave them alone? He slid his handwritten list to Leila. Her eyes scanned the names. No surprises, nearly all regulars. Forty or so names she knew of, though she didn’t know hardly any of them very well. “Alright,” Zenia conceded, “but I’m going to need another drink.” &n
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Chapter 14 Waiting to find an image of a killer turned out to be fairly anticlimactic and tedious, as Sterling had to scroll through over a year’s worth of images captured by the pond. It was a good thing Titus Mount had sprung for a top-of-the-line model with battery power lasting almost two years. Lots of patrons from the bar liked to fish at the pond. Leila began to be able to pick out the regulars and identify many of the faces. Henry Blaine and Frank Potter seemed to be the most avid fisherman in the group, but Amos Fox, and Gerald Travis had also cast many lines in. Amos and Henry often fished together it seemed, before the sun even peeked fully over the horizon. Occasionally, a whole family would be captured with their picnic baskets and fishing rods. Or a couple which had moseyed out of the bar for a moonlight walk at the water’s edge. Deliveries made to the bar came around the other side of the building opposite to the pond where the gravel path was wider to
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Chapter 15 Not that Leila didn’t enjoy being entangled in Sterling Mount, she had many fantasies surrounding him that had begun exactly like this, but at the present moment he was looking at her sternly, and there was work to be done. She freed herself from the solid, warm mass of him, and took a closer look at the cell phone in her hand. “Holy fuck! Nice work! Let’s get that shit in rice ASAP!” said Zenia. Beside her on the edge of the pond, Sterling maneuvered himself into a sitting position, before he placed a hand firmly on Leila’s shoulder, and forced her eyes to meet his. Despite the seriousness of the situation, she couldn’t help but notice the way his sodden t-shirt clung to his tight body. She also became aware how nearly transparent her own white sundress had become and was thankful she had chosen to wear a bra this morning. Well maybe, thankful anyway. “That was reckless and dangerous Leila! I appreciate your effort but promise me you won’t
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Chapter 16 Sterling moaned. A heady sound that made the wetness between Leila’s legs spread even more. His swollen lips reclaimed hers with a new vigor and his hands cupped beneath her ass to lift her feet off the ground. She wrapped her legs around his waist, could feel the swell of him. He carried her across the lot and towards the bar. Their lips scarcely parted as he pulled open the cracked back door with his foot. Sterling carried her towards the counter and set her against it. Leila had fantasized about this very thing countless times. He kissed and licked his way down her neck, taking delicate care to kiss every inch it seemed. She moaned in ecstasy while her hands slipped beneath his shirt, feeling every firm ridge, every dip, then lower, flirting with the hem of his pajama pants. This was really happening! Sterling Mount was about to take Leila on the bar just like she had so often fantasized. She was tempted to pinch herself, but if this was just a
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Chapter 17 Leila’s first call was to Gerald, but there was no answer. She left him a message with the number to her cell and asked him to return the call to her phone instead. Peggy was second on her list, but the old bag was rude and short. No, she would not be willing to meet with Leila this afternoon, as it was bingo night. Peggy got to the local catholic church bingo hall a couple hours early to chain smoke and gossip with the other old busybodies around Stillwater before the games began. And that was that. Leila had better luck when she rang up Kacey Jo. Kacey Jo worked part time at the Cut’ N’ Curl salon in Stillwater and promised to fit Leila in between her evening appointments. It was rumored she could also be found some nights dancing at the Stomping Ground gentleman’s club over in the next town called Sweet Water. Leila didn’t know the girl too well as they often worked alternative shifts and Kacey Jo only worked at the bar part-time. But
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Chapter 18 Leila emerged from the Cut’ N’ Curl and ran a hand over her “trim”. Kacey Jo had taken off at least four or five inches and cut it into choppy waves. Not that it looked bad, but Leila was accustomed to long hair that touched the middle of her back. It seemed men liked long hair on a girl to run their fingers through. She wondered what Sterling would think of her new hairdo. When she had first run away from the Blackwood pack, she’d considered trying to change her appearance. Had even dyed her hair for a while. But that was really pointless when your ex could track you by your scent. She still had the nightmares sometimes, even after two years, of what would happen if Ulric found her. His punishment would be severe, and then he would also turn her over to the pack when he was done with her. She would never have the chance to escape again, if she even survived the punishment of the pack in the first
