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Chapter One
Mace
“So.”
“So?”
Barracuda sank into the chair next to me and kicked his feet out in front of him. “So what the fuck are you going to do?”
That was the million-dollar question.
Four hours ago, I was bonded out of jail, and now I had to figure out how to get out of being charged with murder.
“You do it?” Barracuda asked.
I shook my head. “Kill him? No.”
Barracuda tipped his head to the side. “Have anything else to do with it?”
I shrugged and stuck a cigarette in the corner of my mouth.
Barracuda frowned and ran his fingers through his hair. “Why don’t you start at the beginning and tell me what the hell you did do.”
Going back fifteen years was something I never did.
I didn’t want to.
“I did what any other person would have done if they had been in my shoes.”
“And what the fuck was that?”
Barracuda was losing his patience, but I didn’t care. None of the guys knew about my past; that was how I wanted it to stay.
That was until Darrin Bing became mayor of Sutter Creek and forced the police department to open the cold case of his dead brother, Kent.
I always said fuck Kent Bing, but now I could add Darrin to the list of Bings who should rot in hell.
“You ever heard of Sutter Creek?” I asked.
Barracuda nodded. “About an hour from here, right?”
“Yup, that’s it. Right on down eighty-eight until you run right into it.”
“Small town. Never hear much about it.”
“Yeah, well, you’re right, though about fifteen years ago, Kent Bing wound up murdered, and they couldn’t figure out what happened to him and who did it. Made the news for a few days, but nothing ever came of it.”
“But you know what happened.”
I lit my cigarette and inhaled deeply. “Sure the fuck do,” I breathed out. “Imogen Parker knocked him upside the head with a two-by-four after he raped her, and I helped her with the body.”
“Fucking hell, Mace,” Barracuda sighed.
“I would have killed him, but Imogen beat me to it.” I never liked Kent Bing, but I didn’t have a reason to want the guy dead. At least not until he laid his hands on Imogen.
“So, now she is trying to pin it on you?”
I shook my head. “Not even close, brother.” I laughed flatly. “Kent Bing’s brother is now the mayor of Sutter Creek, and he’s coming for me with pitchforks up. Got one fucking fingerprint from me on the douchebag's shoe, and they are saying that makes me his killer.”
