The Devil Within (Devil Series Book 3) Read Online Free PDF

intersection. “We know something’s up.”
    Penelope held on to her seatbelt. “Let’s just hope it has something to do with our case.”
    * * * *
    “Now wait a minute.” Alexis drove along the dilapidated street toward Soviet Avenue fifteen minutes later. She stayed far enough behind where she hoped Blake couldn’t see them. “Is it me or is it too much of a coincidence that we’re in the same area where Alicia was found dead?”
    Penelope leaned up in the seat. “Let’s hope this leads us to a break.”
    Alexis followed Blake to the abandoned strip mall and parked on the street where Blake couldn’t see them.
    Blake wasn’t in the parking lot a minute before a shiny black Corvette came and parked beside her.
    “That’s Danny’s car,” Penelope said.
    Blake got out of her car and got in his.
    Alexis started the car. “They might be going somewhere else.”
    “No.” Penelope touched Alexis’s hand. “I think they’re just talking.”
    Alexis turned the car off.
    Blake moved her head and hands back and forth as if she were explaining herself.
    Danny waved his finger and screamed in Blake’s face.
    “Whoa,” Alexis said. “That conversation doesn’t look too friendly, does it?”
    “Hell no.” Penelope put her hand on the door. “Danny looks pissed.”
    “You think he’s the one who’s been beating on her?”
    Penelope’s gaze stayed on the two. “Shit, no telling.”
    “Let’s analyze this, shall we?” Alexis counted on her fingers. “We got Blake, who is supposedly friends with Nadine and Alicia.”
    Penelope nodded. “She claims she doesn’t know where Nadine is yet she was acting suspicious.”
    Alexis gripped the steering wheel. “She has a bruise on her face and a lame excuse as to why. She gets a call from a known criminal and meets him out in a strip mall only a few blocks from where Alicia Bellows was found murdered.” She grinned. “I don’t know about you, Penelope, but this is enough for me to think Miss Blake Maddox knows more than she lets on.”
    * * * *
    Alexis pulled up to Blake’s a few seconds after Blake made it back home. She and Penelope got out and walked up the driveway.
    Blake got out of the car, cursed, and stared at the detectives.
    “What is this?” She slowly closed the car door. “Were you following me?”
    “Yes,” Alexis said. “You want to come clean with us now?”
    “I don’t know what you’re talking about. I told you I don’t know what happened to Alicia and I don’t know where Nadine is.”
    “How long you been hanging around Danny X?” Penelope asked.
    “Danny?” Blake brushed loose hairs from her face. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
    “Don’t do this, Blake.” Alexis waved her hand back and forth. “We
    followed you to the strip mall on Soviet Avenue and we saw you talking to Danny X.”
    “Yeah, and Danny X is not the type of guy you just shoot the breeze with and not have something illegal going on.” Penelope crossed her arms. “Right now you look suspicious as hell, and unless you tell us something to appease our doubts…we have a feeling you’re involved in Alicia’s murder.”
    “I’m not!” She shook her purse. “I swear. I loved Alicia. I’d never hurt her.”
    “What’s going on, Blake?” Alexis asked. “You need to tell us the truth.”
    * * * *
    “I have no business telling you this.” Blake paced up and down her living room floor. “But I will if it might help find Alicia’s killer.”
    Alexis readied her notepad and pencil to write. “What is it?”
    “You’ve got to promise me you won’t tell anyone. I could get in a lot of trouble if Danny finds out I told.”
    “We just want to get to the bottom of this murder.” Alexis crossed her legs at the ankles. “We’re not interested in anything else.”
    Blake closed her eyes and exhaled. “Alicia, Nadine, Mercy, and I are underground fighters.”
    Alexis stuck her neck out. “Excuse me?”
    “We’re boxers.” Blake