Sandra Orchard - Emergency Reunion

“The park downtown?” Where psycho homeless guy hung out.

“Yeah, maybe. I hang there sometimes. It’s not like I go looking for him.” Eddie slurped his soup. “He finds me.”

Cole didn’t like the sound of that. “He finds you ?”

“Yeah, you know. We just kind of run into each other.”

Yeah, Cole could imagine the kind of places they ran into each other. If anyone had asked him seven years ago if there was a booming drug culture in Stalwart, he would’ve laughed. Now...he wasn’t so sure. “You hang out together?”

“No, but he knows what it’s like to, you know, need a fix.”

Needing to get his own fix on the guy’s whereabouts, Cole resisted the urge to point out that the guys at Teen Challenge knew, too, and cared a whole lot more about helping him. Eddie wasn’t ready to hear it yet.

“He sometimes gives me tips on where I can get stuff free,” Eddie went on.

“You mean steal it?”

Eddie shrugged again.

“What’s he drive?”

“Never paid attention.”

“But he does drive? He’s not some homeless guy living on the street?”

“He doesn’t look like one.” Eddie pushed away his empty soup bowl. “We done?”

Cole’s cell phone buzzed. He glanced at the screen. Zeke? He’d thought his partner would be happy to have another day off from being saddled with him. Probably calling to rub in that his nephew wouldn’t be taking a sick day if he were on the job. Cole held up a finger to signal Eddie to wait a minute and clicked Talk. “What’s up?”

“You know where your brother is?” Zeke’s voice grated. Why the sheriff had partnered Cole with the one guy who resented him filling the new opening, he’d never know.

“Here with me. Why?”

Eddie’s wary gaze snapped to his.

“You’re lucky. Dispatch just got a call of a savage dog attacking a female paramedic.”

Cole’s pulse jumped. Sherri was the only female paramedic in Stalwart. “Where? Is she okay?”

“I don’t know what her condition is. I’m on my way. So’s animal control. She’s at Line One near Third.”

“Thanks for letting me know.”

Zeke’s snort punctuated the click of him hanging up. Clearly his intention hadn’t been friendly.

Cole threw cash on the table and grabbed Eddie’s arm. “We’ve got to go.” Zeke may have taken his word that Eddie was with him, but he wanted Sherri to see it for herself.

“Me?” Eddie looked as if he thought Cole was taking him to a lynching—his.

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