(Joseph Bell - Haunted (Beyoncé cover)
MAC
A fast-living party boy with a crush…
Our past is anything but pretty; it is messy and cruel and why he was the one that makes my body hum and my heart want more… because it's a hot sizzling spark I couldn't ignore.
Netflix-And-Bickering wasn't exactly our new favorite pastime. Keeping our R rated hook-ups a secret wasn't that hard, hell it was even exciting.
There is more to Dick Casablancas than easy-going charm, wayward blonde hair and a mesmerizing touch. He's walking around looking ridiculously sexy, telling me I'm perfect in looking at me with bedroom eyes that melt everything off. What neither of us saw coming were the feelings that developed when the clothes come off. It took me off guard, he consumed me. There's no one else I could ever want.
Six weeks of bliss quickly turned into a hot mess. Those two little pink lines changed everything…
"What are you thinking about?" Parker asked as she held out a small cup of lukewarm soup in a plastic vending machine cup. They were helpless to do much more than wait on news from the doctors. University restrictions be damned… She wasn't leaving her friend alone right now.
How long had Dick been in surgery?
How long had Mac been sitting here rehashing old memories and mistakes that had led them to this point before little player number 3 had entered the game?
If you build your love on lies… you better run faster than the truth…
"Where's Logan?" the short brunette asked taking the small cup from her roommate.
Her grey eyes darting around the room, hypervigilance Parker guessed.
"He's not far, he's with Wallace talking to the Hearst acting administrator. Veronica came by a little while ago while you were sleeping, and I think she's gone with her dad to look around… Tim's place, seeing if they can catch any clues on how to find him," she explained.
Veronica walked around the shoe box apartment with her dad, there wasn't much personal here but there was a slew of different costumes, alias' and a DVD collection of Noir Detective movies and James Bond classics.
Time reveals all truths…
It was something her dad had repeated often during the Lily Kane murder investigation when the odd journalist wanted a soundbite during a slow news week.
There was no way around grief... only through... Logan needed to be with Mac and Dick right now... and she needed to be here...
A single spark could set the air on fire, there was so much combined intensity between the Mars duo as they tore apart each clue. Mortality took on a different meaning when you were 20 as opposed to 50, and what Tim Foyle had done to Eli Navarro, and what he'd tried to do to Mac when she carried more than gingerbread in the oven told Keith Mars that this was a dangerous individual, and that he was more than willing to let his daughter use all the arrows in the Mars quiver.
Evolution was survival of the fittest… just how adaptable was Tim Foyle really?
How easy would it be to escape a town so small it barely had its own zip-code?
"Asshole's gonna be living life like El Chapo," Deputy Myers snorted to Vinnie at the latest information from the Catalina Island security liaison.
Frowning Sheriff Mars took the tablet from the Deputy and skimmed over the details.
"A possible passenger matching Tim Foyles description was on the tourist ferry," he told Veronica who quickly took the tablet from her dad. "They are checking the manifests, passenger logs and using photo-recognition and the picture you faxed so we can rule out cruise liners. We've got the Neptune Department yacht fuelled up and San Diego PD is trying to get us a chopper out there, but there's no guarantee that we will get boots on the island and some of the commercial flights out have already left. If he's already in the air on his way to Mexico by the time we get there… there's nothing much we can do but hand the case over to the federal authorities."
They'd found the recordings on Tim Foyles hard drive from all his bugged devices, there were probably a few dirty conversations between her and Logan she should take time out later to remove from before her father's blushing ears found them.
She was a good girl… and if she wanted her fiancée to keep breathing.. she needed her dad to keep thinking that way.
The evidence so far pointed to the Alias Dave Bannion, named after the lead character in a 1953 movie The Big Heat where a police officer investigates the suicide of a rogue fellow officer, Tom Duncan, whose wife, Bertha Duncan says her husband had lately been in ill health.
Even his getaway inspiration wasn't original…. Well this is one hat-trick that asshole won't see coming.
"Actually… The main thing is to have the money. I've been rich and I've been poor. Believe me, rich is better," Veronica said quoting one of the characters from The Big Heat, Debbie Marsh pulling out her phone to dial Zoe Galen.
Surely she would know the whereabouts of her on-again/off-again boyfriend Nick O'Connell, Catalina Island's very own air marshall?
