Beauty & The Beast (Book 1)

20. Grey

"The horse, Whiskers, is clean," Evan announces, walking into the station lobby where Tess is sitting at her desk going through notes. "No drugs were found in his system."

"But the girlfriend said Tommy was doping him?"

Evan grabs a chair and sits down next to Tess. "Well, the girlfriend is mistaken, or lying."

"Yeah and I'm looking into Tommy's financials, there's no money and there's no big purchases."

"Not much of a gambler."

"But he was leaving. He booked a plane ticket to Florida."

Evan grinned. "Maybe he just wanted to get away from the girlfriend."

Tess eyes him and he lifts his brows. She sighs. "Well, we've got a lying scorned girlfriend, we just need something to tie her to the crime scene."

Evan held up a finger. "I can mould some tire tracks from the alley?"

Tess gives him a look and he grins even wider.

She phones Cat to double check the make of the car and Cat tell her it's an Alfa Romeo then hangs up. Tess stares at the phone before putting it down and looking at Evan.
"I swear, I always thought when she disappeared she was with you."

Evan rolls his eyes and scoffs before he gets up and Tess goes with him to get the tracks.

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JT and Cat were waiting for the fingerprint results from CSU, JT mumbling and pacing behind her.
Tess phones her in the middle of her willing the results back, and asks if she remembers what car Clarissa drove. Clarissa? Then she remembers Lois's daughter. She tells Tess the make and hangs up. She was a little rude but she had to focus.

"What the hell was he thinking? After everything we've been through, after everything we've done," JT says, sitting down. Cat had her hands together, looking like she was praying, her eyes on the screen.

She drops her hands and glances sideways towards JT before she asks, "Are you ever afraid of him?"

JT's head turns her way. "What?"

"That he's gonna hurt you or - " She shrugs.

He shakes his head. "No. I've known him my whole life." He sighs. "I mean, he freaks me out when he's like that but he'd never hurt me."

Cat blinks. JT did know Vincent better than anyone else. He's lived with him like this for years. "How do you know?" She can't look at JT. He had undying faith in his friend, and she wasn't sure where she stood. She knew where she wanted to stand, but to get there....

"I just know."

They look at each other quietly. JT can see the war in her eyes. He doesn't know what she saw or what happened but he can tell she is in two minds over something.
Her phone beeps and they both jump.

"Have we got him?"

"One second," Cat says and types in the location into the GPS.

"I'm gonna have a heart attack right now," JT huffs.

"Okay, let's go!"

"Still gonna have a heart attack," he mumbles, rushing after her.

Vincent is already in shackles when Cat and JT pull up behind him.
He turns his head to look at the car as it stops. The other agents have their guns raised and Vincent growls.

"Well, look who it is," Tycell says.
"She just can't stay away," he sighs.

Vincent stares him down. "My terms."