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Sterling stood tall and awaited his fate without flinching. The picture of surrender and compliance. This was a fight he knew he wouldn’t win, and there was more than one way to fight, to win. He had faith that the truth would come out at his trial and he would be found innocent. Leila tried to keep that faith too and wondered, if he stood strong and proud while facing down the law, for her benefit as much as his. To reassure those he held near and dear in the bar that night that true justice would prevail in the end.But Sheriff Thorne had a wicked glint in his eye, one that unsettled Leila and spoke of violence. One she knew all too well. He postured like a man with a small grasp of power in his hands, one who craved more, and was willing to get it at any means necessary. Men like Thorne were a plague to society, tale as old as time, and would be its ultimate downfall. Leila had known many of his kind among the wolves in the Blackwood Pack.“Sterling Mount, you are under arrest for
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Leila should have been stunned, but she had heard versions of this before. The Sheriff had made claims that she’d been sleeping around with several men at the bar. But she was curious to hear this latest gossip on how Clyde’s death was her fault. Had Peggy fed this line to the Sheriff or had it been the other way around? Thorne had been insinuating Sterling had killed Clyde in a jealous rage because of Leila.Leila chuckled, “Let me hear it then Peggy. Go on. This town calling me a slut is nothing new because I don’t wear a wedding ring and don’t go to church, which neither do you come to think of it…But tell me why I’m the reason Clyde is dead?”The look on the shrew’s face was worth it alone. Peggy was insecure and jealous of Leila, and was probably the one who had spearheaded the smear campaign against the pretty young newcomer since Leila moved to Stillwater. Leila had never been overly flirty with anyone in the bar, except for Sterling, and had staved off all unwanted advances fr
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Leila arrived early for her five p.m. shift at the bar the next evening to see if an extra pair of hands was needed to help get the bar up in running. But she soon saw that Ster had everything in tip-top shape, the window Gary Kline had busted was replaced, the food prep done for the night ahead, the place shiny clean, and even the band’s equipment was in tune for their eight p.m. set.She still tried to make herself useful. Her boss grinned at her from behind the bar with a dazzling smile and came to meet her halfway when she walked in. But Sterling let Leila control how far they were willing to take this, especially with an audience present. Amos Fox was visible through the kitchen window as he readied for the dinner service. Leila didn’t know the fifty-something man well, but he always talked about his wife Glory. They’d been married longer than Leila had been alive and it was a long running joke around the bar that Glory couldn’t cook a lick and burned water.Amos was a loving but
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It wasn’t the warm, welcomed summer rain that sent Leila and Sterling indoors, as they lay naked and entangled in one another by the smoke of the dying out fire. Their passion for each other was not cooled by the rain or dampered by the smoke that curled around their still heaving bodies like the ivy that snaked up the side of Ster’s cottage. If anything, both Leila and her wolf were ready for round two, in fact she stole a kiss from his plump lips, and deepened the kiss when her tongue plunged into his mouth. He rose up to meet her kiss and the ferocity of her tongue stroke for stroke. One glance down between his muscled thighs told Leila all she needed to know. She threw a leg over his hip and made to straddle him. It wasn’t even the clash of thunder that parted the lovers, but rather the streaks of lightening reaching out across the inky sky. It touched down far too close to the ground for comfort. Thanks to her wolfblood, taking a lightening strike would likely only stun her, but
