A Pelican Pointe Christmas by Vickie McKeehan

Author:Vickie McKeehan [McKeehan, Vickie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-11-30T16:00:00+00:00

Colt slept until almost eight o’clock. He woke with Merlin peering down into his face while Deke scrambled to jump on the bed and proceeded to smack Colt’s cheek with his tongue.

“Stand down, guys,” he ordered as he tossed back the covers. “What do you say we get breakfast and go for a run on the cliffs, get rid of some of this energy?”

But as he got to his feet and stretched his back, he heard the pitter patter of raindrops hitting the tin roof. Looking out the window, he let out a groan. “Unless we want to get soaked, we’re stuck inside until it lets up.”

In the kitchen, he poured chow for the dogs and got coffee started. He was just about to dig out eggs and bacon from the fridge to make himself an omelet when someone banged on the door.

The dogs abandoned their dishes and set up a din.

“Shh. Quiet,” Colt directed, snapping his fingers to show he meant it.

Brent stood on the stoop wearing a uniform so wet it stuck to his skin. “Sorry to bother you, but that third frat boy who went on the run, I’ve got him out in the cruiser. There’s a problem.”

“What’s that?”

“Turns out, he is a she, and a young one at that.”

“What? That was no girl at the beach.”

“Are you certain? Because I found her inside the lighthouse. She’d been squatting there for some time. But she was wearing the same kind of clothes you described. With her hoodie up, I couldn’t even tell she was a girl until I got up close and arrested her. I need you to take a look and tell me if maybe you got it wrong.”

Colt grabbed his jacket and stepped out into the downpour. He went over to the SUV and looked through the rain-spotted window into the backseat. But it was too foggy to see anything on the other side. He opened the door and stared into a thin toffee face with huge brown eyes on the verge of tears. She was shivering in the cold. Instinctively, he took off his jacket and spread it around her bony shoulders. “Take this, you’re freezing.”

Colt turned to Brent. “This isn’t the loudmouth from the pier. Maybe it’s his girlfriend, although she looks way too young to be that. She couldn’t be more than twelve.”

“I’m nobody’s girlfriend,” shouted the young female. “And I’m almost thirteen!”

Colt sent Brent a sidelong glance. “You want to do this here or the police station?”

Brent threw open the driver side door and settled behind the wheel. “If that isn’t the person who was at the beach, I need to find the frat boy before he harms somebody. I have Snipes and Samuels locked up. That only leaves Galen Pierce.” He got on the horn to update Eastlyn with that information.

“What about the girl?” Colt asked. “Maybe she’s a runaway.”

“I’ll call Carla Vargas to deal with her then. She specializes in lost kids.”

But Colt had another idea. He shut the door on the patrol car and skirted the hood.

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