Chapter 17
Kord
At first, Kord didn’t recognize the sound trying to break through the stunned feeling that rattled him after his encounter with Jimmy. Sitting in his kitchen, in the growing darkness of early evening, drinking coffee, Kord was distracted and edgy. After meeting with Jimmy, he’d worked on the case a while, but his heart and mind weren’t in it. His thoughts kept circling back to Jimmy, the kid’s motives, and Kord’s own feelings about the younger man. At some point he’d given up the work and gone home.
But the ringing cell phone finally broke through the haze and he glanced down at it. Doyle’s name and picture stared at him from the screen.
“What is it, babe?”
“I’ve b-been…attacked. I need you.”
Kord exploded out of his seat and ran out the door as he asked for Doyle’s l
