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“And because he’s family. If someone I love reaches out to me and asks for help, I’ll do what I can. Just like you wanted back into the police. I gave you what you wanted, even though I think it’s a bad idea.”
A damn bad idea.
“Everyone believes it’s a bad idea. No one thinks I can handle it. I can. I was a cop…”
Lordy.
This man was like a stone wall.
You kept bashing your head on it to try and get through it.
“Tommy, you were chasing one killer. You were captain of Homicide for a few months. You’re offering up your intel to the FBI. That marks you. Don’t do it. From one Fed who sold her soul to this badge, it’s a bad idea. If everyone is telling you it’s crazy, we’re not all making this shit up. It’s crazy and going to get you killed.”
He hated that no one believed in him.
“Well, it’s too late. Axelle called me five minutes ago. She has a place set up for me to live out of, and I’m to go there and wait until she can wrap up the details getting me into play.”
She sighed.
And it was done.
This man…
He was walking into a shitstorm, and he wouldn’t have backup because The Hunters couldn’t blow their cover here in NOLA to save him.
No one could.
“Tommy.”
He spun around.
“Stop. I can do it. I’m more than just Gene’s piece of ass that he was marrying. I can be part of the whole and not just to bake goddamn cookies!”
She took that rage.
Oh, she understood it. As a woman, who was underestimated, she’d been made to feel that plenty of times, but she was a different breed.
Elizabeth survived because she adapted.
She’d killed.
This man was shiny like a penny. She was tarnished from the years of everyone gunning for her.
“No one thinks that about you,” she said. “We just think that this is a bad city to try that out in. Go anywhere else. I’ll help you find a job in California, Iowa, or even Pennsylvania. NOLA is a nightmare. It eats you up and spits you out in a dumpster in a piss-filled alley. Here is not the place to play those games.”
He blew that off.
Tommy wasn’t leaving.
Not now.
Not tomorrow.
Not ever.
This was his home, and now, he was even more determined to stay.
This was about vindication and proving a point to everyone who doubted he had a brass set.
