Faith was feeling oddly tired that day so she decided to call it a day around lunchtime. It wasn't like she was having any luck on the drug overdose case. According to other detectives in homicide it was just one in a growing number of drug ods hitting the county in the past few months. And all traced back to the same damn drugs.
Her uncle's drugs. Or maybe, she thought as she let herself into her apartment that felt so empty without Pamela, she should say her cousin Bullet's drugs. That fool was too reckless to be running anything. She was tempted to ring up Panther but decided not to. That shit right there would piss off her cousin and he had a bad temper. Only he didn't attack who he felt wronged him. He went after their loved ones. She knew he wasn't all about family like his father. She could so easily see him hurting her brother or Spencer to get at her. And then she would have to cut Bullet off at the balls.
She yawned and peeled off her leather jacket, letting it fall in an ungrateful heap to the carpeted floor. Then she saw her.
Melinda came striding up to her from the kitchen. She looked pissed as fuck. Her short spiky black hair looked like she had been tearing her fingers through it and her dark eyes were practically spitting fire.
" Velez, what the fuck are you doing here! ," she snapped.
" Where the fuck have you been! Why are you ignoring me! "
" Mel......"
That was all Faith got out before Melinda hauled off and punched her with a closed fist in the face. The blow was so unexpected that it knocked her back against the wall behind her. Her fingers instinctively reached for her service revolver in her side holster. Melinda grabbed at her hand. " Are you crazy , bitch! You hit me! "
Melinda said sharply," You want crazy? I'll show you crazy. Don't fucking ignore me again. I am your wife and I will not be ignored by you. "
The next hit that landed was in her eye and knocked her out unconscious on the floor.
Melinda looked down at her unsmilingly. " Now look what you made me do. "
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Odds of Love: Past Wounds
General FictionThe ongoing soap opera style serial about disabled math professor Spencer Norland -Lane, his doctor husband DuBuis Lane and their family and friends in the Washington DC metropolitan area.
