Landon: Justice Series ― Erotica Paranormal Romance by Kathi S. Barton Page A

twenty or so. The woman is his grandmother. The man—this is from his perspective—is feeling like he’s not getting anywhere with the younger one. He says that he needs to call his office. As he turns to do so, someone comes from his left and hits him with the business part of the maker…the part that holds the water, not the glass carafe. Then as he’s down, the same person uses the machine on his head over and over until it’s over. He dies.” The officer standing next to Dillon snorted. “You can believe me or not, buddy. I don’t give a rat’s ass. But I know what I know.”
    “You really expect us to believe that you’ve got this magical power to just touch something and it reveals all? Wow, you should go to all the murders with us, if that’s the case. We’d have them all wrapped up in no time.” The agent, Teddy Drake, told the man to be quiet. “You aren’t believing this, are you? What probably happened is she’s killed this man, if there is one, and now she wants to blame it on someone else. I think we should arrest her for making a false statement. We don’t have time for this bullshit.”
    When Dillon stood up, so did Steele. Kari could feel her panther run over her skin, and she laid Aster on the bed so she wouldn’t hurt her if she had to take action. But all that happened was that Dillon put her hand on the officer’s and he dropped to the floor. His scream was loud enough to bring the nurses and wake the baby. Kari decided right then and there that Dillon was going to be her newest best friend.
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    Teddy tried not to laugh every time he looked over at the officer. He’d pissed himself twice when Dillon had grabbed him, and was now nursing a bloodied nose he’d gotten from Steele when he went after his wife for laughing at him. Things for Dave Parker were not going so well right at the moment. And from what he’d just heard, they might not for some time to come. He looked at Dillon now and smiled at her.
    “Did you know what you’d find when you touched him?” When Dillon shook her head, he wasn’t sure she was telling him the whole truth. “I’m not going to attach your name to any of this. And since we never told him who you are, he’s not going to say anything either. Not if he knows what’s good for him.”
    “I only meant to scare him a little. What I got was...I had no idea what he’d done, but I knew that it had to be something bad the moment I touched him. He’s not very....” She let out a long breath. “He’s going to lose his job over this, isn’t he?”
    “To be sure. Even us retired guys, we know better than to steal the drugs from lock up and sell them to kids on the street. I thought for sure that you were going to tell me he’d killed this other man.” She shook her head. “But you know who it is, don’t you?”
    “Yes. The man was there to tell them about some insurance fraud. His name is...I don’t know for sure, but it sounds like Factory. I’m not always clear on all the details. The family he was talking to has the last name of something like Cotton. Again, that’s as close to it as I can get without touching one of them. And the one that did the deed, his name is Mike Collins. His name I know for sure, as my dead man touched him before he died. It doesn’t always work that way, but sometimes I get more than I bargained for.” Teddy was writing down information, but paused when she said the last name. “You know him?”
    “Michael Collins?” She nodded. “You’re sure about that? His name I mean? Because he’s dead. Or is supposed to be. Could that be the insurance fraud?”
    “I don’t know that. I do know that he is the one that killed the other man. His imprint was on the pot when I touched it. Not that it was precious to him, but he did use it for a crime.” Teddy knew that she was telling him the truth, and he knew the man that had been killed as well. “I can get you more details, I guess, if I can touch the machine again.