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After the young lovers roamed the places on each other once forbidden, the moon was high and bright in the sky, and Leila dizzy from his kisses, Sterling wet his lips as his fingers stilled at the hem of her dress. A question danced in his bright cerulean eyes. He waited for Leila to control where they took this new and beautiful thing forming between them. He was so careful not to press his weight down on her. So far, his touches and kisses had been almost chaste. But Leila wasn’t sure she wanted him to remain a gentleman tonight.The wolf inside her longed for him to tear her dress to shreds and devour her. Her human side wanted all the promises making love entailed, emotions and feelings which had been denied her since she gave her body to the first boy she’d loved. Since Miles, the times her body had been taken, and the times she’d shared it willingly had met a carnal need, but never anything beyond those basic primal urges. Tonight, she wanted to feel it all. Something that trans
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Leila was surprised how easy it was to carry on a conversation with her boss without Zen around to fill lingering silences or nudge the lovebirds into the right direction. Of course, now the man was so much more than just her boss to her. Looking back though, she realized Sterling Mount had always been more to her from the start. A friend when she needed it starting over in a new town with little money and no prospects. Never pressuring her like the others before him did and expecting her to sleep with him to show her gratitude Those friends had come with conditions. But the handsome bar owner had never expected anything in return for his good deeds of finding her housing and giving her a job. He was a good man and those were hard to find.They continued on with their flirty banter throughout their first course, and some of that nervousness dissipated like the ashes in the wind from the fire. Leila knew Sterling was also feeling more at ease and enjoying himself, if not for the smile
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Zenia dropped Leila off at her apartment with the explicit instructions to take the rest of the night off from sleuthing and focus on her date to come with Sterling. But that was easier said than done as thoughts of this mystery woman kept intruding in her head as Leila got ready for her date. Was this scorned woman the key to solving this case? The smoking gun they so desperately needed to save the man she loved from being accused of a crime he didn’t commit? Or would this motel hook up prove to be just another dead end or red herring?Leila replayed it all in her head as she showered, hoping to pick apart any clue she might have missed. It would be hard to locate this woman when they had so little to go on about her. Hopefully, they would learn more when Spencer contacted them about whatever data he was able to recover from the dead man’s phone. As Leila scrubbed herself pink, took a razor to every inch of her body, then doused herself in scented oils like she was christening hersel
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Leila and Zenia scoured the lot looking for guests, especially ones that looked like tenants. A man in a dark hoodie in the mid-July sun didn’t stop to even acknowledge them, which was probably for the best. He made a beeline across the cracked asphalt and disappeared into a room. It was likely he was about to take a hit of whatever he’d just scored. The sores Leila had seen on his face held credence to her theory. Meth and Heroin were the drugs of choice in these parts. Leila wasn’t as sensitive to the hot or cold since being turned, but even she began to feel like an egg frying on the pavement after twenty minutes of loitering around the rundown motel. She swatted at a mosquito and then it’s entire family it’d brought along to feast on her. Zen’s mood was deteriorating just as rapidly, especially when she stumbled on a pothole and about twisted her ankle. “Fuck this. I don’t want to catch hepatitis around here. I think this is a waste of time girl. Most of these people are asleep a
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“Well fuck,” muttered Zen, “but I can work with this.” “Good luck. Looks like a tough crowd. I’m guessing you didn’t need to bring the girls to the party after all,” grinned Leila. Both women shared a look before they walked deeper in the lobby with dingy, linoleum floors, dim lighting, and the smell of unchanged cat litter permeated the air. At least Leila thought the obnoxious odor was from cats, but there was the possibility it was human waste in nature drifting from the bathroom with an Employee’s only sign on the door. Some past its prime potpourri was in a glass bowl on the counter near a small display of local town attractions, which held about three brochures in total, boasting an outlet store, a pizza joint with a nineteen-fifties theme, and a bowling alley. Dust mites flitted through the air in the breeze from the open door, and possibly some cat fur, giving Leila more credence to her belief of a feline also living on the property. The clerk gave an irritated glance in the
