by Addison Fox
Parker Payne shrugged. “They should all be arriving soon.” Right now he was the only other person in the room, sitting at the other end of the long conference table from Woodrow. He seemed confident in his team, though, which should have eased Woodrow’s concerns.
Woodrow had called the meeting at the Payne Protection Agency, so he could explain why he’d hired a private security company to protect everyone involved in the trial of a local drug dealer.
Luther Mills was not just any drug dealer. He was the biggest drug dealer in Michigan. Hell, probably in the entire Midwest, and he was so rich and powerful that he could hire or threaten anyone into doing what he wanted. And Woodrow had recently learned that some of those people Luther had either bought or manipulated were within the police department and the district attorney’s office.
That was why he had hired the Payne Protection Agency. He was going to make sure that Luther Mills didn’t hurt anyone else and that he finally went to trial for his crimes.
But not everyone was going to be happy with having a bodyguard. The assistant district attorney, Jocelyn Gerber, was certainly not happy. She thought he was stupid for trusting the Payne Protection Agency—at least Parker Payne’s franchise of the agency—because every member of his team was a former vice cop. She suspected at least one of them could be working for Luther.
Of all his stepsons’ franchises, Woodrow had chosen Parker’s because of their connection to Luther Mills. He knew Parker and his team had tried for years to bring down Luther Mills, so he knew they would have a vested interest in making sure he was finally brought to justice.
But as Jocelyn had pointed out, they had tried for years with no success. She believed one of those former vice cops hadn’t just been working for the River City Police Department but for Luther Mills, as well.
Could she be right?
If she was, instead of protecting everyone associated with the trial, Woodrow had just put one of them in even more danger. Which one?
Copyright © 2021 by Lisa Childs
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ISBN-13: 9781488071522
Colton’s Covert Witness
Copyright © 2021 by Harlequin Books S.A.
Special thanks and acknowledgment are given to Addison Fox for her contribution to The Coltons of Grave Gulch miniseries.
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